Hi,
after more than 6 months work on this new Kiwix version, I'm proud to
announce the first alpha of the 0.9 branch.
The most important improvement is that this version re-introduces the
MS Windows support which was avoided for in the 0.8 branch.
You have here the full changelog:
* ZIM library management outside the profile
* Windows support & installer
* First version of the search suggest feature (ID: 2799913)
* New icon (with white background) (ID: 2981323)
* New ZIM HTTP server called "kiwix-serve" (GNU/Linux only)
* New Command line indexation tool called "kiwix-index" (GNU/Linux only)
* Allow drag&drop over the UI to open a ZIM file
* Auto detection of the UI locale at the first start (GNU/Linux only)
* New "Recently open" menu
* New internal library of ZIM (to be able to manage many ZIM files)
* New Hebrew, Portuguese, Chinese and Persian localization
* New Bookmarks and Notes system (coming from Moulinwiki)
* New script to compact search engine indexes in the profile called
"kiwix-compact.sh" (ID: 2834599)
* Translate ISO code in the language sub-menu (ID: 2834600)
* New "Save Page" (in files) feature (ID: 175508)
* New "Print as PDF" feature
* kiwix.sh check for current path (ID: 2850487)
* First result is now only loaded with a pretty good score (ID: 2845850)
* "Report a bug" and "request a feature" links in the UI
* Fixing issue affecting ZIM file loading with accented paths (ID: 2905488)
* New feature to clean the profile at the end of the session (optional)
* Redesign of the "About" dialog box
This version uses the last SVN trunk version of openZIM with all their
improvements. All of them except the meta-datas are used, but next release
will also use the meta-data and introduce stemming and stopwords. Combining
with the upcoming new Xapian backend called chert, Kiwix should really
have smaller search engine indexes.
The links:
* Windows portable binary + installer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/kiwix-0.9-alpha1-win.zip/downlo…
* Sources for GNU/Linux and Windows:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/kiwix-0.9-alpha1-src.bz2/downlo…
* Windows portable binary + installer + WP1EN 0.7 + index:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/tmp/kiwix-0.9-alpha1-win+wp1en0.7.zip
Cheers
Emmanuel
http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14
Summary: zim-check
Product: openZIM
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: zimwriter
AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org
ReportedBy: emmanuel(a)engelhart.org
CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org
Estimated Hours: 0.0
We need to have a way to check the quality of of zim file.
Should be at least checked:
* (WARNING) has a welcome page
* (ERROR) broken local HTML links
* (WARNING) redundant content
* ...
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Le jeu 15/04/10 16:47, "Manuel Schneider" manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch a écrit:
> We could have a discussion about the place, of course, if you want to
> start that. But for me it doesn't matter if the meeting is in Val de
> Reuil, as long as we have good conditions to work there.
I want an as small as possible travel_time/work_time ratio. I was two times in
Val-de-Reuil with the train, I know what it cost in time and energy to got there
for me:
2/3 of a day per travel. I think anywhere in Alsace or in the West of Germany
should be more handful for the majority of the attendees.
I think we should try to find a place near the Center of mass of all attendees
places.
Finding a Hotel and a room with Internet (that's is all what we need IMO) for a
reasonable
price should not be a big problem, I can organize that.
So, this is really important to know who will attend!
Regards
Emmanuel
Do I correctly understand?
Manuel, you won't propose to have this Meeting in Schopfheim?
Emmanuel
Le jeu 15/04/10 16:30, "Manuel Schneider" manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch a écrit:
> Hi to all,
>
> we really should set up our next Developers Meeting.
>
> There is a vote going on in our wiki:
> http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2010-1
> Please sign up, so we can start the real planning!
>
>
> /Manuel
>
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> Regards
> Manuel Schneider
>
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> Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
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>
Hi to all,
we really should set up our next Developers Meeting.
There is a vote going on in our wiki:
http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2010-1
Please sign up, so we can start the real planning!
/Manuel
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Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
For your information, we got a sponsored (for free) booth at the LinuxTag.
I have currently added Tommi, Mirko (Qi Hardware), my wife and me as
exhibitors. If there are any changes please put it into the wiki page
and notify me:
http://openzim.org/LinuxTag_2010
Hotel rooms are booked for Tommi, Annette and me, according to the
planning page in the wiki.
/Manuel
...sitting in the train on the way to Berlin (MediaWiki Developers
Conference)
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Hi,
Le mer 24/03/10 08:13, "Manuel Schneider" manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch a écrit:
> I have to admit that I currently have no idea where there are problems
> with LTR - I always thought of ZIM just being a container - it doesn't
> process the data you put into it. SO if you put in LTR text you will get
> out LTR text again.
I though the same thing ;)
> What we would need though is a hebrew/arab/yiddish... stemmer for the
> fulltext search index creation and of course support on the reader
> application. But this is Kiwix (which as far as I know supports LTR
> because it was used by MoulinWiki) or the webbrowser when using
> zimreader.
I have ZIM files in Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi and as far as I know they are
no specific issues related to these languages in Kiwix nor in the zimlib. Asaf, if
you have such bugs, the best is to open a ticket in the appropriate bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.openzim.org/Main_Page or http://bugs.kiwix.org
About the stemming, Xapian (used by Kiwix) has no solution for these languages... this would
be a pretty good idea to have a grant for that (at least one language).
Emmanuel
PS: Asaf, what about my Invitation to meet Reg from Moulinwiki in Tel-Aviv?
> Manuel
>
> Am 23.03.2010 23:55, schrieb Asaf Bartov:
> > I may have mentioned this before, but I'll state it again:
> >
> > Wikimedia Israel has set aside funds (on the order of $3000) to support
> > development of OpenZIM. We hope to encourage work on the specific
> > issues that still hamper successful deployment of right-to-left
> > Wikipedia (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Yiddish), and I
> > was hoping to discuss the specifics with Manuel and whoever else will be
> > attending the upcoming conference in Berlin.
> >
> > Asaf