Greetings All,
Today we enabled openZim (http://openzim.org/Main_Page) export to the existing PediaPress collections extension on English Wikipedia and numerous others. In addition to PDF and ODF, you will now see a new export option when browsing the Download section of the Manage Book interface. You can then easily take these files and use them with the Kiwix offline reader (http://kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page).
We'd love to get some help testing to find bugs and receive feedback. Give the tool a go and let us know what you think!
Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ under
Product: MediaWiki extensions Component: Collection
You can also note your thoughts on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collections/openZim and we'll move them over to Bugzilla.
For those following our offline developments this is the first part of our push into new tools mentioned at http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/update-on-offline-wikimedia-projects/
Come help us make the others a success. Thanks to both Heiko and Volker for their work in making this project successful.
--tomasz
CCing Wikimedia CH as the main sponsor of openZIM...
On 09.03.2011 06:50, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Today we enabled openZim (http://openzim.org/Main_Page) export to the existing PediaPress collections extension on English Wikipedia and numerous others. In addition to PDF and ODF, you will now see a new export option when browsing the Download section of the Manage Book interface. You can then easily take these files and use them with the Kiwix offline reader (http://kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page).
thanks a lot for that awesome work and support!
It is really surprising that this all happened quietly in the background ;-)
I am really happy to see this.
/Manuel
Hello,
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
CCing Wikimedia CH as the main sponsor of openZIM...
On 09.03.2011 06:50, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Today we enabled openZim (http://openzim.org/Main_Page) export to the existing PediaPress collections extension on English Wikipedia and numerous others. In addition to PDF and ODF, you will now see a new export option when browsing the Download section of the Manage Book interface. You can then easily take these files and use them with the Kiwix offline reader (http://kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page).
This is really excellent. Thanks for the update. Do we track how much each export option is used?
It is really surprising that this all happened quietly in the background ;-)
I am not surprised, but this does make my day :)
SJ
Hello boys,
I want to thank the whole team that made this possible (OpenZIM). This excellent tool that will help to create books for distribution.
Special thanks to Emmanuel (OpenZIM and Kiwix), who has had the vision to lead the project as cleanly as possible consistent with respecting the philosophy of Wikimedia.
Hopefully it will be possible soon to create a collection ZIM from a wikipedia category (recursive search), this would be very useful in creating sub encyclopedias such as Encyclopedia of Art, Encyclopedia of Biology, Mathematics and overall separation science basic, or even a country encyclopedias (which speaks of a particular country, its geography, history, etc. ..).
P.D. I am currently working on a version 1.0 of the Spanish Wikipedia, I hope you can support this language WikiTrust soon -- Wilfredo Rafael Rodríguez Hernández -------------------------------------------------------- msn,googletalk = wilfredor@gmail.com cv = http://www.wilfredor.co.cc blog = http://wilfredor.blogspot.com fotos = http://picasaweb.google.com/wilfredor/
On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
CCing Wikimedia CH as the main sponsor of openZIM...
On 09.03.2011 06:50, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Today we enabled openZim (http://openzim.org/Main_Page) export to the existing PediaPress collections extension on English Wikipedia and numerous others. In addition to PDF and ODF, you will now see a new export option when browsing the Download section of the Manage Book interface. You can then easily take these files and use them with the Kiwix offline reader (http://kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page).
This is really excellent. Thanks for the update. Do we track how much each export option is used?
It is really surprising that this all happened quietly in the background ;-)
I am not surprised, but this does make my day :)
We've actually been posting about this quite actively in
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/february-wmf-engineering-update/ http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/update-on-offline-wikimedia-projects/ http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/wmf-engineering-update/ http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/12/december-2010-wmf-engineering-update/
and on mailing lists
https://intern.openzim.org/pipermail/dev-l/2011-January/000549.html
and we engaged with multiple community members to help us test the extension in its early form.
If there was some other form of communication that was missed then please let me know and I'll make sure to include it for further projects.
--tomasz
Hi Tomasz,
On 10.03.2011 22:36, Tomasz Finc wrote:
On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
It is really surprising that this all happened quietly in the background ;-)
I am not surprised, but this does make my day :)
We've actually been posting about this quite actively in
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/february-wmf-engineering-update/ http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/update-on-offline-wikimedia-projects/ http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/wmf-engineering-update/ http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/12/december-2010-wmf-engineering-update/
and on mailing lists
https://intern.openzim.org/pipermail/dev-l/2011-January/000549.html
and we engaged with multiple community members to help us test the extension in its early form.
If there was some other form of communication that was missed then please let me know and I'll make sure to include it for further projects.
I didn't meant that I am missing a form of communication. Actually I missed the techblog, but that's a different story.
We were well aware of the idea that WMF and Pediapress wanted to work to make ZIM in Collection extension happen. I expected that there will be a lot of technical questions during the implementation phase which will show up on dev-l, and that didn't happen - what is a good sign.
So we knew that there was an idea and WMF and PediaPress wanted to work on it and it looks like the project wasn't ready yet - and suddenly, it's done, it's here, it works... that's amazing.
/Manuel
I just want to join Manuel. I am very excited about that.
And many thanks for the people, who made that happen.
Tommi
Manuel Schneider, 11/03/2011 07:29:
So we knew that there was an idea and WMF and PediaPress wanted to work on it and it looks like the project wasn't ready yet - and suddenly, it's done, it's here, it works... that's amazing.
I agree, it's really great!
Samuel Klein, 10/03/2011 19:53:
Do we track how much each export option is used?
I would love some statistics as well.
Nemo
I just wanted to let people know that the English Wikipedia Version 0.8 is now available for download. It contains around 47,300 articles taken from all subject areas in the English Wikipedia, with selection based on importance and quality. It was used to test out automated RevisionID selection, with software based on WikiTrust.
Free downloads of Version 0.8 are available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_0.8/downloads Available are: raw ZIM files, or versions bundled with Kiwix or Okawix readers. The Okawix collection recently became available for iPhone/iPad and Android. A BitTorrent release is also under way - please help out with seeding if you can.
Apologies for not posting this sooner.
Martin Walker (User:Walkerma) For the en:Wikipedia Version 1.0 Editorial Team
On Mar 12, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Manuel Schneider, 11/03/2011 07:29:
So we knew that there was an idea and WMF and PediaPress wanted to work on it and it looks like the project wasn't ready yet - and suddenly, it's done, it's here, it works... that's amazing.
I agree, it's really great!
Samuel Klein, 10/03/2011 19:53:
Do we track how much each export option is used?
I'll ask the PediaPress folks to find out what data is available as I've been asking them same questions.
--tomasz