Hi,
We have released the version 1.2 of the zimlib
http://openzim.org/download/zimlib-1.2.tar.gz
This is a minor release, here comes the changelog:
* Do not try to remap mime types for redirects or other types (#52324)
* Remove duplicate decl. of Dirent:: redirectMimeType & linktarget
* Make it compiles with Microsoft VS2010 environment
* Make it compiles with Apple OSX 10.9 environment
The zimlib is the standard implementation of the ZIM specification. It
is a library which implements the read and write method for ZIM files.
Use the zimlib in your own software - like reader applications - to make
them ZIM-capable without the need having to dig too much into the ZIM
file format.
Regards
Emmanuel
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication
v1.4.1 is a general release. Please see
http://xowa.sourceforge.net/download.html
These are the major changes since the last announcement (v1.2.1):
* Offline images for Wikipedia and all sister wikis in the following languages:
** Italian, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Swedish, Japanese, Ukrainian,
Arabic, Hungarian, Portuguese and Thai
** (See [[Help:Download]] for a full list)
* Offline image updates for English and German Wikipedia
* Wikivoyage extension support: Listings, MapSources, GeoCrumbs, RelatedArticles
* Alternate Luaj engine for Scribunto. See [[Help:Options/Scribunto]]
* Scribunto performance enhancements
* Improvements to Firefox Addon / HTTP Server
* Optional HTML tidy support. See [[Help:Options/HTML_tidy]]
* Better dump file import (unzipping bz2 file is not longer the default)
* Right to left support for portal tabs
* CSS support for new Wikimedia search box
* Multiple parser improvements
A full list of changes is available at [[Help:Change_log]] inside XOWA
As always, any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.
Hi
For the first time, we have achieved to release a complete dump of all
encyclopedic articles of the Wikipedia in English, *with thumbnails*.
This ZIM file is 40 GB big and contains the current 4.5 million articles
with their 3.5 millions pictures:
http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all.zim.torrent
This ZIM file is directly and easily usable on many types of devices
like Android smartphones and Win/OSX/Linux PCs with Kiwix, or Symbian
with Wikionboard.
You don't need modern computers with big CPUs. You can for example
create a (read-only) Wikipedia mirror on a RaspberryPi for ~100USD by
using our ZIM dedicated Web server called kiwix-serve. A demo is
available here: http://library.kiwix.org/wikipedia_en_all/
Like always, we also provide a packaged version (for the main PC
systems) which includes fulltext search index+ZIM file+binaries:
http://download.kiwix.org/portable/wikipedia_en_all.zip.torrent
What is interesting too: This file was generated in less than 2 weeks
thanks to multiples recent innovations:
* The Parsoid (cluster), which gives us an HTML output with additional
semantic RDF tags
* mwoffliner, a nodejs script able to dumps pages based on the Mediawiki
API (and Parsoid API)
* zimwriterfs, a solution able to compile any local HTML directory to a
ZIM file
We have now an efficient way to generate new ZIM files. Consequently, we
will work to industrialize and automatize the ZIM file generation
process, one thing which is probably the most oldest and important
problem we still face at Kiwix.
All this would not have been possible without the support:
* Wikimedia CH and the "ZIM autobuild" project
* Wikimedia France and the Afripedia project
* Gwicke from the WMF Parsoid dev team.
BTW, we need additional developer helps with javascript/nodejs skills to
fix a few issues on mwoffliner:
* Recreate the "table of content" based on the HTML DOM (*)
* Scrape Mediawiki Resourceloader in a manner it will continue to work
offline (***)
* Scrape categories (**)
* Localized the script (*)
* Improve the global performance by introducing usage of workers (**)
* Create nodezim, the libzim nodejs binding and use it (***, need also
compilation and C++ skills)
* Evaluate necessary work to merge mwoffliner and new WMF PDF Renderer (***)
Emmanuel
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Le 01/03/2014 19:26, James Forrester a écrit :
> On Saturday, March 1, 2014, Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson(a)kiwix.org> wrote:
> fix a few issues on mwoffliner:
>> * Recreate the "table of content" based on the HTML DOM (*)
>
> We are currently working on doing similar work to this in VisualEditor (to
> provide for a Table of Contents that can change 'live' as the document is
> edited); this code may ultimately be used to generate the "real" Tables of
> Contents for the reading HTML, as part of the plans to replace the output
> of the PHP parser with Parsoid everywhere.
>
> It should be possible for Kiwix to re-use this in some way (rather than
> have to re-implement it!). We hope to have something to show in the next
> few weeks, if that's helpful.
Nice news!
Yes, indeed, this would be great to be able to re-use your work.
