Why did you decide to go with your own custom solution (that's what is
implied by your message, sorry if it's not the
case) instead of
contributing to Kiwix so that other projects can
benefit from this all
; aka the reader, the tools, the standard, etc.
Sorry if you find it offensive. I never meant it like that. We released the
CD/DVD in 2010 April. The reasons for developing Wiki2CD is documented at
http://thottingal.in/blog/2010/04/17/mlwikioncd/ and
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/creating-malayalam-wikipedia-cd/
I agree though that schools-targeted versions should include
school-friendly content (whatever that means
locally) ; that's why SOS
version is so successful.
That itself is the reason. English SOS version is very good. My point is,
all offline versions that are targeting the schools (including Hindi and
Marathi) should be created in the same way.
Yeah
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:44 PM, renaud gaudin <rgaudin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Shiju Alex
<shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Malayalam wiki community has indeed tried the
Kiwix solution before we
decided to develop our own solution. It is sad to find that still Kiwix
is
not in a state where we can create the CD/DVD
with out the
developer/expert
support. But it is good to see that the issue
with non-latin
scripts/fonts
are fixed. But the article selection feature
needs to be enabled for
Kiwix
so that any one can create their own version of
Wikipedia CD (as can be
done
using Wiki2CD).
I agree Kiwix should provide an easy way to create a custom selection
and make a ZIM of it.
It is not disabled or hidden ; everything is documented on the Kiwix
wiki and sources are available.
The problem is that it's difficult and painful.
What we could do is create a tool on top of existing ones that would
allow easy selection/zim-creation.
Why did you decide to go with your own custom solution (that's what is
implied by your message, sorry if it's not the case) instead of
contributing to Kiwix so that other projects can benefit from this all
; aka the reader, the tools, the standard, etc.
I find it offensive to the only spare-time developer of Kiwix that you
reproach the lack of features but still decide to build something on
your own.
But the point here is not the software, whether
we need to provide whole
dump of a wiki to schools. Definitely I am not for it due to my
experience
with the Malayalam Wikipedia CD.
Can you elaborate ? This is very fuzzy.
I agree though that schools-targeted versions should include
school-friendly content (whatever that means locally) ; that's why SOS
version is so successful.
renaud
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