Thanks, Jessie and Tomasz.
I'd propose: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Library/OpenZIM_Content_Libr...
Ok, that sounds good for more significant projects collections. I am still unsure about smaller ones.
For instance, say I make a curated collection of a hundred spanish + simple english wikipedia articles, wikitravel pages, and wiktionary entries.
Or say I make a wikipedia book, export it as a zim file, edit that file, and want to publish and rename the revised collection.
http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/WMF_UX_Improvement_Effort%C2%A0 (see the mysterious #XX in the 2nd phase :)), but this would be a library navigable via Kiwix.
A library / modulestore of thousands of available modules (zim files) would be nice.
Also, is there any current effort to make an online interface to create an offline snapshot, and export it in various formats?
Sorry just so I understand: do you mean as is offered via the PediaPress book creator on Wikipedia? Where you can select articles or a book collection and download it as openZIM, PDF, ODT?
Yes, that is an important step in this direction. I was thinking of larger snapshots and the range of standard wikireader formats -- the sorts of projects that teams of people currently spend a lot of time creating, partly by hand. For instance:
"snapshot type" (wiktionary, abridged wikipedia, wikipedia by category, wikisource, other/custom ...) ~~ "language[s]" "articles" (trusted only, by popularity, by wp1.0 score, all) "article stubs" (yes, no, only popular ones) "article length" (1st para, lede, summary, full) "image size" (none, thumbnails, full) "target size" (<50M, 200M, 1G, 4G, 16G, 64G, any size) "image % of total" (none, 20%, 50%, 80%) "templates" (yes, no, never) ~~ "export format" (zim, wikireader, woip, mw-xml, pdf, odt)
Some of these choices may limit the selection available for the others. An option to browse existing snapshots could replace the first two sets of choices.
'WP by category' could include some of the larger sorts of snapshots that can currently be generated as books - especially if one can update those automatically with page-scoring and wikitrust data. New custom snapshots could start from existing snapshots, combining them or extending them to a different set of languages.
SJ