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[openZIM dev-l] [Bug 18] New: debian needs an init.d script
by bugzilla-daemon＠openzim.org 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18 Summary: debian needs an init.d script Product: openZIM Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: zimreader AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org ReportedBy: andyr(a)wizzy.com CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org Estimated Hours: 0.0 One attached. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.openzim.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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[openZIM dev-l] [Bug 26] New: CRC check
by bugzilla-daemon＠openzim.org 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26 Summary: CRC check Product: openZIM Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P3 Component: zimlib AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org ReportedBy: emmanuel(a)engelhart.org CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org Estimated Hours: 0.0 Downloaded ZIM files are unfortunately not always fully valid at the end of the download stage. Consequently users may have a bad user experience without having a chance to easily check if the file is valid. It would be great to provide in the zimwriter/zimlib a way to check the zim file integrity easily. A way to achieve that could be: * At the end of the ZIM file creation process (file is created) compute and append at the end of the file a CRC (md5sum, sha1) * In the zimlib add a method checkIntegrity() or something similar able to compute the CRC from the file (excepting the CRC hash at the end) and make the comparison. Hash algorithm should be fast and reliable (md5?). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.openzim.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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[openZIM dev-l] [Bug 29] New: SVN r333 does not always compile
by bugzilla-daemon＠openzim.org 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29 Summary: SVN r333 does not always compile Product: openZIM Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P5 Component: zimlib AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org ReportedBy: emmanuel(a)engelhart.org CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org Estimated Hours: 0.0 On one of my computer (old Ubuntu Hardy x86_32) the zimlib trunk does not compile anymore. In fact the configure script fails: configure: creating ./config.status config.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile.in See the log: http://www.kiwix.org/tmp/config.log The problem was introduced with r333, with r332 it works. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.openzim.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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[openZIM dev-l] [Bug 30] New: zimdump -d fails on x86_32 with big ZIM files
by bugzilla-daemon＠openzim.org 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30 Summary: zimdump -d fails on x86_32 with big ZIM files Product: openZIM Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: critical Priority: P5 Component: zimlib AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org ReportedBy: emmanuel(a)engelhart.org CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org Estimated Hours: 0.0 Using zimdump SVN r328 on Ubuntu Hardy x86_32. Using the following file: http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/wikipedia_es_all_09_2010_beta1.zim If get the following error: $zimdump -D html wikipedia_es_all_09_2010_beta1.zim error 22 seeking to -2147469848 in file wikipedia_es_all_09_2010_beta1.zim: Invalid argument $ echo $? 254 This error does not occurs under x86_64. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.openzim.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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[openZIM dev-l] Fwd: [Devnations-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Proposed Wikimedia Project in Kenya
by Manuel Schneider 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hi, I'd like to forward the original mail to you - it is not said in the mail, but the supplied link points it out: There is a project in Kenya using openZIM with Kiwix! /Manuel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Abbas Mahmoud* <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com <mailto:abbasjnr@hotmail.com>> Date: Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Proposed Wikimedia Project in Kenya Hi folks, As some of you may know, there exists a small bunch of Wikipedians in Kenya. In the last couple of months, we have been discussing ways in which we might increase Wikip\media awareness within Kenya. We then decided to experiment by starting by using offline Wikipedia in primary & secondary schools. We still are at a very early stage: the framework/proposal is still sketchy. Please check it out at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya/Project_for_Kenyan_Schools and give us your feedback. Feel free to edit, redaft or whatever you may call it so that we can come up with a more concrete proposal. Looking forward to getting your collaboration. Yours, m|Abbas.

