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[ | [https://www.mediawiki.org/ Mediawiki] is the wiki engine behind [https://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], all [https://www.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia projects] and thousands other Web sites. It's a cutting edge free software providing highly featured web sites that anybody can edit. Mediawiki hosted content can be made available for offline usage through the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection Collection extension] (written in PHP). The Collection extension allows to easily create collection/selection of articles: so called books ; here is [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book how it works on the English Wikipedia]. Once created, books can be exported in PDF format. The PDF exporting backend itself is not provided by the Collection extension, it's done with a JavaScript based solution called [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Offline_content_generator OCG]. OCG is a NodeJS daemon able to transform a book definition in a PDF and it should be able to do the same in the ZIM format. The [http://www.openzim.org ZIM format] allows to store web pages (with images, videos, etc...) in one extremely compressed file. These pages are then available to read on most computers with a reader like [http://www.kiwix.org Kiwix]. A [https://github.com/cscott/mw-ocg-zimwriter stub of solution] has already been written and the [https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/other/ci/master/tree/mwoffliner/ MWOffline] is already functional. This [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73660 task] is mostly about merging them. | ||
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<translate>=== Testing platform === <!--T:4--> | <translate>=== Testing platform === <!--T:4--> | ||
We need a solution to test automatically Kiwix. We have currently nothing... so we start from scratch | We need a solution to test automatically Kiwix. We have currently nothing... so we start from scratch! | ||
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Create a publication platform, a Web site online similar to | Create a publication platform, a Web site online similar to iTunes which would provide the list of available contents to download in ZIM, EPUB, .... also offer to see the book before downloading it. | ||
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* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Library/Wikipublish#Volunteers | * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Library/Wikipublish#Volunteers Want to know more...] | ||
* Add support of EPUB in Kiwix | * Add support of EPUB in Kiwix | ||
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Create an '''ambassador program'''. '''Ambassadors''' would be special people especially aware about Kiwix and able to help others: | Create an '''ambassador program'''. '''Ambassadors''' would be special people especially aware about Kiwix and able to help others: | ||
* Spread contents | * Spread contents | ||
* | * Make conferences | ||
* | * Make advertisement | ||
* Local representative | * Local representative | ||
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<translate>== Video == <!--T:12--> | <translate>== Video == <!--T:12--> | ||
It would be great to have a video (screencast) presenting the software with its most important | It would be great to have a video (screencast) presenting the software with its most important features. | ||
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