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We will do the mentoring in a team. As we are all working on this project during our free time and all have real jobs during the day, we spread the tasks involved in mentoring so we can back up each other. | We will do the mentoring in a team. As we are all working on this project during our free time and all have real jobs during the day, we spread the tasks involved in mentoring so we can back up each other. | ||
* Tommi Mäkitalo (tntnet) - main openZIM developer, will take care for technical questions | * '''Tommi Mäkitalo''' (tntnet) - main openZIM developer, will take care for technical questions | ||
* Manuel Schneider (x80686) - openZIM project leader, will take care for all the paper stuff, evaluation etc., is available through IRC during the day | * '''Manuel Schneider''' (x80686) - openZIM project leader, will take care for all the paper stuff, evaluation etc., is available through IRC during the day | ||
For coordination there will be regular IRC and Mumble meetings with the students and mentors. The schedule of this meetings should be at least twice a week and will be fixed as soon as the participants are fixed. | For coordination there will be regular IRC and Mumble meetings with the students and mentors. The schedule of this meetings should be at least twice a week and will be fixed as soon as the participants are fixed. | ||
== Idea 1: MediaWiki extension to create ZIM files == | |||
* content selection by user: | * content selection by user: | ||
** add a selector to each article "include this article" | ** add a selector to each article "include this article" | ||
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** retrieve HTML content of an article - only content section | ** retrieve HTML content of an article - only content section | ||
== Idea 2: zimreader for mobile phones == | |||
make a HTML viewer that uses zimlib to show contents on a mobile phone | make a HTML viewer that uses zimlib to show contents on a mobile phone | ||
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Student can decide which platform he / she likes better. | Student can decide which platform he / she likes better. | ||
== openZIM GSoC Ideas in the context of Wikimedia Strategy == | |||
see also http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Recommendations/Offline | |||
openZIM provides a solution - or at least a part of it - to most of the Wikimedia Offline proposals in the Wikimedia Strategy. | |||
=== WMF Strategy: Outline for Recommendation #1 - content reuse from WMF projects === | |||
this is our target goal. With ZIM we provide a very efficient format which works for a variety of data types (hypertext, images and other files, categories...) and on a broad variety on platforms and devices (eg. it's optimized for very limited devices like handhelds). As an open documented standard and by the availability of GPLed libraries it can be easily be integrated in any reader application (severals are already available). ZIM files of all sources can be exchanged with any reader application and thus enables easy reuse of Wikimedia content. | |||
The Foundation has decided to include ZIM as a regular dump file format. Other works have to be done before this can happen - namely fixing static dumps, Tomasz Finc is already working on that on Wikimedia's side. | |||
Currently creating ZIM files involves a lot of manual work. Several publishers use different tools like Perl scripts to gather the content from MediaWiki and put it into a database. The libzim currently has an interface to read these contents from a database or other ZIM files to create new ZIM files. So automated ZIM file creation is still a missing gap. | |||
;Idea: MediaWiki extension to create ZIM files | |||
# Having a "one-click function" to export selected articles from MediaWiki was one of the first ideas the Wikimedia Foundation had when they decided to adopt ZIM. So this idea will become reality, enabling all users of MediaWiki to easily produce ZIM files, spreading the file format more widely and making it more usable outside Wikimedia. | |||
# While the static dumps are being fixed we can prepare the next step in the automated ZIM file creation. The libzim interface for the MediaWiki extension can be simply reused. | |||
=== WMF Strategy: Outline of offline recommendation #2: Use of cellphones === | |||
As described in #1 the file format is very efficient and has been optimized for usage on devices with limited ressources. | |||
;Idea: zimreader for mobile phones | |||
We don't have specific knowledge on how to write code for cell phones, but we have all the components - file format, free implementation, library - in place. So we had the idea of finding somebody to write sample application for the cell phone of his / her choice as a start. | |||
=== WMF Strategy: Outline for Recommendation #3 - Schools === | |||
ZIM is already used at schools, mainly the Kiwix project (an user of openZIM) is very active in that area. Having a standardized format as described in #1 helps to provide schools with a large variety of compatible content which is updated frequently. | |||
Beside that openZIM is working with Linux4Africa as they are about to adopt the ZIM file format using the openZIM zimreader application as a local webserver on their school servers. | |||