ZIM Autobuild
The ZIM Autobuild is a software and infrastrucure project which has for purpose to build more and more efficiently ZIM files of the Wikimedia projects.
Introduction
Kiwix is well established by now, there are more and more users/downloads and we know that users are really satisfied. It's accepted as the reference software to read ZIM files and does more or less everything what people expect from such a software. In comparison, the offered content is still too small. I manually prepare full Wikipedia ZIM files with pictures in about 25 languages. This is the right moment, to fix that problem.
This project has for purpose to provide a solution with following properties:
Fully automatic
Web configurable/manageable able to build full or partial (only a selection of articles) ZIM files of WMF projects able to tweak the content by removing/modifying categories, templates, articles able to compute full ZIM files with pictures for at least the 50 largest Wikipedia (except English) able to compute full ZIM files without pictures for most of the WMF projects Able to provide Sugar .xo packages including content + Kiwix (developed in the B&W scope)Not done, but we are almost able to do that with APK (Android) packages Kelson (talk) 21:23, 24 September 2015 (CEST)
Workpages
Here are the three parts of the project:
People
This project is leaded and executed by Kelson.
Financing
This project is granted by Wikimedia CH (Switzerland)
Timeline
End of June: Server in Datacenter
- We had two offers and I decided to take the one of Weblink for 225CHF/month. This was not the cheapest one, but the datacenter is really near to my house, something essential for me: I wanted to be able to quickly and easily make hardware maintenance. Server is migrated and works. Kelson 14:45, 20 August 2012 (CEST)
- End of August: first automatic version running
- End of September: end of the project
Final status
Almost all the job has been done. Mwoffliner is now efficient enough and it runs on many VMs at @labs. With them we are almost able to build for all Wikimedia projects, one time a month, two ZIM/ZIP files: one with pictures and one without. This project is therefore considered as achieved. Kelson (talk) 21:28, 24 September 2015 (CEST)