Am Montag, 13. April 2009 schrieb Emmanuel Engelhart:
That would be pretty good, the OLPC bzip2 based storage system is not bad, but it is conceptually linked to bz2 and at least for that reason is not the best solution. We have to convince the OLPC teams that they have only things to win to adopt ZIM, thank you for doing that Manuel.
we have to distinguish here between the "official" OLPC Wikipedia Offline efforts (which you can read about on wikireader@lists.laptop.org - where I am subscribed to but I haven't got any mails since months) and what Asaf is working on.
But anyway: The bz2reader has another major drawback: It parses the content (Wikitext) in the reader, which doesn't really work for templates, parser functions etc. On the other hand you can just use the XML dumps prepared by Wikimedia which eliminates the need of a dumping process and tools. But then we have to remember that the dumping process by Wikimedia is quite unstable and not very regular.
He also had Kiwix on his hard drive and we updated from Subversion, so we realised that also Emmanuel did some work on his code, zim replaced zeno now etc.
Yes, that's true. It works again now after Tommi's big rewrite.
I would like to have Kiwix on the LinuxTag DVD, is that ok? Will it be ready? As far as I know Kiwix also runs on Windows, right?
I had a private discussion with Mike Godwin, the general counselor of the WMF, about the trademarks etc. As we publish the DVD with Wikimedia CH and it is a non-commercial project, I will need the approval from Mike Godwin (every single usage of the Wikipedia logo need approval now), but he is willing to give it to me.
I'm always sceptical about the Foundation, especially concerning the offline contents topic. My experience shows that they were always more a brake than a help... but thank you very much for your lobbying : this is important and I can't do such things ;)
I am also sceptical. We are an independant project, we don't rely on the WMF, so this shouldn't be an issue for us. On the other hand since Erik contacted me out of his own interest, we might benefit from a partnership, anyway it will be like. If we have any ideas or requirements which could be supported by the Foundation this is now the time where we could raise them.
Cheers,
Manuel