What is "zim"

Žim is a village and municipality ( obec) in Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.

The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 126 (as at 28 August 2006).

Žim lies approximately south-east of Teplice, south-west of Ústí nad Labem, and north-west of Prague.

Zim is a graphical text editor designed to maintain a collection of locally stored wiki-pages. Each wiki-page can contain text with simple formatting, links to other wiki-pages, attachments, and images. Additional plugins, such as an equation editor and spell-checker, are also available. The wiki-pages are stored in a folder structure in plain text files with wiki formatting.

Zim is written in Python using GTK+ libraries. It is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

The ZIM file format is an open file format that stores wiki content for offline usage. Its primary focus is on the contents of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The format allows for the compression of articles using LZMA2 as implemented by the xz-utils library, features a full-text search index and native category and image handling similar to MediaWiki. Unlike the native Wikipedia XML database dumps, the entire file is easily indexable and readable using a program like Kiwix. In addition to the open file format, the openZIM project provides support for an open source ZIM reader.

The ZIM file format replaces the earlier Zeno file format. ZIM stands for "Zeno IMproved". The openZIM project is sponsored by Wikimedia CH and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.