On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Having a tool building a ZIM using the Mediawiki API is essential for
> people not having access to the system running Mediawiki.
>
> For people with access to the system. using the API to get the content is
> not the best solution because it impeaches or makes difficult any
> post-treatments.
> In addition, this is not the best approach to transmit all over HTTP if you
> have access to the content directly.
>
> So, I think:
> * A zimwritermw (zimwriter using the MW API) console tool should be
> developed (Tommi already started).
> * Pediapress ZIM solution should be based on it ; otherwise I do not see
> how we will avoid duplicated work.
> * zimwriterdisk (zimwriter using static HTML&Media files) should be
> continued (Tommi already has a stub I think)
> * MW DumpHTML extension should be revisited to work correctly, with
> zimwriterdisk and potential additional post-treatment tools, this could be
> really powerful.
>
> All this 4 tools separately are pretty simple to code and with all of them
> we might do everything we need.
>
> So, I feel me concerned that neither DumpHTML nor zimwriterdisk are part of
> the discussions.


+1

-- 
Asaf Bartov <[email protected]>
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