Hi,
I want to inform you that Wikimedia CH has again decided to sponsor
openZIM and has approved our full budget of 9'000 EUR for 2010.
For more information and updates on spendings see
Side note: Erik Möller, Deputy Director of Wikimedia Foundation, has
offered to match the spendings of Wikimedia CH on the openZIM budget
through the Chapters Grants program.
I want to thank Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia Foundation for the generous
support of the openZIM project!
Happy Easter!
/Manuel
Am 24.03.2010 12:03, schrieb emmanuel(a)engelhart.org:
Hi,
Le mer 24/03/10 08:13, "Manuel Schneider"
manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch a écrit:
I have to admit that I currently have no idea
where there are problems
with LTR - I always thought of ZIM just being a container - it doesn't
process the data you put into it. SO if you put in LTR text you will get
out LTR text again.
I though the same thing ;)
What we would need though is a
hebrew/arab/yiddish... stemmer for the
fulltext search index creation and of course support on the reader
application. But this is Kiwix (which as far as I know supports LTR
because it was used by MoulinWiki) or the webbrowser when using
zimreader.
I have ZIM files in Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi and as far as I know they
are
no specific issues related to these languages in Kiwix nor in the
zimlib. Asaf, if
you have such bugs, the best is to open a ticket in the appropriate
bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.openzim.org/Main_Page or
http://bugs.kiwix.org
About the stemming, Xapian (used by Kiwix) has no solution for these
languages... this would
be a pretty good idea to have a grant for that (at least one language).
Emmanuel
PS: Asaf, what about my Invitation to meet Reg from Moulinwiki in
Tel-Aviv?
Manuel
Am 23.03.2010 23:55, schrieb Asaf Bartov:
> I may have mentioned this before, but I'll state it again:
>
> Wikimedia Israel has set aside funds (on the order of $3000) to support
> development of OpenZIM. We hope to encourage work on the specific
> issues that still hamper successful deployment of right-to-left
> Wikipedia (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Yiddish), and I
> was hoping to discuss the specifics with Manuel and whoever else
> will be
> attending the upcoming conference in Berlin.
>
> Asaf