Hi offline community,
how important is ZIM support in Collections (the "Create a book"
feature) on Wikimedia sites? We implemented this a while ago to
support offline efforts. Since collections are still typically very
much limited in size, it's not a very viable option for huge offline
exports, more for batches of articles on related topics. Do people
currently rely on this functionality for offline deployments?
We're re-implementing the rendering pipeline for Collections to ensure
long-term maintainability, and our default would be to eliminate
initially all formats except for PDF if we don't absolutely have to
support them. I'll see if we can get some metrics on current ZIM file
usage via the Collection extension, but it'd be nice to get
qualitative feedback as well.
(More background at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PDF_rendering )
Thanks,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation