Just a note for apache, one can of course use mod_proxy to put kiwix serve behind apache.

Am 20.07.2011 18:32 schrieb "Manuel Schneider" <manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch>:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Am 20.07.2011 18:08, schrieb Kevin Clark:
> >> what are your needs which cannot be met?
> >
> > We evaluated it a year ago so apologies if things have moved on since then.  I recorded its weaknesses for the Wikipedia project we were planning as:
> >
> > 1) No links between articles
>
> sorry, the articles have always been perfect HTML, so including all
> links... otherwise it wouldn't make sense at all.
>
> > 2) Requires it's own browser, not a standard desktop browser
>
> ZIM files can be read by different applications, such as a TXT file can
> be edited in many editor.
>
> Kiwix is one of them, kiwix-serve in contrast is a server component -
> you will need to use your favourite webbrowser to access / browse the
> content of the ZIM file.
> As said in 1) already, the content of ZIM files is perfect HTML anyway.
> Kiwix-serve just provides the HTTP interface between the ZIM reader and
> the browser.
>
> > 3) Doesn't run under Apache
>
> True.
>
> > A) Our solution could run on Linux or Windows - Linux provides a key part of our infrastructure but our clients might not want to support it
>
> Kiwix runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS X
>
> WikiOnBoard runs on Symbian (and Android)
>
> vido and qvido run on extremely small embedded Linux devices (less than
> 16 MB of RAM)
>
> zimreader-java runs on anything that supports Java
>
> > B) Our solution could be extended to support other Wikimedia sites, e.g. Wiktionary - database dumps are readily available Wiktionary but I don't see that same availability for OpenZIM files
>
> as stated in 1), ZIM is a mere storage format for HTML content. You can
> put anything in it, even non-MediaWiki stuff.
>
> I am pretty sure that there are Wiktionary ZIM files around, and if not,
> they can be made easily.
>
> Did you know that the "print a book" feature (Collections Extension) in
> Wikipedia creates ZIM files?
>
> I have even heard about a project making combined ZIM files holding both
> Wikipedia and Wiktionary in the same file.
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is working since more than a year now to
> provide regular ZIM files from all Wikimedia wikis, just in the same way
> they already do with XML and SQL files. The ZIM support in Collections
> Extension was one of the steps to reach this goal.
>
>
> /Manuel
> --
> Regards
> Manuel Schneider
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