I had a discussion with Roan concerning "wikizim", the tool that creates a ZIM
file from a whole wiki by using the API.
His idea was to integrate the parser and the relevant wikizim code to make a dumping tool
with less overhead, suitable for the Wikimedia static dumps. I have pointed him to the
relevant code in the openZIM SVN, but the discussion has been interrupted by the MW 1.17
release he had to work on.
Yeah, Roan is going to have zero to no time for working on that. I have a couple of other
people in mind at WMF who could help but if there are any community devs that want to help
out then I'd love to get them started.
Additionally Jessie Wild from the Wikimedia Foundation was in contact with me concerning
a strategical Wikimedia Offline meetup, somewhere before Wikimania. I am in favour of that
and would recommend to do this as apart of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, before the
chapters meeting on 25th - 27th.
Looks like the Dev conference is going to be moved to later on in the year so we'll
have to re-evaluate times. Either way though we should find a time to do it.
--tomasz