I have subscribed this Bugzilla entry, which is guess what you mean:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49224
Of course, for our usage, the best solution would be to have the initial
TOC rendering done on Parsoid side, which would also offer the advantage
of speeding-up initial VE rendering.
Emmanuel
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication
v1.2.1 is a general release.
The files are available here: http://xowa.sourceforge.net/download.html
These are the major changes since the last announcement (v1.1.1):
* Better support for Chinese wikis: variants (-{}-); auto-conversion
* Better support for Wikisource: <pages>; {{#lstx}}
* Url bar shortcuts expanded to all languages / wikis:
fr.s:Auteur:Shakespeare -> fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Shakespeare
* Thumbnails for pdf, djvu and webm files
* Improved Firefox Addon support
* Gui fixes for navigating backward / forward through history
* Various parser fixes
* Offline image update for English Wikipedia: 2014-01-02
* Offline images and audio for German Wiktionary
* Offline images for...
** all Chinese wikis
** Wikinews and Wikisource in English, German, French, Polish and Chinese
** Wikimedia Commons (Mainspace only)
** all Dutch wikis
** all Latin wikis
A full list of changes is available at [[Help:Change_log]] inside XOWA
As always, any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.
fyi
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Google Summer of Code 2014 starts NOW
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:41:36 -0800
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Google Summer of Code 2014 has started.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014
(Thank you Raylton for creating this page)
The first step is to apply as Wikimedia organization before February 14.
I can do this, with your help:
* We need another org admin ready to work. I was the primary org admin
in GSoC 2013 and I'm also primary/only org admin in FOSS OPW and
Facebook Oen Academy. Google Code-in was different, with Andre and me
really sharing the org admin role. This brought better and more reliable
program administration, plus useful knowledge shared by more people for
future editions. Interested? Please reply.
* We need to add proposals with mentors and community buy-in under the
"Featured project ideas" section at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Featur…
. Either you step in now, or you wait at least six months until the next
call. Interested? Just edit the page. The sooner the better.
PS: I will be offline on holidays next week. I will submit the Wikimedia
application before leaving, almost week before the deadline. You will be
able to keep improving our proposal by improving the related wiki pages.
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Subject: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Now Accepting Applications for
Mentoring Organizations for GSoC 2014
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 11:01:15 -0800
From: Carol Smith <carols(a)google.com>
Reply-To: gsoc-mentors-announce+owners(a)googlegroups.com
To: GSoC Mentors Announce <gsoc-mentors-announce(a)googlegroups.com>
Hi all,
We're pleased to announce that applications for mentoring organizations
for Google Summer of Code 2014 are now being accepted [1]. If you'd like
to apply to be a mentoring organization you can do so now via Melange
[2]. If you have questions about how to use Melange, please see our
User's Guide [3]. Please note that the application process has changed a
bit from previous years: to apply you must now create your individual
profile and then an organization profile before submitting your
application.
Please note that the application period [4] closes on 14 February at
19:00 UTC [5]. *We will not accept any late applications for any reason.*
[1]
-
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/02/mentoring-organization-applic…
[2] - http://www.google-melange.com
[3] - http://en.flossmanuals.net/melange/
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Section 5.3 seems to cover this as well. There is only a problem if, say,
you use a similar logo and similar domain name.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_policy#FAQ-fakearticle
That said, to the extent that we care about not being confused with mirrors
and forks, we should perhaps consider using a well-defined customization of
Vector (with some colors and other visual features that are not the same as
the default MediaWiki install) on the core WM sites. Then there would be
even less of a chance of any confusion; or of any possibly unintended
trademark conflict.
SJ
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:13 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cananian(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> Not having read the policy in depth, I'll say that the firefox project
> (for example) handles this situation by reserving trademark rights,
> but then granting very liberal automatic licenses to aspects of the
> trademark if you meet certain conditions. So one might resolve the
> situation with wikipedia by saying that the "appearance of the
> article" is trademarked, but that mirrors/offline viewers meeting
> certain guidelines (proper attribution? links to the source site?) get
> an automatic license to the trademarked appearance.
>
> I hope that someone who is more knowledgeable about the trademark
> policy will tell me if i'm on the right track, or whether some other
> means of protecting offline readers is envisioned.
> --scott
>
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Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
In the draft trademark policy, we learn that «This policy applies to all
trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. [...] One example is the
specific design and appearance of a Wikipedia article, or the Wikipedia
main page. The trade dress of any Wikimedia site is also a trademark of
the Wikimedia Foundation.»
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_policy#FAQ-tradedress
Has someone got explicit confirmation that this wording can't possibly
ever mean that a ZIM/Kiwix dump reproducing "the specific design and
appearance of a Wikipedia article" could theoretically be subject to a
trademark authorisation?
Nemo