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[openZIM dev-l] [Bug 31] New: -s argument seems to be (newly) invalid
by bugzilla-daemon＠openzim.org 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31 Summary: -s argument seems to be (newly) invalid Product: openZIM Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: trivial Priority: P5 Component: zimwriter AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org ReportedBy: emmanuel(a)engelhart.org CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org Estimated Hours: 0.0 In the trunk (r335) if you call zimwriterdb with -s 1024 (for example) you get the usage(): no zim file with be generated. $/usr/local/bin/zimwriterdb -s 1024 --db "postgresql:dbname=wiki2b user=kiwix port=5432" titi create zim file from db usage: /usr/local/bin/zimwriterdb [options] output-filename ".zim" is appended to the output filename if not already given. options: -s <number> specify chunk size for compression in kB (default 1024) --db <dburl> specify a db source (default: postgresql:dbname=zim, tntdb is used here) -Z <articlefile> create a fulltext index for specified article -S <words> search in zim file for articles -I <articlefile> article file for search -X <indexfile> use indexfile as full text search index -D <directory> create zim file from directory content additional options for full text indexer: -T <file> trivial words file for full text index (a text file with words, which are not indexed) -M <number> memory factor (default 64, smaller factors reduce memory usage but makes indexer slower, try smaller values when you run out of memory) -t <filename> temporary file name (default zimwriter.tmp) But if you call the same command line but without "-s 1024"... it works. $ /usr/local/bin/zimwriterdb --db "postgresql:dbname=wiki2b user=kiwix port=5432" titi create zim file from db create directory entries collect articles sort 6 directory entries (aid) remove invalid redirects from 6 directory entries sort 6 directory entries (url) set index translate redirect aid to index 6 directory entries created create title index 6 title index created create clusters 0% ready 10% ready 20% ready 30% ready 40% ready 50% ready 60% ready 70% ready 80% ready 1 clusters created fill header write zimfile ready zim file ready -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.openzim.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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[openZIM dev-l] Fwd: Re: [Offline-l] openZIM Developers Meeting 2010 in Strasbourg
by Manuel Schneider 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

A heads-up from Jimmy Wales: -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [Offline-l] openZIM Developers Meeting 2010 in Strasbourg Datum: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:53:28 +0100 Von: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia-inc.com> Hi everyone! My original dream for Wikipedia was to create and distribute a free encyclopedia to every single person on the planet, in their own language. This is the dream that has inspired hundreds of millions of readers, millions of editors, and thousands of developers. Your work here is among the most important and most exciting things going on in the wiki world, for multiple reasons. First the obvious: this work will make it possible for the next billion people to see Wikipedia on offline devices and mobile devices much sooner than they would see it if they had to wait for Internet access. But there is a more subtle effect - one thing we know is that writers love to have readers. Many people who speak languages of the developing world and have access to the Internet may not think to write in their home language, because they don't think many people will see it. As more people get access to read, there will be more motivations to write. To sum up: you all have my heartfelt personal thinks. Your work is important, and I am honored to work by your side. --Jimbo On 10/19/10 7:42 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote: > Thanks, we are all looking forward seeing this happen ;-) > > Am 19.10.2010 19:45, schrieb Erik Moeller: >> congratulations to a successful meeting. We'll be talking about the >> PediaPress project later this week and will post an update here when >> there are things to report. :-) _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list Offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l

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openZIM Developers Meeting 2010 in Strasbourg
by Manuel Schneider 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

