http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=ZIM 2026-04-22T16:54:24Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ZIM&diff=16446&oldid=prev 2014-03-02T04:21:30Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 04:21, 2 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''ZIM''' is a file format for storing complete dumps of wikis so that they are usable for offline reading, with the entire contents contained in a single, relatively compact file. It is based on the older [[Zeno]] format which is no longer in use.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''ZIM''' is a file format for storing complete dumps of wikis so that they are usable for offline reading, with the entire contents contained in a single, relatively compact file. It is based on the older [[Zeno]] format which is no longer in use.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Identification ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The first four bytes are (hex) &lt;code&gt;5a 49 4d 04&lt;/code&gt;, which represents the long integer &quot;magic number&quot; 72173914 (decimal) in [[Endianness|little-endian]] form. The first three bytes also spell &quot;ZIM&quot; in [[ASCII]]. The two bytes after the first four represent the major and minor version numbers of the file format version.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Format info ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Format info ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://www.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_file_format File format description]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://www.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_file_format File format description]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Sample files ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [http://www.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_File_Example ZIM example, annotated]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Software ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Software ==</div></td></tr> </table>

Dan Tobias http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ZIM&diff=16442&oldid=prev 2014-03-01T19:01:01Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Web |extensions={{ext|zim}} }} &#039;&#039;&#039;ZIM&#039;&#039;&#039; is a file format for storing complete dumps of wikis so that they are usable for offline r...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Web<br /> |extensions={{ext|zim}}<br /> }}<br /> '''ZIM''' is a file format for storing complete dumps of wikis so that they are usable for offline reading, with the entire contents contained in a single, relatively compact file. It is based on the older [[Zeno]] format which is no longer in use.<br /> <br /> == Format info ==<br /> * [http://www.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_file_format File format description]<br /> <br /> == Software ==<br /> * [http://www.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_Readers ZIM readers]<br /> <br /> == Other links ==<br /> * [[Wikipedia:ZIM (file format)|Wikipedia article]]<br /> * [http://www.openzim.org/wiki/Main_Page ZIM Wiki]<br /> * [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-March/074838.html The Whole Wikipedia in English with pictures in one 40GB big file]</div>

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