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== The great Goals ==
Our mission is to '''make web content available offline''', with a primary focus on [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and [http://www.wikimedia.org/ other Wikimedia projects].
Our target is to make Wiki content offline available, especially contents from Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.


The general goals we want to achieve:
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.
* the file format is the most efficient and works on all platforms, embedded devices and desktop computers
* the file format is used by all kind of publishers and even outside the Wikimedia community
* both reader applications and content files are freely interchangeable
* everyone can implement software for this file format because it is an open and documented standard
* there is at least one free implementation which is open source
* the free implementation can be used easily in other software to make it easy to use the file format without having to implement it


== Our way to achieve these Goals ==
We even believe the file format could be flexible enough to support any kind of web data:
=== The [[ZIM File Format]] ===
* The ZIM file format is the most efficient and works on all platforms, embedded devices and desktop computers.
* compresses 900.000 articles (full german Wikipedia beginning 2009) to only 1.3 GB
* The ZIM file format is used by all kind of publishers, even outside the Wikimedia community.
* features a fulltext search index
* Both ZIM reader applications and ZIM files are freely interchangeable.
* features native category and image handling similar to MediaWiki
* Everyone can implement software for ZIM files because it is in a open and documented standard.
* is fully documented on this website - [[ZIM File Format]]
* 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]].
* if you need help implementing it just contact our [[Mailinglists|mailinglist]]
* The [[libzim]] can be used easily in other software to make it easy to use the file format without having to implement it.
* we are working on a [[ZIM File Archive]] to provide a central place to publish ZIM files including mirroring etc.


=== The openZIM implementation ===
== See also ==
* is all free and open source (GPL)
* [[Features]]
* is based on [[ZIMlib]], a library written in C++
* [[Roadmap]]
* provides a [[ZIMwriter]] to create ZIM files from a HTML dump (eg. a prepared database)
* provides a [[ZIMreader]] as an example how to read ZIM files; ZIMreader acts as a local webserver
* there are some more tools such as the [[ZIMdumper]] to have a look into ZIM files or check them
 
== What openZIM is NOT ==
* we are not going to create Wikipedia dumps or publishing own content in ZIM files
* we are a team of volunteers and enthusiasts, not a business
* we might not be able to provide you with a implementation in your favourite programming language
* maybe we can not add a feature especially for you (if it doesn't fit in the openZIM goals)
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