Re: [Wiki-offline-reader-l] [openZIM dev-l] [Argentina] WikiBrowse improvements

Hi Jimbo, we decided at Wikimania that general Wikipedia Offline discussion will be moved to offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org. Individual mailinglists for the projects working on that still exist like dev-l(a)openzim.org for the ZIM file format or wikireader(a)laptop.org of OLPC. Concerning project status: openZIM has defined a stable ZIM format version 4 beginning this year and implemented the most part of it as a sample / reference implementation. This contains a C++ library used in some products such as Kiwix and derivates (such as MoulinWiki). In Summer 2009 we published a DVD with the whole German Wikipedia (900k articles in 1.3 G) as a demonstration release. http://openzim.org/2009-06-23_Wikipedia_DVD Just a week ago we had our second developers meeting and defined a (hopefully last) stable version 5 of ZIM. http://openzim.org/2009-11-23_Report_Developers_Meeting_2009-2 (report not yet ready) A new software branch has been created and we are working now on the implementation. This version will have some additional features that are mostly not crucial, but very helpful for more powerful readers and - in contrary - some improvements for very small devices. But these improvements on memory footprint and cpu power are more based on implementation than on the format itself. Tomasz Finc participated at the Developers Meeting we just had, he can give you a direct overview and answer your question personally. He will help us to set up the regular ZIM export for download.wikimedia.org. Some words from me at Wikimania can be seen here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:200908271434-Manuel_Schneider-openZI… Greets, Manuel Jimmy Wales schrieb: -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch