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The Wikimedia Conference is an annual meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation's developers, sysadmins, the MediaWiki comunity developers and Wikimedia chapter representatives. Manual, Emmanuel, Asaf, Pascal, Fabien and Tomasz participated in the meetings and set up a working group called "Wikimedia Offline". There we met people from PediaPress and started to think about integrating ZIM into the Extension:Collection which is currently used for the book prinitng capabilities of MediaWiki.
The Wikimedia Conference is an annual meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation's developers, sysadmins, the MediaWiki comunity developers and Wikimedia chapter representatives. Manual, Emmanuel, Asaf, Pascal, Fabien and Tomasz participated in the meetings and set up a working group called "Wikimedia Offline". There we met people from PediaPress and started to think about integrating ZIM into the Extension:Collection which is currently used for the book prinitng capabilities of MediaWiki.


Due to this working group - which happened to be dominated by people that are already working with openZIM - many relevant and interested people could be convinced that ZIM is the superior toolkit and format for offline content.
Due to this working group - which happened to be dominated by people that are already working with openZIM - many relevant and interested people could be convinced that ZIM is the superior toolkit and format for offline content. Tomasz presented the decision of the Wikimedia Foundation to use ZIM for dumps and offline products in the future. This was a very helpful statement, in fron of the other developers and admins.


=== June: Participation at LinuxTag ===
=== June: Participation at LinuxTag ===

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