Zimpedia

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Submitted by mkiol on Sat, 02/09/2019 - 16:43
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Zimpedia is an offline reader for Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. It provides localhost HTTP server that serves content of local ZIM repository.

The ZIM is an open file format that stores wiki content for offline usage. Its primary focus is on the contents of Wikipedia but also other Wiki projects like Wikivoyage are supported.

The collection of nice wikis in ZIM format can be downloaded from Kiwix project website.

To make Zimpedia work, put your favorite ZIM files to any folder under your device home directory or SD card.

Source code (GitHub): https://github.com/mkiol/Zimpedia

Translations: https://www.transifex.com/mkiol/zimpedia or Github pull-request or just send translation file to zimpedia[at]mkiol.net.

Issues/feature requests: https://github.com/mkiol/Zimpedia/issues

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Application versions: 
AttachmentSizeDate
File harbour-zimpedia-2.2.3-1.armv7hl.rpm1.02 MB14/12/2018 - 21:49
File harbour-zimpedia-2.2.3-1.i486.rpm1.16 MB14/12/2018 - 21:49
File harbour-zimpedia-2.2.4-1.armv7hl.rpm7.1 MB09/02/2019 - 16:43
File harbour-zimpedia-2.2.4-1.i486.rpm7.44 MB09/02/2019 - 16:43
Changelog: 

2.2.4-1

  • Search improvements
  • Hungarian and Dutch translations (thanks to Nathan Follens and Szabó G)

2.2.3-1 (harbour release)

  • Chinese translation (zh-CN) - thanks to 涛 匡

2.2.2-1

  • A few UI fixes for the Light Ambiences
  • Spanish translation update (thanks to Carmen F. B.)

2.2.1-1

  • Chinese & Swedish translations update (thanks to Jeff Huang and Åke Engelbrektson)

2.2.0-1

  • LibZIM update and support for latest ZIM file format
  • Full-text search option

2.0.1-1

  • French  translation (thanks to lutinotmalin)

2.0.0-5

  • Czech translation update (thanks to RikudouSage)
  • Chinese (zh_TW) new translation (thanks to Jeff Huang)
  • Bug fix: ZIM file icon did not show up if cache directory didn't exist

2.0.0-4 (harbour release)

  • Spanish, German & Swedish translations update (thanks to Carmen F. B., popanz & Åke Engelbrektson)
  • Bug fixes

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crakby's picture

crakby

Wed, 09/05/2018 - 21:13

It does not find my *.zim file on sd-card on xperiax.
Where does it look for the sd-card? Maybe I can make a symlink.

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mkiol

Wed, 09/05/2018 - 22:28

Zimpedia searches for any *.zim files in any directories under: /home/nemo and /media/sdcard. Symlinks are skipped from search acctually.

Where do you put you zim file?

 

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crakby

Thu, 09/06/2018 - 00:41

Yes, a new zim file format. Don't work anymore with older clients:

kiwix forum

kiwix forum

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crakby

Thu, 09/06/2018 - 00:29

ok, thanks. I found out, that the wikivoyage.zim ist working, the wikipedia_2018_06.zim not. The checksum is ok, I downloaded it twice. I thnk it has something to do with this post:

kiwix forum

seems, they have a newer zim format now. I first try now to download the 2018_05 version and give them a try.

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mkiol

Thu, 09/06/2018 - 15:11

Ooo! Thanks for the info. I will try to update ZIM library in my code. New release will be soon.

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crakby

Thu, 09/06/2018 - 23:07

Here is a temporary solution:

edit zim file with hex editor

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geher

Sat, 10/07/2017 - 16:42

Desktop the version can use images that split to 2 Gbytes volumes.
Zimpedia can't.
It would be convenient for the SD card with FAT

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mkiol

Sat, 10/07/2017 - 17:41

You right. I will try to implement (maybe next release) splited files as well. In the meantime, the workaroud is to format SD card with ext4 file system.

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DameCENO

Thu, 06/01/2017 - 14:24

Finally a built-in web viewer!!! Thanks a million man.

Can you send me the french translation file? I can contribute in my own way from that perspective. I am still not conversant on how to use transifex plus it is easier on me and can do it at any leasure time without connecting to the net.

Does this new version require Sailfish OS 2.1? Tried installing it but nothing provides QT5 was the error i got

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mkiol

Mon, 06/05/2017 - 07:46

> Can you send me the french translation file

Sure. You can download it from https://github.com/mkiol/Zimpedia/tree/master/sailfish/translations

> Does this new version require Sailfish OS 2.1

I tested it only on SOS 2.1, but I should be working on any 2.x. "Nothing provides QT5.." - that sounds pretty weird.

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Pelzlurch

Mon, 05/29/2017 - 11:33

Great new version, thanx a lot!

