These are great news.
Am Dienstag, 7. April 2009 22:54:41 schrieb Tommi Mäkitalo:
I created a openzim file from the german wikipedia dump I became from Josch last year. The file contains all articles from the german wikipedia without images and its size is 1,3G (or more precisely 1302052315 bytes). Generation took only about 1:10 on our server with the new zimwriter. It could be even improved by parallizing the compression phase, since this is CPU bound and takes the most time, but I feel, that it is not necessary. There are more important task to do.
How much is 1:10 now in absolute numbers? Can you please have a look into http://www.openzim.org/Status_and_next_steps and strike the things which have been done or add other things, which aren't yet on the list?
You can download the file from http://www.openzim.org/download/dewiki.zim.
Please allow me to rename that file soon to wikipedia-de.zim. I try to establish a scheme for filenames which take into account that we will later host all kind of different ZIM files.
The zimreader (the tntnet based webapplication) is almost working with that file. There are some bugs to fix, but this will be done soon.
Is it just the zimreader or in libzim? What about the status of Kiwix?
Josch: do you have an updated dump?
I just had a look into the members list of this mailinglist. Josch is currently not subscribed to this list. Tommi, can you handle that, please?
Once the current holidays in Israel are over I assume that we will have Asaf on this list as well. I told the news to one of his colleagues at Wikimedia Israel.
Greets,
Manuel