Roadmap

See also current Status and next steps.

Until end of 2009

• Finalizing ZIM file format
  • ZIM file header:
    • add Pointer to UrlPointerList (IndexPointerList will be named "TitlePointerList")
    • add Pointer to MimeTypeList
  • ZIM file structure:
    • add UrlPointerList (article list ordered by URL)
    • add MimeTypeList to store MimeTypes in a zero-terminated list
    • make new integer compression (UTF-8 compression / ZInt compression)
    • break version number into major / minor number
  • Directory Entry:
    • drop QUnicode on article titles
    • add URL
    • add rev_id int compressed
  • Index Namespace (X)
    • switch to new int compression

Later

• Layout Namespace (A / B)
  • A - HTML body
  • B - HTML header template
  • reader sets flag when loading library if it wants to get HTML body or full layout using header template
  • MIME types used
    • html-body
    • html-layout

• Cluster compression
  • add LZMA compression
  • switch to compression streaming (only keep in memory what is really needed)

• Packaging
  • Debian maintainer, contact by Tommi
  • RPM? - maybe openSuSE buildservice
  • static binaries should be updated regularly
  • Emmanuel adds Microsoft Visual Studio project file to SVN

• Category Namespace (U / V)
  • U contains standard article text
  • V contains article pointers to articles within that category
• Metadata Namespace (M) - these fields should be available as variables for layout templates
  • "language" - ISO Code 639-3
  • "creator"
  • "date" - YYYYMMDD
  • "description"
  • "relation"
  • "source" - URL

• ZIM export running on http://download.wikimedia.org/
  • work in MW API
  • dumper has to add license name and link to the HTML content

• Updating
  • tool to merge two ZIM files

June 2009

• 1. openZIM release of a Wikipedia DVD for LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin.