Thanks, Jessie and Tomasz.
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 (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