 

One question, is it possible to search case unsensitiv? That would make it easier to find things.

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mkiol

Tue, 05/30/2017 - 13:01

I will research it but it seams that there is no easy way to implement case-insensitive search. Here is link to github issue: https://github.com/mkiol/Zimpedia/issues/16

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Pelzlurch

Tue, 05/30/2017 - 16:00

Thanx for looking into it. If i can support zimpedia in any way, except programming (unfortunatly no skills on my side) let me know.
 

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Ygorr

Sun, 03/19/2017 - 15:49

A lot of time dreamed about this app. Thank you very much. But now is needed another feature.

As far as project data changes and extends  аsynchronously for different languages;  and ecspecially I used 4+ languages to get what I need:
Please  implement function to read wikipage online with saving them to read offline later(page changes view also preferable).

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mkiol

Tue, 05/30/2017 - 13:21

Thank you for your suggestion and for finding Zimpedia useful!

> function to read wikipage online with saving them to read offline

Sorry, but it goes much beyond the scope of what Zimpedia should be. Zimpedia serves data that are stored inside local ZIM repositories. I don't want to change this approach.

> I used 4+ languages to get what I need

I'm planning to add feature that allows to simultaneous search multiple ZIM files. Maybe it is a solution for your use case.

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rolfa

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 23:41

Finally with 1.1-0 large zim files work on the tablet. Thanks a lot!

Maybe the file browser could be improved to show the path and file sizes.

And once a zim is open, I would like to see the startpage of that zim or at least the name of the currently opened zim (like in Kiwix).

 

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mkiol

Fri, 03/25/2016 - 11:55

Thanks for ideas. All will be in next release.

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hoodlum

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 19:37

how can I help with translation?

https://www.transifex.com/ ?

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mkiol

Fri, 03/25/2016 - 12:00

If you are familir with QT translation tool, please make Github's pull-request with new ts file - https://github.com/mkiol/Zimpedia/tree/master/sailfish/translations.

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TMavica

Thu, 01/14/2016 - 23:08

Chinese (ZH) wikipedia not working, after seaching, it come out with a link ......??????.html

so nil found

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ferlanero

Tue, 01/12/2016 - 05:15

Great job!

An accesible offline Wikipedia is perfect in a mobile phone :)

But I have an issue. I have dowloaded the full Spanish Wikipedia non-indexed zim file (http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_es_all.zim). Everything works fine, but when I open an article, the images don't show, only a question mark inside a blue square. Is posible to fix that problem?

Thanks again mkiol for your effort bringing us the knowledge!

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mkiol

Tue, 01/12/2016 - 09:50

Unfortunately your ZIM file is too large for me to do test. Anyway, please check latest version (1.0-5). I've fixed few bugs and maybe one of them was causing the problem.

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ferlanero

Tue, 01/12/2016 - 12:42

Hi mkiol!

First of all, thank you very much for your efforts! Your new version of Zimpedia works flawlessly now. At last, files till 12Gb works perfect with Zimpedia 1.0-5 on Sailfish 2.0.0.10 in a SDCard of 32Gb with BTRFS file system.

If you need testers I can test very large files without problem, so ask me if you need.

Thank you very much again for your work!

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Pelzlurch

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 20:34

I have found a further quite strange issue. I don't know if Zimpedia or the ZIM file itself is responsible for this bahaviour:

There are some articles which opens the wrong thing. For Example if you seach the German wikipdia for Fuß (which means foot) the article Fuad is opened (which is an arabian first name)

Edit: I've checked it now with kiwix. Here the correct article gets opened.

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mkiol

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 20:04

@pelzlurch

Thank you for finding this bug. There was an issue in parsing non-latin characters. It will be fixed in next release.

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rolfa

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 13:49

Thanks a lot, works fine from SD card.

Does it also support pre-indexed ZIMs?

 

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mkiol

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 14:43

@rolfa Additional index (pre-indexed ZIM = ZIM file + index) is needed to search by any word in text. Unfortunately this is not supported. Only searching by Title is possible.

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Marius

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 12:12

Fantastic, I was waiting for that for long long time! thanks! BTW are there ZIM files with page formatting which fits better to small phone screen?

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mkiol

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 20:28

@Marius

Unfortunately all ZIM files I found are packed for desktop. As a workaround, in latest version, I've added option to increase the font size of the web page. It is not perfect solution, but reading experience is a little bit better.

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Pelzlurch

Sun, 01/03/2016 - 22:08

Thanks a lot! Now the German Wiki works and even from the SD-Card. Great!

One small issue: Everytime when you want to open a new entry you have to close the browser, otherwise the the prvious opened entry is shown and nothing else happens.

Is there a possibility to donate you some beers?

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