On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart kelson@kiwix.org wrote:
That's why I have been working since March on a solution called mwoffliner (also using nodejs, like Parsoid): https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/other/ci/master/tree/mwoffliner/mwoffliner.j...
Mwoffliner: 1 - Download a selection of articles from the Parsoid API 2 - Rewrite the HTML code 3 - Write the ZIM file (not yet implemented, files are written on the filesystem)
Very cool! It may very well be possible to integrate this with the rendering pipeline in the first iteration, at least as a stretch goal. CCing Matt & Scott though I suspect they're already aware.
NB - we did run some numbers, and we're currently getting at most ~100 ZIM downloads/day from collections, across all wikis combined.
i was surprised now about myself. i know openzim since long time, i once even tried the collections extension in the beginning and found the user interface cruel. i installed kiwix on a pc - where i did not need it. i tried to install kiwix on android, but the android version was to old to run. then i hijacked a phone to try it there, and the zim file i wanted to use was so big that the fat32 filesystem could not store it. i wanted to take contens abroad because the mobile phone fees are just too expensive and its a hassle to always chase for a wifi hostspot but i did not go back to the collections extension. so - no downloads from me, even if i would need it. but - i was not able to connect the dots until your mail, erik. thank you so much for it!
so i know now that i want pdf to print, and openzim to take away. i am wondering how i get, with this extension, the articles about london from wikipedia and wikivoyage into one book / zim file?
rupert.