Hey all -<br><br>Also, here is a deck we talked through at WIkimania regarding offline. Hopefully there will be some slides that help! Ping me (or Emmanuel or Manuel) with questions :)<br><br>Jessie<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Alex Wafula <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xelawafs@yahoo.com">xelawafs@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hey Steve, forgot to mention this to you yesterday, we managed to have the talk set for Saturday instead of tomorrw as you guys had suggested.</span></div>
<div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Emmanuel, thanks for the slides!</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>//alex</span></div><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></b></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>Emanuel,<br><br>Thank you for the info. we will be presenting this tomorrow.<br><br>once again, thank you.<br>
<br>cheers,<br>Steve<br><br>On 9/1/11, <a href="mailto:emmanuel@engelhart.org" target="_blank">emmanuel@engelhart.org</a> <<a href="mailto:emmanuel@engelhart.org" target="_blank">emmanuel@engelhart.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Here my slides:<br>><br>> Slide1: Steps to go offline<br>> * Select articles<br>> " Select for each article a revision (optional)<br>> * Prepare welcome pages with explanation, indexes, …. (optional)<br>
> * Build a ZIM file<br>> * Get the ZIM file and a ZIM reader<br>><br>> Slide2: Select articles and revision<br>> * Trivial solution: list articles in a category, a project, ...<br>> * Sophisticated solution: WP1.0<br>
> * Wikitrust may help to get the right revision<br>><br>> Slide3: Build a ZIM file<br>> * Two solutions currently<br>> * Hacked Mediawiki DumpHTML extension + additional scripts<br>> ** Complicated, only people at Kiwix use it<br>
> ** Big ZIM files (<a href="http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/" target="_blank">http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/</a>)<br>> ** Higher quality<br>> * Mediawiki Collection extension<br>> ** Easy for everyone, available online on WMF Web sites<br>
> ** Only small ZIM<br>> ** Lower quality<br>><br>> Slide4: What is openZIM?<br>> * Define a free format (ZIM)<br>> * Reference Implementation (zimlib & zim tools)<br>> * Highly compressed and really fast access time<br>
> * Community project created 3 years ago<br>> * Independent of any readers (Kiwix, wikionboard)<br>> * <a href="http://www.openzim.org" target="_blank">http://www.openzim.org</a><br>><br>> Slide5: Next?<br>
> * Improvement of readers<br>> * More readers for smartphones/tablets<br>> * Simplification/Improvement of the ZIM creation process<br>> * Deployment of
big ZIM creation tools at the WMF<br>> * More ZIM files, also for non-WMF wikis<br>><br>> Emmanuel<br>><br>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:53:03 +0300, stephen wanjau wrote:<br>>> Emmanuel,<br>>><br>
>> Thank you for coming in.<br>>><br>>> *I would suggest that you highlight on the general steps/process<br>>> involved in creation of a ZIM file. (For very detailed topics I<br>>> propose we give links on the slides for those who would like to know<br>
>> more)<br>>> e.g. For the one we are about to compile for the Kenyan curricula,we<br>>> were requested to create a list on a meta page of the missing topics<br>>> with the corresponding link to an existing article on Wikipedia,then<br>
>> from there I think you guys at the openzim project shall compile that<br>>> then have the downloadable copy availed.<br>>><br>>> * Could you shade more
light on what goes on in between having the<br>>> topics from us and having the downloadable version online?<br>>><br>>> *Also,Kindly avail some information regarding the origin of the<br>>> openzim project,objectives,some merits and future prospects.<br>
>><br>>> *I think six slides for the openZim project shall do us good.(any<br>>> other suggestions are also welcome)<br>>><br>>> And keep up the good work.<br>>><br>>> Truly,<br>>> Steve<br>
>><br>>> On Aug 26, 2011 11:06 AM, wrote:<br>>>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:21:47 +0200, Manuel Schneider wrote:<br>>>>> On <a href="tel:26.08.2011%2009" value="+12608201109" target="_blank">26.08.2011 09</a>:18, Alex Wafula wrote:<br>
>> >>> I'll loop in Manuel in a new thread regarding the best info to<br>>>>>> present on Openzim and an overview of creating ZIM files.<br>>>>><br>>>>> what you need to
know?<br>>>><br>>>> Yes, this is the point: especially how many slides? how detailed ?<br>>> > Topics?<br>>>><br>>>> ZIM file generation is a wide topic.<br>>>><br>
>>> I made the ZIM files (available here<br>>> <a href="http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9" target="_blank">http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9</a> [2])<br>>>> with scripts developed on my own (using as core tool, openZIM<br>
>> > zimdbwriter binary).<br>>>> So I may also help if details are needed or if you want more<br>>>> informations about the next developments I plan for 2012 in this<br>>> area.<br>>>><br>
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