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The openZIM project has two different targets:

the ZIM file format, an open, standardized file format to store Wiki content efficiently for offline usage
an open source implementation of the ZIM file format consisting of the zimlib, zimwriter and zimreader

The openZIM project is sponsored by Wikimedia CH and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Currently we support MediaWiki and are working on having creation of ZIM files for all Wikimedia projects. See our mission statement and our roadmap for more information.

News and Events

MediaWiki Developers Meet-Up

April 14th - 16th, 2010

This year Wikimedia Deutschland will again host the yearly MediaWiki Developers Meet-Up in Berlin.

planning page

LinuxTag 2010

June 9th - 12th, 2010

openZIM has applied for a booth and a talk at LinuxTag 2010

Wikipedia DVD LinuxTag 2009
2009-06-24

Our Wikipedia DVD is available on our booth at LinuxTag in Berlin, hall 7.2a booth 113a.

running the zimreader on DVD

bin/zimreader zim/wikip000.zim
  -x zim/wikipedi.zim

report bugs!

Wikimania 2009

August 26th - 28th, 2009

openZIM has presented itself, its goals and delieverables at the annual international Wikimania conference in Buenos Aires. Visit the talk of Manuel Schneider and get in touch with us!

Wikimania website
openZIM - serving the Wikipedia Offline Projects
Video recording of the presentation

Cooperation with Wikimedia Foundation
2009-04-16

In a phone conference with Erik Möller, Brion Vibber and Tomasz Finc of the Wikimedia Foundation and Manuel the goals and deliverables of the openZIM project have been discussed. The WMF aims to include the ZIM file format into their dump process and that they will support openZIM to become the standard offline format for Wikimedia Wikis. Long-term goal is to have a "one-click" functionality inside MediaWiki to create ZIM files on demand. Some more interesting ideas and projects the Wikimedia Foundation is looking forward have been discussed, openZIM may become part of those as well.

openZIM project started
2009-02-22

The first developer meeting of openZIM just took place near Basel (CH). A team consisting Tommi Mäkitalo (Tntnet), Emmanuel Engelhart (Kiwix), Johannes Schauer (OpenMoko) and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH) have been formed. openZIM will provide free documentation and implementation of the ZIM file format, an efficient storage for hypertext data, aimed at offline access to Wikipedia.

Current goal is to present the project at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin and have a Wikipedia DVD with all german articles ready by then as a demonstration object.