2007/4/8, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com>om>:
I downloaded the iso image and had a few minutes to
play with it.
Congratulations and thank you for doing this work.
Thanks
Here is a short list of my observations (this may
overlap with other
emails in this thread).
The software is, as far as I can see, a modified mozilla rendering
engine with another skin that does display pre-rendered articles from
the CD-ROM. 1964 moderatly long articles take about 112 MB of size
(without images, without search index).
That is true.
There are no wikilinks present (despite its lack of
use on such a selection)
Hmm... you mean interwiki links ?
the search engine works fine, as far as I can tell.
Thx to Linterweb, which has coded this search engine.
I am not sure if the current solution can be
considerered license
compliant with the GFDL.
It is true that a few problem stay open... but we do our best to be
fully GFDL compliant for the next release.
I was unable to find the source code for the kiwix
software somewhere.
http://www.kiwix.org
the current skin consumes quite a lot of space
currently. It also
suggests that this is "the" wikipedia. In the future, it might become
a good offline version of it, until then, it may be confusing to
people as long it is just a very thin selection (...albeit of some of
the finest articles from en.wp).
It is true that this selection is very/too small, this problem will be
always less important with the next release.
Best regards
Kelson