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We focus on extracting and encoding data from [http://www.mediawiki.org Mediawiki] for offline use. We would like to also add support for other [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_engine wiki engines] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system content management systems] so that this can become a ubiquitous file format for offline usages.
We focus on extracting and encoding data from [http://www.mediawiki.org Mediawiki] for offline use. We would like to also add support for other [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_engine wiki engines] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system content management systems] so that this can become a ubiquitous file format for offline usages.


We even believe the file format could be flexible enough to support any kind of web data.
We even believe the file format could be flexible enough to support any kind of web data:
 
== What openZIM is ==
* The ZIM file format is the most efficient and works on all platforms, embedded devices and desktop computers.
* The ZIM file format is the most efficient and works on all platforms, embedded devices and desktop computers.
* The ZIM file format is used by all kind of publishers, even outside the Wikimedia community.
* The ZIM file format is used by all kind of publishers, even outside the Wikimedia community.
* Both ZIM reader applications and ZIM files are freely interchangeable.
* Both ZIM reader applications and ZIM files are freely interchangeable.
* Everyone can implement software for ZIM files because it is in a open and documented standard.
* Everyone can implement software for ZIM files because it is in a open and documented standard.
* There is at least one free implementation which is open source, the [[zimlib]].
* There is at least one free implementation which is open source ([https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPLv2]), the [[libzim]].
* The [[zimlib]] can be used easily in other software to make it easy to use the file format without having to implement it.
* The [[libzim]] can be used easily in other software to make it easy to use the file format without having to implement it.


== What openZIM is not ==
== See also ==
* A publisher or distributor of content saved into the ZIM format. While we will make every effort to help those wanting to this we simply do not have the resources to do it ourselves. We do keep an index of known ZIM adopters at our [[ZIM File Archive|archive]] page.
* [[Features]]
* This project was started by the enthusiasm of [[Project Team|volunteers]] and is mainly driven by them and not business interests.
* [[Roadmap]]
* Due to the small size of the core development team we are not be able to offer up a specific implementation of the ZIM format in your chosen programming language. We hope that by publishing the [[ZIM file format|specifications]] and working together more implementations can be written by the adopters of the format.
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