----- Original Message -----
From: "Dmitriy Sintsov" <questpc(a)rambler.ru>
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:
* Manuel Schneider
<manuel.schneider(a)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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