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[openZIM dev-l] Make Metadatas mandatory?
by emmanuel＠engelhart.org 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

Hi With the multiplication of ZIM files and ZIM editors we need ways to build overviews. Without the metadatas they are not easy way to build these overviews (You have to do it by hand every time). This is waht I learned by coding the content manager of Kiwix which works now. So I think, having ZIM files with metadatas is essential, maybe even more. I think we have to push the usage of these metadatas (title, description, creation date, creator, favicon, language) and I see 3 approaches: (1) Make these informations mandatory (2) Make a recommendation but nothing blocking (3) Do nothing and be optimistic What would be your preferred approach? Regards Emmanuel

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[openZIM dev-l] global south strategy meeting, 2011-08-02, wikimania preconf prog
by rupert THURNER 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

on *tuesday, 2011-08-02*, withing the *wikimania preconference *program, there will be a *global south strategy workshop*. the topics worked on should be in *three areas*: * (1) contents * just to give ideas, topics may include (rare) languages, citing references in oral cultures, which wikimedia projects work best, etc. * (2) organizational development * the discussion here might center around crowdsourcing in such environments, which parties to involve first, a comparison how other next generation internet companies like facebook gain users, etc. * (3) access, which is the technical / developer part * topics include software needs to better support wikimedia projects given the connectivity restrictions which may exist, especially mobile and offline solutions, software supporting distributing contents via mesh networks, etc. depending on the preferences and number of participants this part will be in conjunction with the wikimedia offline developers workshop, http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenZIM_Developers_Meeting. feel free to register here: http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_South_Meeting we would be glad if you could add topics of special interest to be discussed as well. rupert thurner

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Re: [openZIM dev-l] new contributor / ZIM on Java
by Arunesh Mathur 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Thanks Manuel! Hello everyone! I am Arunesh Mathur, an undergraduate student studying in NITK, Surathkal in India. I have started making a port of the ZIM Reader in Java, so that people interested in making offline Wikipedia readers can leverage it, especially those who are looking to build for Android and J2ME. I'll make the first commit soon, which has the basic functions needed. There is still a long way to go to make it full fledged. I am generally a little busy, so I work on this in my free time. However, if you feel you need this to be done faster, just shoot an email and I'll try my best to speed things up! (no promises though). I hope this goes a long way in making ZIM more popular! Thanks, - Arunesh Mathur On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Manuel Schneider < manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> wrote: > Dear all, > > some of you might have noticed or read it already on IRC or in my last > mail here on the list: > > * there is a Java ZIM implementation to come > * there is now a Java LZMA2 implementation which was needed to make ZIM > on Java available > > These days I have set up a system account on our server for Arunesh > Mathur (gremmachook). Tommi prepared a SVN directory for him and his code: > http://svn.openzim.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/zimreader-java/ > > Arunesh is a student from India, interested in making the mobile version > of Wikipedia available on J2ME devices (eg. old mobile phones). > > He will introduce himself to the list. > > Arunesh, welcome on board! > > > Manuel > -- > Regards > Manuel Schneider > > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge > www.wikimedia.ch > _______________________________________________ > dev-l mailing list > dev-l(a)openzim.org > https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l > >

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Re: [openZIM dev-l] new contributor / ZIM on Java
by Arunesh Mathur 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Thanks Manuel! Hello everyone! I am Arunesh Mathur, a student from India. I have started making a port of the ZIM Reader in Java, so that people interested in making offline Wikipedia readers can leverage it, especially those who are looking to build for Android and J2ME. I'll make the first commit soon, which has the basic functions needed. There is still some way to go to make it full fledged. I am generally a little busy, so I work on this in my free time. However, if you feel you need this to be done faster, just shoot an email and I'll try my best to speed things up! (no promises though). I hope this goes a long way in making ZIM more popular! You can find me on the #openzim channel (Freenode). My nick is gremmachook. Thanks, - Arunesh Mathur On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Manuel Schneider < manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> wrote: > Dear all, > > some of you might have noticed or read it already on IRC or in my last > mail here on the list: > > * there is a Java ZIM implementation to come > * there is now a Java LZMA2 implementation which was needed to make ZIM > on Java available > > These days I have set up a system account on our server for Arunesh > Mathur (gremmachook). Tommi prepared a SVN directory for him and his code: > http://svn.openzim.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/zimreader-java/ > > Arunesh is a student from India, interested in making the mobile version > of Wikipedia available on J2ME devices (eg. old mobile phones). > > He will introduce himself to the list. > > Arunesh, welcome on board! > > > Manuel > -- > Regards > Manuel Schneider > > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge > www.wikimedia.ch > _______________________________________________ > dev-l mailing list > dev-l(a)openzim.org > https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l > > -- Best, Arunesh Mathur III year, Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India.

