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* Thomas Gries
** has written email notification in MW
** wants to provide Wikipedia to libraries
** on "hardware" such as DVD or similar
** the goal is to have a fixed version with ISBN etc. for archiving reasons
** fixed publication date
* Tomasz Finc
* Asaf Bartov
** embedd a static version of hebrew Wikipedia into the OLPC computers in Israel
** complications with the hebrew language (r-t-l support, stemming...)
** project BenYehuda library for hebrew texts
** rich text
** with diacritics
* Ryan Lane
** needs manuals, handbooks etc. including images, PDF etc.
** HTML dump would be easy, just to copy over the data to the workstation and view in Firefox
** article and image selection is the more pressing problem
* Chun Cui
** looks for a way how to get plain ASCII text out of XML dumps
** for analysis of the language corpus
* Fabien Coulon
** presents Okawix
** using Zeno, but want to switch to ZIM
** automizing the selection of articles
** universal format to describe selections

== Licensing ==
link to history is completely fine
* gives a list of all versions
* gives a list of authors
link to the license text

== Collections ==
use the collections extension from PediaPress to make dumps of collections - can be in any format then

* blacklists needed - eg. for "kosher Wikipedia"

== Hacking ==
working on Collections extension
* seperate the UI from the "backend"
* collection is kept in a PHP array in the session
* make a CLI to run the collection
* add more interfaces for output - PDF (as now), XML, HTML, ZIM

== Offline ==