Hi,
I want to inform you that Wikimedia CH has again decided to sponsor openZIM and has approved our full budget of 9'000 EUR for 2010.
For more information and updates on spendings see http://openzim.org/Budget_2010
Side note: Erik Möller, Deputy Director of Wikimedia Foundation, has offered to match the spendings of Wikimedia CH on the openZIM budget through the Chapters Grants program.
I want to thank Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia Foundation for the generous support of the openZIM project!
Happy Easter!
/Manuel
Am 24.03.2010 12:03, schrieb emmanuel@engelhart.org:
Hi,
Le mer 24/03/10 08:13, "Manuel Schneider" manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch a écrit:
I have to admit that I currently have no idea where there are problems with LTR - I always thought of ZIM just being a container - it doesn't process the data you put into it. SO if you put in LTR text you will get out LTR text again.
I though the same thing ;)
What we would need though is a hebrew/arab/yiddish... stemmer for the fulltext search index creation and of course support on the reader application. But this is Kiwix (which as far as I know supports LTR because it was used by MoulinWiki) or the webbrowser when using zimreader.
I have ZIM files in Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi and as far as I know they are no specific issues related to these languages in Kiwix nor in the zimlib. Asaf, if you have such bugs, the best is to open a ticket in the appropriate bug tracker: http://bugzilla.openzim.org/Main_Page or http://bugs.kiwix.org
About the stemming, Xapian (used by Kiwix) has no solution for these languages... this would be a pretty good idea to have a grant for that (at least one language).
Emmanuel
PS: Asaf, what about my Invitation to meet Reg from Moulinwiki in Tel-Aviv?
Manuel
Am 23.03.2010 23:55, schrieb Asaf Bartov:
I may have mentioned this before, but I'll state it again:
Wikimedia Israel has set aside funds (on the order of $3000) to support development of OpenZIM. We hope to encourage work on the specific issues that still hamper successful deployment of right-to-left Wikipedia (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Yiddish), and I was hoping to discuss the specifics with Manuel and whoever else will be attending the upcoming conference in Berlin.
Asaf