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[openZIM dev-l] new contributor / ZIM on Java
by Manuel Schneider 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Dear all, some of you might have noticed or read it already on IRC or in my last mail here on the list: * there is a Java ZIM implementation to come * there is now a Java LZMA2 implementation which was needed to make ZIM on Java available These days I have set up a system account on our server for Arunesh Mathur (gremmachook). Tommi prepared a SVN directory for him and his code: http://svn.openzim.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/zimreader-java/ Arunesh is a student from India, interested in making the mobile version of Wikipedia available on J2ME devices (eg. old mobile phones). He will introduce himself to the list. Arunesh, welcome on board! Manuel -- 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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Spanish WP beta selection
by Wilfredo Rodriguez 26 May '11

26 May '11

Sincerely, Has decided to write this email to keep you informed. For the past two months has begun a process of selection of articles. The selection uses the same criteria used in WP 1.0. in English. The number of articles is about 30,000. The selection process will use the following formula sets: Spanish WP beta = (A U B U C) - D A = Selection of the first 30 thousand articles in order of internal and external (<LANGLINKS>, <PAGELINKS> and <HITCOUNT>). Select name, id_article from articles order by <LANGLINKS>, <PAGELINKS>, <HITCOUNT> LIMIT 30,000 B = Spanish version of the list of articles included in WP 1.0 in English. If there is a corresponding article in Spanish. C = articles to be added manually. For its encyclopedic value => good, quality articles. D = list of articles to be removed. By different factors: sexually explicit, controversial or controversial, violence and general audience sensitive content Additionally, WikiTrust extract the best version ID, ie the best version in the history ID for each article. Everyone is invited to contribute. I am at your service. The project contact is: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_en_CD http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_en_CD/Taller P.D. I have spoken to Martin A. Walker and Jessie Wild to help me through the process of automatic selection of the first joint. -- Atte. [[User:Wilfredor]] "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." # linuxCounter: 371504

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Fwd: Content manager feed format
by Erik Moeller 15 May '11

15 May '11

Hi folks in the education & offline content communities, as you probably know, Kiwix is an offline reader application for ZIM files, which are compressed content packages of Wikipedia content for offline use. ZIM content packages include the "Wikipedia for Schools" selection, the "Wikipedia 0.8" edition, as well as any arbitrary collection of Wikipedia articles through the "Create a book" feature on Wikipedia. As such, they have relevance both for use of our content without Internet connectivity, and use within an educational setting where there may be a desire to use specific selections of content. An important conversation happening on the Kiwix development list (see email form Tomasz below): How should repositories/feeds of content packages be advertised? This connects to larger/deeper questions about the future direction of our offline efforts, possible inclusion of other educational resources beyond Wikimedia content, feedback channels, etc. (I'll share some more detailed thoughts about those issues soon.) If you have thoughts re: this first spec (e.g. existing metadata standards that would be useful here -- keep in mind this is highly iterative development), feel free to comment here and we'll pass through important conversations, or participate directly on the Kiwix dev list. All best, Erik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM Subject: Content manager feed format To: kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> Greetings All, Today Emmanuel posted the first version of the content manager feed format at http://kiwix.org/index.php/FeedFormat. This is the first draft of the XML (like) spec for anyone wanting to publish a feed that Kiwix can understand. For those unfamiliar with the project its part of our current efforts to build out a content manager as documented in http://kiwix.org/index.php/WMF_UX_Improvement_Effort Were looking to write and implement a spec within our current efforts so that we can eventually have numerous content providers publish content available to Kiwix and any OER tools. Were especially curious to find anyone who's worked with atom and rss feeds since this will share some similar attributes. Please help us refine it by commenting and helping us get to our first version. --tomasz -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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[openZIM dev-l] Antw.: Latest News - LinuxTag and Java port
by Manuel Schneider 09 May '11

09 May '11

Ok, is there a difference? I wonder what the mobile sites do, I regularly hear complaints ans developers stating that a rewrite was needed while mobile site works fine for me. Manuel Schneider Sent via mobile phone (+49 170 7740589). ----- Reply message ----- Von: "Rotem Simha" <hidroo(a)gmail.com> An: <dev-l(a)openzim.org> Betreff: [openZIM dev-l] Latest News - LinuxTag and Java port Datum: Fr., Mai. 6, 2011 16:23 why not to use http://en.m.wikipedia.org/ instead of mobile.wikipedia.org . isn't that a batter version? 2011/5/6 Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> Hi all, in a few minutes I will leave for LinuxTag, our yearly open source convention in Berlin where openZIM will be present again. If you like to come please drop me a note, we have free tickets for you! Another, really awesome news: We have a new regular visitor in our IRC channel (#openzim on Freenode) who lives in India and is currently implementing the ZIM file format on Java. He was able to get a (official!) Java library for LZMA2: http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html gremmachook (so is the nickname) is looking forward to make a dump of mobile.wikipedia.org (there are some issues here) and make it available on phones supporting J2ME (more or less all phones). The next step could be an Android application... That's it for today, regards, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ dev-l mailing list dev-l(a)openzim.org https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l -- רותם שמחה

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[openZIM dev-l] Antw.: Latest News - LinuxTag and Java port
by Manuel Schneider 06 May '11

06 May '11

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[openZIM dev-l] Latest News - LinuxTag and Java port
by Manuel Schneider 06 May '11

06 May '11

Hi all, in a few minutes I will leave for LinuxTag, our yearly open source convention in Berlin where openZIM will be present again. If you like to come please drop me a note, we have free tickets for you! Another, really awesome news: We have a new regular visitor in our IRC channel (#openzim on Freenode) who lives in India and is currently implementing the ZIM file format on Java. He was able to get a (official!) Java library for LZMA2: http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html gremmachook (so is the nickname) is looking forward to make a dump of mobile.wikipedia.org (there are some issues here) and make it available on phones supporting J2ME (more or less all phones). The next step could be an Android application... That's it for today, regards, Manuel -- 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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