Hi
After almost two years since the last release, the new libzim is out:
http://www.openzim.org/download/zimlib-1.3.tar.gz
This new release brings a few improvements and bugs fixes:
* FIXED: zimdump crash with long filenames
* FIXED: few portability issues
* NEW: method to get real file offset of article in ZIM
* NEW: smarter article cluster building (+5% compression)
* NEW: one pass writing process (instead of two)
These improvements allow easier:
* new bindings (like node-libzim)
* new features of the ZIM format, like integrating the fulltext search index
* creation of more ZIM files (speed-up ZIM creation)
This improvements have been done by a few developers mostly during our
Kiwix hackathon @Wikimania Esino. This has been made possible with the
support of:
* Fondation Orange
* Wikimedia CH
* Wikimedia Foundation
* Bibliothèque sans frontière
More information about the project openZIM and the ZIM format at:
http://www.openzim.org/
Regards
Emmanuel Engelhart
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Offline Medical Wikipedia in Persian
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:21:46 -0600
From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
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Hey All
Today we launched an offline version of Wikipedia's medical content in
Persian. Thank's to the local community, Translators Without Borders,
Wikimedia CH, and my colleagues at Wiki Project Med for bringing this about.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimedfa
More languages coming soon.
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Arabic version of Offline Medical App Launches
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 04:29:06 -0600
From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
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Hey All
We have just launched the Arabic version of our offline medical app. It is
all of Arabic Wikipedia's healthcare, pharmaceutical, anatomy, and
sanitation articles.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimedar
Only avaliable for Android at this point in time. Persian coming soon :-)
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Hi all. I just wanted to email a general announcement about the XOWA
app for Android. It was first released to Google Play Store back on
2016-04-16, but I wanted to refrain from a wider notice until it was
more stable.
In brief, here are the major features:
* Read all of Wikipedia offline, without an internet connection. View
articles in full HTML formatting with images.
* Use the same user interface as the Wikipedia Mobile app. This
includes multiple tabs, table of contents, find in page, random
article, page history, saved pages, and customizable fonts.
* Search for any page with a powerful search engine. Try any title
word or fragment, case-insensitive terms, wildcards, or even boolean
operators (and / or). Searches are ranked by the PageRank algorithm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
* Download wikis in-application through Download Central. This
includes one-click downloads for English Wikipedia, Wiktionary,
Wikisource, Wikivoyage, etc. as well as French, German, and Arabic
counterparts. More wikis published on a weekly basis.
* Switch between wikis in app, or by clicking on links within the wiki
* Stay up to date with a recent copy of English Wikipedia (currently 2016-07-01)
* Support free and open-source software (AGPLv3)
Here are the links:
* Google Play Store (Play Store app):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa
* Github releases (standalone apk): https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases
* XOWA home page (more info): http://xowa.org/
Finally, with regards to the version number, the XOWA Android App
follows the same version numbering as the desktop app. Outside of the
UI, the two apps share much of the same code-base.
As always, any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.