On 4/7/07, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
As part of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, I hope that you will enjoy and use our work, and we hope to provide you with more news of this kind soon.
Hi,
I downloaded the iso image and had a few minutes to play with it. Congratulations and thank you for doing this work.
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).
There are no wikilinks present (despite its lack of use on such a selection)
the search engine works fine, as far as I can tell.
I am not sure if the current solution can be considerered license compliant with the GFDL.
I was unable to find the source code for the kiwix software somewhere.
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).
Greetings, Mathias