Dear all, last weekend the openZIM team held its Developers Meeting for 2010. We planned to have two Developers Meeting per year, one in spring, one in fall. But as there were too many events in and around spring and all of us are volunteers we decided to better spend this weekend with our families. So this was our first and only Developers Meeting in 2010. Participants: * Emmanuel Engelhard (Kiwix maintainer and organizer of this meeting) * Tommi Mäkitalo (openZIM main developer) * Christian Pühringer (WikiOnBoard maintainer) * Ralf Schmitt (developer of Pediapress) * Manuel Schneider == Collections Extension for MediaWiki / Pediapress == Ralf from Pediapress visited us on Saturday to discuss with us the integration of the ZIM format into their Collections extension which is used on Wikimedia wikis to create books (printed on demand or exported as PDF or ODF). This idea was born on the Wikimedia Conference in April 2010 when we had a Wikipedia Offline meeting. Tommi and Ralf exchanged thoughts about the implementation, Tommi made some changes to the zimwriter to make it more modular while Ralf wrote a Python wrapper for zimlib. In a test program Ralf was able to create his first ZIM file using Python and the new modularized zimwriter. While Pediapress is in touch with the Wikimedia Foundation in order to make a project with them for the integration of ZIM into their software Ralf agreed to at least finish the test program in Python which can be downloaded here: http://github.com/schmir/pyzim We hope that WMF and Pediapress come to an agreement so the actual integration can happen soon. == Documentation of the ZIM File Format == As we made a lot of changes last year on the ZIM file format the documentation was partly outdated and partly not detailed enough. We spent roughly one day to improve the documentation, its size has doubled during this weekend. A few parts of the format, notably the URL scheme and encoding, native category handling, per-article meta data and the HTML layout was not properly specified, so we spend some time to discuss the details and fix these issues. They need to be implemented now, maybe the last major changes to the ZIM format, but these changes don't break compatibility as they were already prepared in the past. Another addition to the format - a new idea, but also backward-compatible - was the checksum. Newer ZIM files can now be checked by the new zimlib if they are corrupted. This was a request from users in Peru which have a hard time to download ZIM files and as they often have to resume transfers the files are likely to get corrupted. As they still work in most parts but cause errors in specific situations only it was hard to tell what the problem was. http://openzim.org/ZIM_File_Format == Reader Applications == News on specific readers, this is not a list of all available reader applications. === Windows / Linux === Kiwix is already wellknown and works perfectly on both GNU/Linux and Windows. It is a GUI application - a browser - to view ZIM files and also features a webserver to view ZIM in a network using a standard browser. Emmanuel's roadmap is to create big ZIM files in the next months including all images for the selected articles. The next WP 1.0 release will be produced soon, the selection process is almost done. He bought a new server to do that, partly sponsored by Wikimedia Italia. The biggest effort is to create and optimize all the thumbnails of the images, so he is now trying to get a server at the datacenter of the Wikimedia Foundation where he can read the image files directly from the repositories. http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page === Symbian / Android === This year Christian published WikiOnBoard, a Symbian application to view ZIM files. It works very well on recent Nokia phones. On Sunday Christian presented us WikiOnBoard on Android - after he was able to get Qt installed on Android WikiOnBoard can be compiled on Android without any porting. The plan is to implement a touch screen GUI to WikiOnBoard, so it can be used on never Nokia phones and on Android devices. The current version of WikiOnBoard only works with a keyboard which becomes less and less common. Once this is done WikiOnBoard will be published in the Nokia Ovi Store and Android market. Christian asked for sponsorship for a new touch screen phone (about 150 EUR plus the help to get it via Germany as it is not available yet in many other countries). As the openZIM budget offers enough room for this it only depends on the team to approve this sponsorship. http://wiki.github.com/cip/WikiOnBoard/ == MediaWiki API interface for zimwriter == Emmanuel and Tommi want to write a proof-of-concept of a zimwriter interface which uses the MediaWiki API directly to get all articles out of a wiki. == ZIM File Library == We want to start working on our ZIM File library to make it easier for users to fine ZIM files. This involves finding mirror sites and writing a download page which reads ZIM meta data, shows a searchable list of files and redirects downloads to the mirror servers. == Events in 2011 == === Developers Meeting === August 2nd / 3rd We decided to have the next and only openZIM meeting in 2011 during the Hacking Days which are prior Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, Israel. Asuming that we will be able to get the same sponsorship as this year we agreed that in this case will reimburse travel costs for this meeting in Israel. Registration to Wikimania will start in January, Manuel will send a notification to the openZIM mailing list. Everyone interested is urged to register and pay as soon as possible, as there will be a decent early bird discount and accommodation is part of the registration. Then everyone should book a flight. The receipts and invoices for registration and the flights will then go to Manuel who will take care of the reimbursement. === LinuxTag === May 11th - 14th As always LinuxTag will take place in Berlin and we will be part of it. We plan to have one or two talks about openZIM, Tommi will do again a live-coding session to show how to use zimlib while Emmanuel offered a talk about the steps of how to create an offline version of Wikipedia, explaining selection, code cleanups, link rewriting etc. == End == Ok, that's it. Quite a long report, but we actually did a lot of work during these two days. Additionally it is always very valuable to speak face-to-face and get to know new team members. This last year was not as active concerning features and development as last year, but I consider it being a great progress nevertheless - this year we were able to stabilize the format, get the implementation and documentation right and reach out for new users such as Pediapress or WikiOnBoard. The next year we will have to * finish the last open items concerning implementation * get the mobile readers released to the official markets / app stores * get the toolchains between MediaWiki and ZIM running, such as Collections extension and the MW API interface Pictures: See here http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2010-2 Thanks for the participants to be there and help getting the work done and to Wikimedia CH as our generous sponsor to make this possible. Thank you for your attention, Manuel Schneider -- 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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Re: [openZIM dev-l] openZIM Developers Meeting 2010 in Strasbourg
by Ted Chien 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

Hi Manuel, Thanks for the prompt reply. I know there's an unofficial Qt port for Android on Google Code, but I don't think there will be an official port for Qt on the Android platform. If the Qt port could support to interact with the Android UI system, then it would be great. But I'm afraid it might be not due to the limitation of the Android system. I would be interested to know how it works in WikiOnBoard for Android since I have past experiences on the Android system. Regards, Ted Chien -- Sent from my Nexus One. 2010-10-20 上午2:31 於 "Manuel Schneider" <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> 寫道：

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[openZIM dev-l] openZIM Developers Meeting 2010 in Strasbourg
by Manuel Schneider 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

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