Hoi,
Why do you say that it is proprietary and why do you state that there is a
GPL violation ? Making accusations like this without providing evidence is
not what I expect.
When you look at their website you find that the code can be found here ...
so what gives ?
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/9/2 Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>
I want to add that Okawix uses code from the pre-ZIM
GPL'ed ZenoReader and
ZenoWriter which has been developed by the openZIM team before we started
ZIM, but they changed it to be incompatible with Zeno and ZIM.
So Okawix can be regarded to be as proprietary as well as also a GPL
violation.
We have been contacted by Linterweb (the company behind Okawix) several
times
and we also invited them to the developers meeting, but actually they do
not
seem to be able for a collaboration with an open source community.
The Wikimedia Foundation had a similar experience when trying to work with
them.
/Manuel
Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
For you information Okawix is localised at
translatewiki.net.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Okawix
2009/9/2 Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>
> Hi Chengbin, hi list,
>
>
static.wikimedia.org is currently not being updated and while the
dumps
> processing has been assigned to and
completely rewritten by Tomasz Finc
> (developer at WMF), there has not been made any assignment concerning
> HTML dumps.
>
> We had a Wikipedia Offline meeting at Wikimania last week and discussed
> several issues. One issue is the fact, that WMF wants to see the ZIM
file
> format being used for offline dumps and has
suggested to include it
into
> the
> regular dumping process.
> So one question was: When will that happen, what is the status of WMF
ZIM
> dumping?
> As ZIM uses HTML extracts Tomasz clarified that once
> static.wikimedia.orghas been rebuild to be stable and sutainable,
> integrating ZIM would be trivial. But he also informed us that this
task
> has not yet been assigned.
>
> As Brion Vibber and Erik Möller have been at the meeting as well we
hope
> that
> this assignment will be made soon and this task has got higher
priority.
>
> This said I may also advise you not to you use the pure HTML dumps but
> the ZIM
> files for your Archos, because that's what they are meant for.
> A ZIM file containing all german Wikipedia articles (>900,000) is 1,4
GB,
> an
> additional full text search index takes another 1 GB.
>
> Greets,
>
>
> Manuel
>
> Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Chengbin Zheng:
> > I bring this old issue up because I want to know if (or if not)
> > progress (or plans) are made to update the static HTML version of
> > Wikipedia. B&H photos just leaked the next generation of Archos
> > portable media players. Unbelievably, the rumors of a 500GB version
is
> > true! This is already tempting
(especially the price at $420). Just
> > waiting for specs
>
> on
>
> > September 15, the Archos event. I really hope it will support NTFS so
I
>
> can
>
> > use the compression feature.
> >
> > It would be really cool and convenient to have an offline copy of
>
> Wikipedia
>
> > anywhere I go without the need of Wi-Fi. What am I gonna do with
500GB?
BTW, does anyone know what is the size of the current static HTML
English Wikipedia version uncompressed? Thanks.
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