Dear Bjoern
First of all, thank you very much for your email. This shows that this
topic is not only about our Wikimedia project, but also about many other
Mediawiki users.
I will try to answer to the ZIM related part of your message.
Le 13/11/2013 12:42, Bjoern Hassler a écrit :
'''Scenario 2: Use on local web
server.''' We would like to be able to
produce a static stand-alone version of the wiki (in html) that can
run off a local web server. It would be good if links to any
non-static content pointed back at the live version (e.g. links to
other namespaces, such as 'Special', as well as 'edit'/history links).
Ideally, the same (or a similar) version could run off a memory stick
for use on netbooks. We have tinkered with some scripts, and there are
other scripts out there: We'd love some help in finding something
robust.
Kiwix-serve is able to serve any ZIM file:
http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-serve
'''Scenario 3: Use on tablets /
phones.''' We would love to have a
version for mobile phones and tablets. Tablets are overtaking netbooks
at the moment, and are starting to become available cheaply. This
comes in two versions:
We have Kiwix for Android which is able to open any ZIM file:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
We want to develop a version for iOS, but for now there no concrete agenda:
http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/IOS
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We'd love to have some advice how we can
achieve this with ZIM. I guess one issue is that we would want to
update our resource, and it would be good if that didn't mean that the
whole resource needs to be downloaded again. The biggest items are
uploads (files, images, audio, video). I think it would be ok for the
wiki text to be re-downloaded, but it would not be feasible for us to
re-download uploads.
We have a still in dev, but already working solution for ZIM incremental
update. This should be available for users in a few months. But, as far
as I can see, you mediawiki is not too big, so the ZIM file shouldn't be
too big to.
The real problem is the ZIM file generation. The future solution based
on Parsoid should allow you (and anyone if your wiki is public) to build
easily a ZIM file of it. For now we need to fix things on Parsoid and
Kiwix side before having a perfectly usable solution.
But, if you achieve to get a dev instance of Parsoid working onr your
wiki, I would be happy to try to build a ZIM file for you:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
Emmanuel
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