Folks,
Coming here by way of the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team pages,
I have a few questions.
Disclaimer :- I am in South Africa, where bandwidth is expensive, so
a lot of my 'fiddling' is done on my server in the USA, where I do not
have b/w limitations.
My interest is to be able to serve wikipedia content off a server in
a classroom - usually a Thin Client setup, but not always, and they
rarely have internet access.
Weak, small clients, networked to a strong server, running linux.
I downloaded a torrent - en.wikipedia.okawix - which appeared to be
a tarball with these contents :-
-rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 571428918 Jul 6 23:24 article.index
-rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 108812163 Jul 6 23:24 article.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 5601891132 Jul 6 23:23 en.wikipedia.zeno
-rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 11 Jun 23 18:58 entry.url
-rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 307 Jul 6 23:23 licence.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 596303890 Jul 6 23:25 word.index
-rw-r--r-- 1 andyr andyr 108108941 Jul 6 23:25 word.map
I see a zeno file - a precursor to the zim format ?
The ZimReader static binary from
http://openzim.org/Releases dated
2009-06-07 (same date as the files above ?) will not read the file.
Am I doing this wrong ?
Secondly, I downloaded wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_beta2.zim
and pointed the ZimReader at this - hoping to browse to server:8080
and read the file. But I have no index, and no search - do I need to get
the index files separately ?
And the css files (?) are in German - do I need to compile my own
reader from svn to get an English reader ?
Can I build a deb (for Ubuntu ?)
Cheers, Andy!