On Jan 8, 2011, at 2:01 AM, Tommi Mäkitalo wrote:
Hi Tomasz,
thank you for the information about current happenings.
What I'm especially interested in are the technical limitations, the offline Wikipedia team has. What are these technical limitations? Is there anything where I can help.
We'll get our first good understanding of that once the collections work is done.
Recently I created a tool, which just grabs all articles from a running mediawiki using the api and creates a zim file out of it. No indirection through files or database any more. That was really easy.
Nice .. this will be super nice to test with.
The tool is not really finished yet since it needs to rewrite links to point to the zim file to be really usable, but that is easy to do e.g. using regular expressions.
If I know, how you plan to create the zim files, I may create a tool, which makes that as smooth as possible.
I'll mail out as soon as I hear back from my PediaPress contact.
--tomasz