Hi,
Well, Google's translate service is an example of exactly what they were *trying* to block, people hotloading Wikipedia for fun and profit.
I am sure that the intentions are good for what they are doing, people just want to protect wikipedia (including me). I am most interested in learning about how to make a local searchable backup of the full wikipedia, it seems a bit tricky with the xml format. I plan on making a install of apache/lucene/mysql/php/mediawiki and see how it works! :)
ps. there are a lot of question marks in my posts but I am not putting most of them there, all my real questions have been kindly answered so far thanks!
cheers, Jamie
Hi Jamie,
Am 17.02.2010 11:41, schrieb Jamie Morken:
am sure that the intentions are good for what they are doing, people just want to protect wikipedia (including me). I am most interested in learning about how to make a local searchable backup of the full wikipedia, it seems a bit tricky with the xml format. I plan on making a install of apache/lucene/mysql/php/mediawiki and see how it works! :)
have you ever looked into openZIM? The ZIM file format offers a highly compressed storage which includes a fulltext search index.
Currently there are Kiwix as a GUI reader application and the zimreader as a webserver available, along with special readers for embedded devices etc.
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on providing regular ZIM dumps of their wikis along with the SQL and XML dumps.
/Manuel
* Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch [Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:14:56 +0100]:
have you ever looked into openZIM? The ZIM file format offers a highly compressed storage which includes a fulltext search index.
Currently there are Kiwix as a GUI reader application and the
zimreader
as a webserver available, along with special readers for embedded devices etc.
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on providing regular ZIM dumps of their wikis along with the SQL and XML dumps.
/Manuel
Certainly, a regularly updated compact offline version would be great for many purposes (eg. educational). I hope that reader will be available for different platforms, including the mobile ones (mobile internet here in developing countries is not so cheap comparing to ADSL). Dmitriy
Dear Dimitri
There is also : http://www.okawix.com/
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- Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch [Wed, 17 Feb 2010
14:14:56 +0100]:
have you ever looked into openZIM? The ZIM file format offers a highly compressed storage which includes a fulltext search index.
Currently there are Kiwix as a GUI reader application and the
zimreader
as a webserver available, along with special readers for embedded devices etc.
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on providing regular ZIM dumps of their wikis along with the SQL and XML dumps.
/Manuel
Certainly, a regularly updated compact offline version would be great for many purposes (eg. educational). I hope that reader will be available for different platforms, including the mobile ones (mobile internet here in developing countries is not so cheap comparing to ADSL). Dmitriy
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* Pascal Martin pmartin@linterweb.fr [Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:00:41 +0100]:
Dear Dimitri
There is also : http://www.okawix.com/
Let's hope for mobile versions someday. I know, such kind of projects are advancing mostly by enthusiasm, not much funding, probably. Good luck! Dmitriy
Am 18.02.2010 09:00, schrieb Pascal Martin:
There is also : http://www.okawix.com/
thanks Pascal, just after sending my mail I realised that I forgot to mention Okawix.
Is the ZIM integration already done? That would be awesome!
/Manuel
Am 18.02.2010 07:37, schrieb Dmitriy Sintsov:
I hope that reader will be available for different platforms, including the mobile ones (mobile internet here in developing countries is not so cheap comparing to ADSL).
Kiwix runs on Windows and Linux, the zimreader (which is just a command line tool and provides a webserver to serve ZIM contents) runs on any Un*x system.
openZIM provides libzim which can be used in arbitrary software to easily integrate the ZIM file format. Eg. Vido is using libzim to provide Wikipedia contents on the Ben NanoNote (a 8 MB flash handheld device). openMoko has made a reader using libzim as well.
There is no application for Symbian, iPhone or similar available yet, but we would like to see something like that. Developers with knowledge about these systems are needed, though...
/Manuel
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