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''Since 2008 we are working on a free implementation of a toolchain for offline Wikipedia, providing a container format, reader and writer softare. The first attempt was based on the Zeno file format used by Directmedia, the publisher of the Wikipedia DVD. The Wikipedia DVD 2008/2009 contained a free implementation developed by the people who form today the openZIM project and was the start of the openZIM project.'' | ''Since 2008 we are working on a free implementation of a toolchain for offline Wikipedia, providing a container format, reader and writer softare. The first attempt was based on the Zeno file format used by Directmedia, the publisher of the Wikipedia DVD. The Wikipedia DVD 2008/2009 contained a free implementation developed by the people who form today the openZIM project and was the start of the openZIM project.'' | ||
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Starting 2009 openZIM defines itself as "a free and open implementation of the ZIM file format", while openZIM provides both a free documentation of the file format as well as the tools to create ZIM files from web content and a reader to present them in a browser. Inspired by the Zeno format ZIM means "Zeno Improved".'' | ''Starting 2009 openZIM defines itself as "a free and open implementation of the ZIM file format", while openZIM provides both a free documentation of the file format as well as the tools to create ZIM files from web content and a reader to present them in a browser. Inspired by the Zeno format ZIM means "Zeno Improved".'' | ||
''While the open documentation of the ZIM file format enables everyone to write software using it, openZIM also provides tools to create ZIM files from HTML and a reader application that allows to browse the content in a standard internet browser along with some advanced tools. These are all based on zimlib, a library written in C++ that can be easily used in other applications to make them ZIM-aware.'' | ''While the open documentation of the ZIM file format enables everyone to write software using it, openZIM also provides tools to create ZIM files from HTML and a reader application that allows to browse the content in a standard internet browser along with some advanced tools. These are all based on zimlib, a library written in C++ that can be easily used in other applications to make them ZIM-aware.'' | ||
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Since our start we released two versions of the ZIM format, the first version was spread in the public during LinuxTag 2009 when Wikimedia CH sponsored a batch of 500 editions of the german Wikipedia on DVD as free give-aways which gave us a lot of valuable feedback.'' | ''Since our start we released two versions of the ZIM format, the first version was spread in the public during LinuxTag 2009 when Wikimedia CH sponsored a batch of 500 editions of the german Wikipedia on DVD as free give-aways which gave us a lot of valuable feedback.'' | ||
''During our first year we have been able to attract partners such as the Wikimedia Foundation that is working on a regular ZIM export on MediaWiki, the Israelian OLPC project that wants to provide hebrew Wikipedia on XO computers or a manufacturer of embedded devices which presents Wikipedia Offline on a device with only 8 MB of RAM. Most of these people gathered to a Developers Meeting and we are very happy that we were able to cover all of the needs that occured to us, even though some of them seemed to be mutually exclusive at the first glance.'' | ''During our first year we have been able to attract partners such as the Wikimedia Foundation that is working on a regular ZIM export on MediaWiki, the Israelian OLPC project that wants to provide hebrew Wikipedia on XO computers or a manufacturer of embedded devices which presents Wikipedia Offline on a device with only 8 MB of RAM. Most of these people gathered to a Developers Meeting and we are very happy that we were able to cover all of the needs that occured to us, even though some of them seemed to be mutually exclusive at the first glance.'' | ||