UNABLE TO DOWNLOAD CONTENT TO KIWIX INSTALL
Mediawiki Collection extension developed by Pediapress (which is deployed on Wikipedia) is user friendly but suffer of many issues: (1) Really complicated to install on a separate instance (2) slow and not able at all to deal with huge amount of data (4) Rendering quality far away of online version (5) technical approach makes they are not able at all to tune the content rendering for offline usage.This solution is currently not usable at all project external people. This is currently the only one project generating (and more or less able to generate) big ZIM files from WMF projects. Kiwix, which use a solution based on a hacked version of Mediawiki DumpHTML extension, with additional custom scripts.
UNABLE TO DOWNLOAD CONTENT TO KIWIX SOFTWARE
We suffer from a lack of tools to build ZIM files and actually only a few people have the mandatory know-how and software solutions to do it: Unfortunately, the development of the format is brake by a lack of softwares. This format is complementary to the EPUB which is more though for small content and unable to scale. The ZIM format was designed to deal efficiently with hugh amount of data, that means that you may deal with millions of pictures and text extremly quickly also on a small device like a smartphone. Kiwix is the reference reader supporting it, but ZIM is an open format, and they are also other readers. The ZIM format was choosen by the top actors around Mediawiki to provide a offline usable versions of the content. 3.4 4 - Integrating Collection and DumpHTML extensions and new features.
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