Hi Tomasz, thank you for the information about current happenings. What I'm especially interested in are the technical limitations, the offline Wikipedia team has. What are these technical limitations? Is there anything where I can help. Recently I created a tool, which just grabs all articles from a running mediawiki using the api and creates a zim file out of it. No indirection through files or database any more. That was really easy. The tool is not really finished yet since it needs to rewrite links to point to the zim file to be really usable, but that is easy to do e.g. using regular expressions. If I know, how you plan to create the zim files, I may create a tool, which makes that as smooth as possible. Tommi

Hi Tomasz, thanks for the heads-up. It is very exciting to see things evolve on a broad front now. Am 08.01.2011 01:54, schrieb Tomasz Finc: I have added this to * http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2011-1#Agenda because I hope that we meet all involved persons there. This is now also on the agenda of Wikimania / Dev. Meetup. Renaud Gaudin who is working on Kiwix as a contractor will - as far as discussed with Emmanuel - be part of that meeting. 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. 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. I would appreciate it if you could talk to Roan and Jessie to keep them and us in the loop. Maybe we should move part of the discussions - as suggested by Jessie - to offline-l, when everyone interested in general strategical Offline discussions is subscribed there (to not to clog the developer mailing lists and still avoid private mailings which always leaves someone out). /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch