Dear Andy,
My interest is to be able to serve wikipedia content
off a server in
a classroom - usually a Thin Client setup, but not always, and they
rarely
have internet access. Weak, small clients, networked to a strong server,
running linux.
Zim and Zeno file formats are not intended for network access. Zim/Zeno
readers
like Okawix and Kiwix need to have direct access to the files. Now you
could
workaround it by using some NFS or Samba share.
I downloaded a torrent - en.wikipedia.okawix -
which appeared to be a
tarball with these contents :- -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr
571428918 Jul 6
23:24 article.index -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 108812163 Jul 6 23:24
article.map -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 5601891132 Jul 6 23:23
en.wikipedia.zeno -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 11 Jun 23 18:58 entry.url
-rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 307 Jul 6 23:23 licence.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr
andyr 596303890 Jul 6 23:25 word.index -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 108108941
Jul 6 23:25 word.map I see a zeno file - a precursor to the zim format ?
Yeah, Zim is an upgraded version of the Zeno format.
The ZimReader static binary from
http://openzim.org/Releases dated
2009-06-07 (same date as the files above ?) will
not read the file. Am I
doing this wrong ?
Yeah, Zim readers can't read the Zeno format. Use Okawix
(
http://okawix.com) to read Zeno files.
Secondly, I downloaded
wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_beta2.zim
and pointed the ZimReader at this -
hoping to browse to server:8080 and
read the file. But I have no index, and no search - do I need to get the
index files separately ?
As I already said, Zim and Zeno files are mostly intended for direct
access,
not for network access. As for the search indexes, they are provided along
the
Zeno contents in the Okawix bundles and are only usefull for the Okawix
search
components.
And the css files (?) are in German - do I need to
compile my own
reader from svn to get an English reader ?
Ehm... not sure what you are talking about...
Can I build a deb (for Ubuntu ?)
A .deb for Okawix would be great. If you need on that matter (or something
else) join
irc://irc.freenode.net/okawix
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:48:13 +0200, Andy Rabagliati <andyr(a)wizzy.com>
wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Coming here by way of the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team pages,
> I have a few questions.
>
> Disclaimer :- I am in South Africa, where bandwidth is expensive, so
> a lot of my 'fiddling' is done on my server in the USA, where I do not
> have b/w limitations.
>
> My interest is to be able to serve wikipedia content off a server in
> a classroom - usually a Thin Client setup, but not always, and they
> rarely have internet access.
>
> Weak, small clients, networked to a strong server, running linux.
>
> I downloaded a torrent - en.wikipedia.okawix - which appeared to be
> a tarball with these contents :-
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 571428918 Jul 6 23:24 article.index
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 108812163 Jul 6 23:24 article.map
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 5601891132 Jul 6 23:23 en.wikipedia.zeno
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 11 Jun 23 18:58 entry.url
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 307 Jul 6 23:23 licence.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 596303890 Jul 6 23:25 word.index
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 108108941 Jul 6 23:25 word.map
>
> I see a zeno file - a precursor to the zim format ?
>
The ZimReader static binary from
http://openzim.org/Releases dated
> 2009-06-07 (same date as the files above ?)
will not read the file.
>
> Am I doing this wrong ?
>
Secondly, I downloaded
wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_beta2.zim
> and pointed the ZimReader at
this - hoping to browse to server:8080
> and read the file. But I have no index, and no search - do I need to
get
> the index files separately ?
>
And the css files (?) are in German - do I need to
compile my own
> reader from svn to get an English reader ?
>
> Can I build a deb (for Ubuntu ?)
>
> Cheers, Andy!
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