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Mediawiki DumpHTML extension improvement (view source)
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The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML Mediawiki DumpHTML extension] is the best solution to export the dynamic generated HTML pages in a set of static HTML/Media files. This extension is better and has more potential to get a good set of HTML pages from a Mediawiki (in comparison with a Web site mirroring tool for example or an extern rendering solution). This is true especially if you deal with an big amount of content. | The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML Mediawiki DumpHTML extension] is the best solution to export the dynamic generated HTML pages in a set of static HTML/Media files. This extension is better and has more potential to get a good set of HTML pages from a Mediawiki (in comparison with a Web site mirroring tool for example or an extern rendering solution). This is true especially if you deal with an big amount of content and actually this is the solution retained to the big ZIM [[Template:ZIMdumps|you may already yet download on Kiwix Web site]]. | ||
Unfortunately, they are few pain points | Unfortunately, they are few pain points: | ||
* Not maintained, bugs are not fixed, new features are not implemented | * Not maintained, bugs are not fixed, new features are not implemented | ||
* Only available for Mediawiki system admin | * Only available for Mediawiki system admin | ||
* Does not generate ZIM files | * Does not generate ZIM files | ||
Consequently, almost nobody use it right now to generate ZIM files, this is too complicated. This, although a lot of people want to do that and contact the Kiwix dev. Team to help them to make a ZIM of their own content. But not only external projects would benefit from such a development, we would also gain a lot in efficiency and this would be the first mandatory step to prepare automatically ZIM files. | |||
==== Workpackage1: Revamping and fixing bugs ==== | ==== Workpackage1: Revamping and fixing bugs ==== | ||