Hi,
thanks SJ for starting this thread, because this is something laying on my desk. Unfortunately I am currently busy so can't really take care of it (having internet at home would be a first start to fix this situation :-) ).
On 28.04.2011 07:42, Samuel Klein wrote:
A library / modulestore of thousands of available modules (zim files) would be nice.
That's what http://openzim.org/ZIM_File_Archive is intended to be. Currently still a wiki page, which I thought is for start good enough before we come up with the shiny perfect solution.
My intentions are to combine several things: * use the experience we got by mirroring / distributing the german Wikipedia DVD (pre-openZIM), see http://dvd.wikimedia.org/
* give a central place to easily find ZIM files for users - should also invite more people to use ZIM
* give ZIM publishers an easy way to publish / distribute / mirror their files
The way it was intended to work ("the final version"): 1) a publisher provides us with a ZIM file (sends us a link, uploads it, whatever - maybe we could have a neat webinterface where publishers can register and maintain their files)
2) the file will be put into our archive (filesystem) and categorisation (database)
3) the whole archive is being mirrored to several sites
4) users can use our webinterface to browse the categories and search files, downloads will link to random mirrors in order to distribute load
Recently, Emmanuel / Kelson (Kiwix) has introduced a favicon.ico in ZIM (URL: /-/favicon.ico) to be used in such systems.
Meta Data is also available (Dublin Core) in ZIM files which can be read from namespace M. A minimal set of attributes have been defined: http://openzim.org/Metadata
"snapshot type" (wiktionary, abridged wikipedia, wikipedia by category, wikisource, other/custom ...) ~~ "language[s]" "articles" (trusted only, by popularity, by wp1.0 score, all) "article stubs" (yes, no, only popular ones) "article length" (1st para, lede, summary, full) "image size" (none, thumbnails, full) "target size" (<50M, 200M, 1G, 4G, 16G, 64G, any size) "image % of total" (none, 20%, 50%, 80%) "templates" (yes, no, never) ~~ "export format" (zim, wikireader, woip, mw-xml, pdf, odt)
This is a very helpful listing which would help us to design the "final version" of the ZIM Archive.
/Manuel