Hi Ted,
Asaf has forwarded me your mail to internal, I will answer it here
because I think it belongs to this list.
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From: *Ted Chien* <hsiangtai.chien(a)gmail.com
<mailto:hsiangtai.chien@gmail.com>>
Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:54 PM
Just read through the OpenZIM wiki and wondering what
I can do as an
mobile developer....
openZIM actually provides two things:
* a file format, standard, to store compressed wikis (and other web
data) -> ZIM
* an open source implementation of ZIM, currently available in C++ from
our SVN
-> see
http://openzim.org/Mission_of_openZIM
If you are a mobile developer you could be interested in developing a
ZIM reader on your favourite platform, eg. the iPhone or Android.
-> see also
http://openzim.org/Google_Sommer_of_Code_2010
As far as you can use libzim which is written in C++ and gives you an
interface to retrieve contents from ZIM files easily, you just need to
create some GUI that allows a user to select (open) a ZIM file, a search
window and a HTML viewer window which actually displays the selected
content.
There is a ZIM reader on Symbian, WikiOnBoard:
-> see
http://github.com/cip/WikiOnBoard
It uses our zimlib and Qt for the GUI. It works very well on my Nokia E71.
We are planning to have a Developers Meeting in Haifa next year, during
the Hacking Days prior to Wikimania. It is not decided yet as we have to
assign most of our yearly budget to it, but we will take the decision on
our next Developers in October and I am confident that the team agrees
with it.
This would be a good opportunity to bring more technical-related people
together to get actually things done.
Another open construction site are the works on the Extension:Collection
to integrate a ZIM export there. This would make the process to create
ZIM files much easier.
If you'd like to discuss ZIM related technical issues I recommend doing
this in dev-l(a)openzim.org while general offline discussions should
happen here.
Regards,
Manuel
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
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