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?
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
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Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
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