Hi Björn,
Am 18.06.2012 13:41, schrieb Bjoern Hassler:
ZIM would be for desktop use though. That's a definitely a good start, and we should pursue this in parallel. How do you enable ZIM in the Collection extension?
Check out these pages:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
http://mwlib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/collection.html#installation-and-conf...
look for $wgCollectionFormats
However, my understanding is that ZIM files do not allow incremental updates. With our site in Africa, we can only push ~ 10s of MB per night, so incremental updates are essential. We're also looking for a server-based solution, so that we only need to distribute to our low-power server.
Well, out of the box it doesn't do that but it's technically possible and has been discussed a few times. Small ZIM files with updated content can be used in parallel to a base file which holds the initial content. Split ZIM files are already supported out of the box. Tools like zim-merge have been been discussed when talking about incremental updates.
Emmanuel (Kelson) and Tommi can tell us more about this.
/Manuel