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Mediawiki DumpHTML extension improvement (view source)
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The [http://www.openzim.org ZIM] format was choosen by the top actors around Mediawiki to provide a offline usable versions of the content. [http://www.kiwix.org Kiwix] is the reference reader supporting it, but ZIM is an open format, and they are also [http://www.openzim.org/ZIM_Readers other readers]. | The [http://www.openzim.org ZIM] format was choosen by the top actors around Mediawiki to provide a offline usable versions of the content. [http://www.kiwix.org Kiwix] is the reference reader supporting it, but ZIM is an open format, and they are also [http://www.openzim.org/ZIM_Readers other readers]. | ||
The ZIM format was designed to deal efficiently with hugh amount of data, that means that you may deal with millions of pictures and text extremly quickly also on a small device like a smartphone. This format is complementary to the | The ZIM format was designed to deal efficiently with hugh amount of data, that means that you may deal with millions of pictures and text extremly quickly also on a small device like a smartphone. This format is complementary to the [[Wikipedia:EPUB|EPUB]] which is more though for small content and unable to scale. | ||
Unfortunately, the development of the format is brake by a lack of softwares. We suffer from a lack of tools to build ZIM files and actually only a few people have the mandatory know-how and software solutions to do it: | Unfortunately, the development of the format is brake by a lack of softwares. We suffer from a lack of tools to build ZIM files and actually only a few people have the mandatory know-how and software solutions to do it: | ||