Hi Asaf,
this is great! Do you can provide an download link, I'm curious about the result?
I do not know if you have include pictures in the dump, but if yes you can reduce the ZIM file size by 10-20% by using the ./optimizeContents.pl script and the --mediawikiOptim paramter.
If you achieve to do what you said, this would be wonderful, and certainly the first big deployement of the ZIM format.
About the Kiwix UI translation, this would be also great and pretty easy to do. I'm especialy interesting in it, because Hebrew would be the first translation of Kiwix with a language written from right to left. If you have time you can simply come to #kiwix on freenode and I will explain you how to do and give you the SVN access to upload translated files.
Congratulations Emmanuel
Le mer 01/07/09 15:47, Asaf Bartov asaf.bartov@gmail.com a écrit:
Hi, everyone.
Im pleased to announce that, with many thanks to Emmanuel and Tommi, Ive finally managed to create a ZIM file based on a Hebrew Wikipedia dump. We are now finally able to begin evaluating it as a solution to our offline project of embedding a Hebrew Wikipedia on every computer distributed with the One Computer Per Child initiative of the Israeli government.
We shall be concentrating a list of bugs and/or issues and bring them to this list. Once the main developers have a look at it, well gladly help with fixing it, too. Also, we shall be contributing a Hebrew interface to Kiwix.
More to follow in the coming week or two.
Thanks again to everyone who helped!
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Israel -- Asaf Bartov
Hi, Emmanuel.
The file is at http://benyehuda.org/zim/hewiki.zim It weighs about 300MB. No pictures.
A fellow WM-IL member named Rotem Simha (alias Hidro) will be doing a lot of the initial testing. Expect to hear from him soon :)
Asaf
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, emmanuel@engelhart.org wrote:
Hi Asaf,
this is great! Do you can provide an download link, I'm curious about the result?
I do not know if you have include pictures in the dump, but if yes you can reduce the ZIM file size by 10-20% by using the ./optimizeContents.pl script and the --mediawikiOptim paramter.
If you achieve to do what you said, this would be wonderful, and certainly the first big deployement of the ZIM format.
About the Kiwix UI translation, this would be also great and pretty easy to do. I'm especialy interesting in it, because Hebrew would be the first translation of Kiwix with a language written from right to left. If you have time you can simply come to #kiwix on freenode and I will explain you how to do and give you the SVN access to upload translated files.
Congratulations Emmanuel
Le mer 01/07/09 15:47, Asaf Bartov asaf.bartov@gmail.com a écrit:
Hi, everyone.
Im pleased to announce that, with many thanks to Emmanuel and Tommi, Ive finally managed to create a ZIM file based on a Hebrew Wikipedia dump. We are now finally able to begin evaluating it as a solution to our offline project of embedding a Hebrew Wikipedia on every computer distributed with the One Computer Per Child initiative of the Israeli government.
We shall be concentrating a list of bugs and/or issues and bring them to this list. Once the main developers have a look at it, well gladly help with fixing it, too. Also, we shall be contributing a Hebrew interface to Kiwix.
More to follow in the coming week or two.
Thanks again to everyone who helped!
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Israel -- Asaf Bartov