Hello, everyone.
As Manuel mentioned some time ago, I'm from Wikimedia Israel, and we're
interested in trying the OpenZIM tools for a static version of the Hebrew
Wikipedia we are working on, for inclusion in the Israeli government's One
Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
So far, I've been able to compile and run all the tools, but am having some
trouble creating ZIM files: I've dumped a locally-loaded Mediawiki
installation to HTML using these instructions <http://openzim.org/Wiki2html>,
but when I try to run the builZimFileFromDirectory.pl script, I get silly
postgresql errors about failing to connect using "kiwix" user. I should
probably create a user, or a database, or both, but I've never used
postgresql (I use mysql), and despite trying some combinations of commands
to create a 'kiwix' user, with and without a password, couldn't get the
DBI::connect call to succeed. I am sure you are all familiar with
postgresql and can give me a quick pointer on how to proceed. I'm using a
modern unstable Debian box, with a default packager-supplied installation of
postgresql and the related Perl DBD module.
Thanks in advance,
Asaf Bartov
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Dear Friends!
LinuxTag will take place on June 24th to 27th. As I have informed you earlier
on this list we have successfully applied for a booth there.
Now we have to plan our attendance there.
Please see our planning page:
http://openzim.org/LinuxTag_2009
Put yourself on the list, indicating when you plan to be there. I will have to
order exhibitor tickets in advance for you and organise accommodation.
Please also state if you agree with sharing a room or if you want to have a
single room. I will try to book at Sunflower Hostel which is quite nice and
cheap (near S Wahrschauer Strasse / Ostbahnhof). But we will have to book
asap as the rooms might already be occupied (remember: A lot of young people
are getting to Berlin during LinuxTag, looking for cheap accommodation).
If you want to bring something for the booth (notebook, something to show...)
please list it in the Material List and help us defining contents we want to
see on our posters and Flyers.
Also give your vote if we should get T-Shirts or not.
Thank you for your quick response,
Manuel
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
Le dim 17/05/09 23:15, "Tommi Mäkitalo" tommi(a)tntnet.org a écrit:
> I got the dump from Josch and made a zim file out of it. Also I
> successfully created a index file. The article file can be downloaded at
> http://openzim.org/download/wikipedia-de.zim and the
> index file at http://openzim.org/download/wikipedia-de-x.zim.
I have tested the first file with Kiwix and it works although the rendering ist not really clean.
IMO we will have to take a little bit time at the Linuxtag, if I come, to see if something is wrong.
> Unfortunately I just hit a bug in the search engine. I don't know yet, if
> this is a bug in the indexer (and though in the index file) or the search
> engine. I have to make further investigations.
>
> Still the article file should be ok.
Great... and it seems that you have catch this bug yesterday ;)
> Tasks for me to do for the DVD are:
> - make the zimreader functional (it currently does not compile, but it
> should be no major problem
> - create a main page, where to start (if someone is willing to do that, it
> would be welcome)
>
> For the main page I decided to write an article about our project, our
> plans and the linux tag 2009 DVD. Also a short introduction how to use the reader
> should be included.
>
> An open issue is still the list of authors. Yesterday I was in a book shop
> and saw a wikipedia book with about 50000 selected german articles. It just
> listed all authors in a appendix. Looks like it would be enough, if we add a file
> (or a article in the zim file) on the DVD with this list. I just need that
> list. Tommi
Ok, the situation is more or less the same on my side:
* I have released the first betat of Kiwix 0.8 yesterday : http://tmp.kiwix.org/bin/kiwix-0.8-beta1+xulrunner.tar.bz2
* A new optimized released of the ZIM file in english : http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_alpha6.zim
This is not perfect... but should be functionnal and without big bug.
For this reason, I think these releases are the one for the LinuxTag DVD (if we have enough place for the ZIM).
Questions:
* What is the deadline for the ISO?
* Where is the architecture of the DVD?
* Do we have to upload something ? where?
Regards
Emmanuel
Le ven 22/05/09 00:30, "Federico Leva" federicoleva(a)tiscali.it a écrit:
> I would know how I can help you (and Emmanuel) to develop the software
> (openZIM + GUI reader application like Kiwix), and how long it will
> take.
Essential would be for me to know what you want in term of software and selection.
About Kiwix, I assume you have tested it with the demo ZIM file in Italian, so you shhould know what is currently possible:
* more or less pertinent selection of articles
* Rendering like online with thumbnails
* simple gui software (all in one) with search engine
Main problem:
* No Windows/Mac support (libzim+Kiwix have to be ported)
If you want to know more, I propose to you to join #kiwix on freenode.
