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The Kiwix '''volunteer program''' offers motivated and talented people ways to work for Kiwix for a limited time.  Contributors can speak English, French, or German.  Technical volunteers should know JavaScript, CSS, or other web languages, or C++.

[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.

We need a solution toa utomatically test Kiwix. We currently have nothing... so we will start from scratch!

Create a publication platform like a Web site online similar to iTunes which would provide the list of available content to download in ZIM, EPUB, .... also show previews of content before downloading.

Create an '''ambassador program'''. '''Ambassadors''' would be special people especially aware about Kiwix and able to help others:

* Spread content

* Organize conferences

* Run advertisement

* Act as a local representative

* Ambassador program definition

* special features: fullscreen, switch language, change font size, go to a random page, etc.