Yannick Guigui, 08/11/2013 12:22:
I'm camerounian I built a webapp whose allows students to consult wikipedia articles
So you don't need the originals, only thumbs.
without internet connectivity,many school accepted the application and the application is hosted on a server and shared by wifi on each school.
Nice! It seems you may want to use this existing software solution: http://kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-serve That way, you can use the available ZIM files with no need to generate or download (and compress) the thumbnails yourself. Example: http://www.wikimedia.fr/afripedia Your help developing the software would be very useful and you could avoid doing yourself what you don't have the resources (bandwidth) to do.
I have all the other dumps of wikipedia articles in french and english;but I don't have any image because they are too heavy for me to be downloaded to my side (3 TB) and I have a low bandwidth (40 ko/s when it's fast).
The webapp works on a browser and i don't know if the zim format can be undecompressed to get small images (jpeg,png,svg...).
Kiwix is a browser, you can save anything you want AFAIK.
Nemo
This is the video demo (3min in french) of the webapp :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f-HJhOw1-U
If I get small images in french and english to download to the app,my problem will revolved.
Tank a lot Federico
Le vendredi 8 novembre 2013, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
Yannick Guigui, 08/11/2013 10:11: Please I want to get all images of wikipedia frensh and English, I much did it cost to book it on hardisk? In can't download it because I don't have enought bandwidth from my country. What do you need them for? Originals would be about 2+1 TB and anyone can download and ship them for you: http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/__wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/__fulls/20121201/ <http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20121201/> Otherwise there are the ZIM files with thumbnails compressed, fr.wiki is 14 GB but en.wiki is not available yet. http://download.kiwix.org/zim/__0.9/ <http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/> Nemo