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Used by	Field name	Description	Example	Format	Notes
	guid	Unique version (different for different versions)	550d12b5-4b9c-4841-b92c-b229488c47b8	uuid-4
	id	An human readable identifier for the resource. It's the same across versions (should be stable across time). MUST be prefixed by the packager name	kiwix.wikipedia_en.nopics	source.resource_name.variants
	version	The version of the content. It MUST be the date of release	2016-06-18 or 2016-06-18-4	YYYY-MM-DD(-V), V being an optional number that you can add to differentiate between versions published at the same date.	This is the date of the release of the packaged content.
	title	The title of the resource	Wikipedia in English (With pictures)	String
	description	The description of the resource.	The famous encyclopedia, just for you...	String
	languages	The list of languages the content is written in	eng;fra	ISO 639-3 separated with semicolons without spaces.
	checksum	the checksum of the content		sha256 of the content (32 bytes)
	url	An HTTP URL to the file	http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikisource/wikisource_as_all_2016-03.zim	An URL as defined in the protocol (to add)	Also see the "alternate_urls" field for alternate urls.
	size	The size of the content (in bytes)	42	unsigned integer
	mimetype	The mimetype of the file	application/zip	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_type
	intended_use	Describes the type of content this is; so clients can know what to do with it (open kiwix, unzip it somewhere, etc)	zim or static-html or kalite	String	In order to know what this does, you can go to https://wiki.kiwix.org/catalog/{name}
IIAB, Kiwix	thumbnail_urls	A dictionary containing images in different sizes	{small : https://website.com/thumbnail.png, medium : url, big : url}	Exact size of the images needs to be defined
Maybe IIAB	requires	A list of mimetypes that if not supported will prevent this content from being played	application/x-shockwave-flash	The list contains mimetypes.
BSF, IIAB	tags	A list of tags	School;Videos;Playing;Boats;Fun	Strings, separated by semicolon
RACHEL	extra_fields	An object, containing key/values which are free form
IIAB, BSF	content_group	A group the content belongs to.	Wikipedia or Wiktionary	A string
IIAB	variants	You can only have one variant at a time.	{has_pictures : true}	Dictionary of variant names and values	You want to install one of these in the list, but never both at the same time.
RACHEL, Kiwix	alternate_urls	List of alternative URLs to use in order to get the content	magnet://?xt=urn:btih:1bb38177da51e4452789cfd7ca7851c6212d56c4&xt=urn:md5:
Everyone	authors	A list of authors	John Doe, MLK
Everyone	publisher	Who is responsible of the content itself	Wikimedia folks <contact@wikimedia.org>
Everyone	packager	The person(s) responsible for the technical packaging	Super Emmanuel <kelson@kiwix.org>
Everyone	licences	A list of existing licences	MIT	String