Regards
Emmanuel
Hey folks,
as we are getting tons of users soon and they all need to report bugs I just
set up an instance of bugzilla with the great help of Thomas!
http://bugs.openzim.org/
Have much fun squashing bugs!
Cheers,
Manuel
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
Dear ZIM Freaks,
I have released yesterday the first Kiwix selected collection of articles issued from the Wikipedia in spanish:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_es_kiwix_30000+_05_2009_alpha1.zim
Infos:
* ~ 30.000 articles
* ~1.4 GB
* All pictures as thumbnails
* All featured articles and good articles and other articles are selected with my selection script.
* First ZIM realised with an optim. which allows to only have one exemplar of each picture (~8% weight gain)
This file being pretty light... the next alpha version will be done with at least twice more articles.
I do not know how much interest you have for such "alpha release mail info"... but I think people, which are not necessarily interested in the dev, may want to be kept update about new ZIM files. We should maybe have a place to make such infos more public. An Atom/RSS feed would be great in my opinion to do that... but I do not have any proposition now about how to achieve that (blog soft ? planet ? Mediawiki ?)
Feedback are like always Welcome.
Regards
Emmanuel
Le ven 22/05/09 00:06, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch a écrit:
> At Wednesday, May 27th I will have a phone call with Pascal Martin and his
> colleagues from Linterweb about the future cooperation between Linterweb
> and openZIM.
>
> Pascal is the CEO of Linterweb.
>
> Linterweb started using libzeno in 2008, before openZIM was found. As there
> was no project and due to that no team or source code repository they
> improved and developed their own patches for libzeno.
> Since then a re-integration of Linterweb's work into openZIM is due.
>
> I hope that we will be able to fix that soon. Linterweb is still working
> with their version of libzeno as they have some features in there which did not
> go into our source code and are thus not in libzim.
>
> In my last mail to this list I forwarded the Linterweb version of libzeno
> and ask you to review that and see how we can integrate that.
> I appreciate your feedback until Wednesday.
Good news too.
ML and Bugzilla are waiting their inputs!
For the patches done in the past, I have already make comments and Tommi is any case the key person.
Emmanuel
Hallo Manuel,
In December, I have get two things from Linterweb:
* Code of the ZIM access part for Kiwix
* Patched libzeno.
I have take a look to the first thing, but abandon the code and rewrited it fully (In fact I rewrited fully Kiwix).
For the second part, Tommi posted a pretty argumented email weeks ago:
https://intern.openzim.org/pipermail/dev-l/2009-April/000022.html
About SVN access, my opinion is not as important as Tommi's one, but I would prefer that only people which have already proposed a few quality patches get access to the SVN...
Regards
Emmanuel
Le jeu 21/05/09 23:21, "Manuel Schneider" manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch a écrit:
> Tommi and Emmanuel,
>
> please have a look into the attachments. This is the patched code of
> libzeno
> from Linterweb. It should run on Windows and fixe some bugs in the
> library as
> well as in the reader.
>
> Pascal, which is on this list, might want to explain it if needed.
>
> Please see if you can integrate that into our current SVN, gaining
> us the
> impovments of Linterweb and enable them to use our current SVN code
> for their
> further development.
>
> I would prefer it if Linterweb had commit access to our subversion.
>
> Please give your comments on this list about this code. If there is
> any reason
> not to use it please explain why.
>
> Greets,
>
> Manuel
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>
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Great, I was always reporting bugs, making remarks or asking question directly to Tommi.
This will now more easy to manage and keep an archive of such request.
Thank you
Emmanuel
Le ven 22/05/09 01:32, "Manuel Schneider" manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch a écrit:
> Hey folks,
>
> as we are getting tons of users soon and they all need to report bugs I
> just set up an instance of bugzilla with the great help of Thomas!
>
> http://bugs.openzim.org/
> Have much fun squashing bugs!
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Manuel
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Dear Federico,
you have here the contact for the project openZIM.
The main contact is Manuel Schneider (manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch)
and the group of developers can be contacted with the address
(dev-l(a)openzim.org).
Manuel can clarify you the status of the project.
Federico Leva is member and treasurer of the board of Wikimedia
Italia. Wikimedia Italia is looking for a new solution for the CD of
offline edition of it.wikipedia and would have a look in OpenZIM to
investigate if this solution can match the requirements of Italian
board.
Wikimedia Italia seems to be interested also to support the project
like Wikimedia CH is doing.
I have received from Manuel also the notification that some tests are
not in progress due to the overload of work, but I think that Federico
could help you to found some testers.
Ilario Valdelli
Wikimedia CH