OpenZIM

The openZIM project has two different targets: the ZIM file format, an open, standardized file format to store Wiki content efficiently for offline usage an open source implementation of the ZIM file format consisting of the zimlib, zimwriter and zimreader The openZIM project is sponsored by Wikimedia CH and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Currently we support MediaWiki and are working on having creation of ZIM files for all Wikimedia projects. See our mission statement and our roadmap for more information.		News and Events   edit Wikimania 2011 August 2nd - 7th During the Hacking Days (Aug. 2nd/3rd), prior to Wikimania 2011 (Aug. 4th - 7th), we will have our 4th Developers Meeting. The Hacking Days / Wikimania / Developers Meeting takes place in Haifa, Israel. Wikimania 2011 website. WikiOnBoard released to Ovi Store 2011-07-21 Get the WikiOnBoard ZIM Reader for your Symbian / Nokia device: http://store.ovi.com/content/148305 Source code is available here: http://github.com/cip/WikiOnBoard Make ZIM files now easily with Collection Extension 2011-03-09 Today Wikimedia Foundation announced that the Collection Extension for MediaWiki, developed by PediaPress, is now able to create ZIM files. So you can easily select the content you want and just export a ZIM file. Announcement on the Technical Blog Extension page 3rd Delevopers Meeting 2010-10-19 We had our Developers Meeting on October 15th to 17th in Strasbourg. Read our report. ZIM and LZMA2 for Java 2011-06-09 Arunesh Mathur is developing a ZIMReader in Java for developers who are interested in making Android and J2ME based offline readers. Find the code here: http://svn.openzim.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/zimreader-java/ Lasse Collin has ported LZMA2 to Java. You can download the source and the docs over here: http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html Feel free to contribute. Lasse's code is open source software. Wikimania 2010 July 9th - 11th, 2010 At the yearly international Wikimedia conference, this year in Gdansk (PL) there will be a long Wikipedia Offline workshop where openZIM is involved (Friday 9th, 2 - 6 pm). Also many of the openZIM team are participating at Wikimania. Meet us in Gdansk! Abstract of Creating offline version of Wiki content - Solutions and Challenges Wikimania 2010 website Wikipedia DVD LinuxTag 2009 2009-06-24 Our Wikipedia DVD is available on our booth at LinuxTag in Berlin, hall 7.2a booth 113a. running the zimreader on DVD bin/zimreader zim/wikip000.zim -x zim/wikipedi.zim report bugs! Wikimania 2009 August 26th - 28th, 2009 openZIM has presented itself, its goals and delieverables at the annual international Wikimania conference in Buenos Aires. Visit the talk of Manuel Schneider and get in touch with us! Wikimania website openZIM - serving the Wikipedia Offline Projects Video recording of the presentation Cooperation with Wikimedia Foundation 2009-04-16 In a phone conference with Erik Möller, Brion Vibber and Tomasz Finc of the Wikimedia Foundation and Manuel the goals and deliverables of the openZIM project have been discussed. The WMF aims to include the ZIM file format into their dump process and that they will support openZIM to become the standard offline format for Wikimedia Wikis. Long-term goal is to have a "one-click" functionality inside MediaWiki to create ZIM files on demand. Some more interesting ideas and projects the Wikimedia Foundation is looking forward have been discussed, openZIM may become part of those as well. openZIM project started 2009-02-22 The first developer meeting of openZIM just took place near Basel (CH). A team consisting Tommi Mäkitalo (Tntnet), Emmanuel Engelhart (Kiwix), Johannes Schauer (OpenMoko) and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH) have been formed. openZIM will provide free documentation and implementation of the ZIM file format, an efficient storage for hypertext data, aimed at offline access to Wikipedia. Current goal is to present the project at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin and have a Wikipedia DVD with all german articles ready by then as a demonstration object. Press Release
Users Get a ZIM reader Download a ZIM file File a Bug	Publishers Why you should use ZIM Get ZIM writer software Make your ZIM files Publish your ZIM File
Developers Get the code Subversion Releases Using zimlib Zimlib Get in contact with other developers Mailinglist - IRC: #openzim at Freenode Developer Meetings Project Team Ongoing work Roadmap File a Bug Known Bugs Development Tools ZIM file format documentation ZIM File Format Zeno File Format (german, for historical use only)
General Advertising Visuals Press Releases ZIM and openZIM in the Media 2011-01- Kenya London News Kenya Schools benefit from Wikimedia 2011-03-16 Wikimedia Blog Update on Offline Wikipedia Projects 2011-03-09 Wikimedia Technical Blog Update on Offline Wikimedia projects openZIM now part of the Collection extension of PediaPress - all MediaWiki installations using PediaPress can now easily export ZIM files 2010-10-25 Wikimedia Kenya Project for Kenyan Schools 2010-09-16 Wikimedia Israel Wikipedia Goes To Africa -- Israeli Students to Leave for Humanitarian Work in Africa, Equipped With Portable Static Wikipedia 2010-03-26 Linux.com A Review: Ben NanoNote Gets Small with Embedded Linux "...A wide variety of user applications are under development by the community, including some that lean towards embedded device usage (such as the Rockbox digital music player and Vido offline-Wikipedia reader)...." 2010-03-01 Wizzy Africa Kiwix install at Kwena Malapo school Johannesberg 2009-12-07 Wikipedia & Linterweb Okawix and openZIM (english) Okawix et openZIM (français) Okawix und openZIM (deutsch) Okawix y openZIM (español) 2009-10-22 Project Paroli Wikipedia disconnects! (englisch) 2009-07-29 Openmoko Community Updates/2009-07-23 2009-06-26 heise online LinuxTag: Aktualisierte Wikipedia-DVD (deutsch)