[KIWIX] New Debian packages for Offline Wikipedia
Dear Debianers,
want to enjoy Wikipedia without Internet, in a school, during a flight,
in your country house... or in Jail? Kiwix is the project the Wikimedia
movement have created to do that. Let me explain quickly what it is.
Kiwix is ZIM file reader. the ZIM format is an open format we have
created to store Web contents. It's highly compressed but at the same
time allow to retrieve content quickly and with really a few HW
resources. Here is the Web site of the project:
http://www.openzim.org
We prepare the big ZIM files, but for small one, anybody can also create
its own selection of articles using the Book creator on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator
Kiwix is a Desktop application based on the Mozilla framework providing
many features, you can have a small overview there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kelson/Kiwix
We also have a HTTP version of our reader called kiwix-serve simply
running from the command line, you may have a look to it there:
http://library.kiwix.org
More information there:
http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Kiwix-serve
I have met Kurt Gramlich at the LinuxTag212, Berlin, Germany, and we
were agree that it could be a good idea to integrate Kiwix to the
Skolelinux server. We have newly a compilation farm generating deb files
for Wheezy and we want to integrate Kiwix to the Debian repository:
* http://mirror.kiwix.org/bin/nightly/latest/
* http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617813
We would be really happy to get any feedbacks about our new Debian
packages and see if this is possible to integrate Kiwix to Skolelinux.
Best regards
Emmanuel Engelhart
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