Ciao Frederico,
we are happy to hear that Wikimedia Italia plans to join our effort to establish a standard offline format for Wikimedia (and other free) content.
The idea of openZIM is * to provide documentation of a standardized, efficient file format (the "ZIM file format") for the offline content including ** article hypertext data ** MIME types such as images ** full text search index) * to provide a free and open source implementation of the ZIM file format, consisting of ** libzim (general functions to read and write ZIM files) ** zimwriter (CLI tool to write the raw content from a database to a ZIM file) ** zimindexer (CLI tool to create a full text index) ** zimreader (small webserver application providing access to the ZIM files' contents fur users / readers)
There is also Kiwix, another offline reader (GUI application) for Wikipedia which stores its data in ZIM files and uses libzim. MoulinWiki and Wikiwix are basing on Kiwix.
openZIM has a booth at the LinuxTag on June 14th to 17th.
We are currently working on a Wikipedia DVD with the german Wikipedia we want to give away for free. It will contain a beta release of zimreader, kiwix and a current Wikipedia dump.
After LinuxTag we should focus on bugfixing and try to start working on the porting projects. We have a server sponsored by Wikimedia CH (openzim.org) with a wiki, mailinglist and development environment (shell access, databases, subversion repository, virtual Windows instance, Symbian SDK) running there.
I would recommend if you would invite all potential developers you have to join our mailing list on dev-l@openzim.org and our IRC channel #openzim on Freenode and check out the code from our SVN and start messing around with it. Questions can always been asked on the ML or IRC.
Greets,
Manuel
Am Dienstag, 19. Mai 2009 schrieb Ilario Valdelli:
Dear Federico, you have here the contact for the project openZIM.
The main contact is Manuel Schneider (manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch) and the group of developers can be contacted with the address (dev-l@openzim.org).
Manuel can clarify you the status of the project.
Federico Leva is member and treasurer of the board of Wikimedia Italia. Wikimedia Italia is looking for a new solution for the CD of offline edition of it.wikipedia and would have a look in OpenZIM to investigate if this solution can match the requirements of Italian board.
Wikimedia Italia seems to be interested also to support the project like Wikimedia CH is doing.
I have received from Manuel also the notification that some tests are not in progress due to the overload of work, but I think that Federico could help you to found some testers.
Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH