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Emanuel,

Thank you for the info. we will be presenting this tomorrow.

once again, thank you.

cheers,
Steve

On 9/1/11, emmanuel@engelhart.org <emmanuel@engelhart.org> wrote:
>  Here my slides:
>
>  Slide1: Steps to go offline
>  * Select articles
>  " Select for each article a revision (optional)
>  * Prepare welcome pages with explanation, indexes, …. (optional)
>  * Build a ZIM file
>  * Get the ZIM file and a ZIM reader
>
>  Slide2: Select articles and revision
>  * Trivial solution: list articles in a category, a project, ...
>  * Sophisticated solution: WP1.0
>  * Wikitrust may help to get the right revision
>
>  Slide3: Build a ZIM file
>  * Two solutions currently
>  * Hacked Mediawiki DumpHTML extension + additional scripts
>  ** Complicated, only people at Kiwix use it
>  ** Big ZIM files (http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/)
>  ** Higher quality
>  * Mediawiki Collection extension
>  ** Easy for everyone, available online on WMF Web sites
>  ** Only small ZIM
>  ** Lower quality
>
>  Slide4: What is openZIM?
>  * Define a free format (ZIM)
>  * Reference Implementation (zimlib & zim tools)
>  * Highly compressed and really fast access time
>  * Community project created 3 years ago
>  * Independent of any readers (Kiwix, wikionboard)
>  * http://www.openzim.org
>
>  Slide5: Next?
>  * Improvement of readers
>  * More readers for smartphones/tablets
>  * Simplification/Improvement of the ZIM creation process
>  * Deployment of big ZIM creation tools at the WMF
>  * More ZIM files, also for non-WMF wikis
>
>  Emmanuel
>
>  On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:53:03 +0300, stephen wanjau wrote:
>> Emmanuel,
>>
>> Thank you for coming in.
>>
>> *I would suggest that you highlight on the general steps/process
>> involved in creation of a ZIM file. (For very detailed topics I
>> propose we give links on the slides for those who would like to know
>> more)
>>  e.g. For the one we are about to compile for the Kenyan curricula,we
>> were requested to create a list on a meta page of the missing topics
>> with the corresponding link to an existing article on Wikipedia,then
>> from there I think you guys at the openzim project shall compile that
>> then have the downloadable copy availed.
>>
>> * Could you shade more light on what goes on in between having the
>> topics from us and having the downloadable version online?
>>
>> *Also,Kindly avail some information regarding the origin of the
>> openzim project,objectives,some merits and future prospects.
>>
>> *I think six slides for the openZim project shall do us good.(any
>> other suggestions are also welcome)
>>
>> And keep up the good work.
>>
>> Truly,
>>  Steve
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2011 11:06 AM,  wrote:
>>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:21:47 +0200, Manuel Schneider wrote:
>>>> On 26.08.2011 09:18, Alex Wafula wrote:
>>  >>> I'll loop in Manuel in a new thread regarding the best info to
>>>>> present on Openzim and an overview of creating ZIM files.
>>>>
>>>> what you need to know?
>>>
>>> Yes, this is the point: especially how many slides? how detailed ?
>>  > Topics?
>>>
>>> ZIM file generation is a wide topic.
>>>
>>> I made the ZIM files (available here
>> http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9 [2])
>>> with scripts developed on my own (using as core tool, openZIM
>>  > zimdbwriter binary).
>>> So I may also help if details are needed or if you want more
>>> informations about the next developments I plan for 2012 in this
>> area.
>>>
>>> Emmanuel
>>>
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