This was the last milestone on the way to generate a monthly fresh ZIM
snaspshot for each of our projects. Actually, many ZIM flavours for
Wikipedias and a few other projects.
This now happens 100% automatically with the help of the Zimfarm.
The work continues on MWoffliner, which is quite a delicate beast, to
better handle the many particularities/features Mediawiki is known for.
Our small typescript team welcomes any volunteer help. We have work to
do for junior and senior developers, just pick up your ticket at
https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues.
Emmanuel
On 03.07.20 15:43, Stephane Coillet-Matillon wrote:
quick announcement for a major success on our side: we
finally released
late last night an updated version of the English Wikipedia[1]. The last
full version (ie. with images) we had was from October 2018 (!), and
since then we had been plagued by regressions, bugs, resource
limitations and probably some very dark magic.
The new .zim file adds 900,000 articles (6.1 vs. 5.2 millions) and a
healthy 11 Gb in size (89 vs. 78 Gb). The numbers are somewhat
misleading because we need to include internal links and redirects,
which brings the total to 100+ million interlinked items. Emmanuel will
have more details on the hurdles that he had to deal with.
Updates will now run on a monthly basis, which is another major
improvement: we had initially planned on bimonthly updates as a single
run used to take up to three weeks. It can now be done in 5-6 days \o/
Congrats to everyone involved or who supported us one way or another,
including the Foundation with the new & bigger servers they recently
gave us access to. Hopefully now we can move on to newer problems.
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