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openZIM deals with the technical issues when webcontent should be usable offline. Especially with big amounts of data, eg. Wikipedia there are many challenges to solve.
openZIM deals with the technical issues when webcontent should be usable offline. Especially with big amounts of data, eg. Wikipedia there are many challenges to solve.


1.000.000 articles (all german Wikipedia, only text) take about 7-8 GB disc space, so they need to be compressed. On the other hand we have to deal with very small devices such as embedded Linux gadgets or mobile phones.
1.000.000 articles (all german Wikipedia, only text) take about 7-8 GB disc space, so they need to be compressed. On the other hand we have to deal with very small devices such as embedded Linux gadgets or mobile phones. We want simple, fast access to random articles and a fulltext search available.


In the past several special solutions for special needs have been implemented by individuals and abonded soonafter. There is no way to update contents for these applications as nobody can tell how it was stored.
In the past several special solutions for special needs have been implemented by individuals and abandoned soonafter. There is no way to update contents for these applications as nobody can tell how it was stored.


openZIM has developped an efficient file format that provides high compression (lzma), fulltext search and that can store all kind of content including images, CSS or JavaScript files. This file format is called ZIM and publicly documented to be implemented and used by everyone who wants to store webcontent offline.
openZIM has developped an efficient file format that provides high compression (lzma), fulltext search and that can store all kind of content including images, CSS or JavaScript files. This file format is called ZIM and publicly documented to be implemented and used by everyone who wants to store webcontent offline.

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