Excellent. Thanks Emmanuel. I opened up the new feature request.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29817

--tomasz



On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart
<[email protected]> wrote:
> There is still no feature request about that, although these topics wehre
> already discussed here:
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28953
>
> Emmanuel
>
>
> On 07/08/2011 11:47 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote:
>>
>> We'll certainly want to get this cleaned up in the Collections
>> extension. I'll add this to bugzilla in case its not already there.
>>
>> --tomasz
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM,<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I updated the documentation and make the pre-listed meta information as
>>> mandatory:
>>> http://openzim.org/index.php?title=Metadata&diff=prev&oldid=1296
>>>
>>> I tested in that way the Mediawiki:Collection extension, the problems
>>> are:
>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28953
>>> * No description
>>> * Favicon is always the same
>>>
>>> kiwix Perl script is already updated and each new ZIM will provide this
>>> meta
>>> informations.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Emmanuel
>>>
>>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:21:27 +0200, Manuel Schneider wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Emmanuel,
>>>>
>>>> So far as I remember when we have defined the metadata we also defined
>>>> that these attributes we have defined are also mandatory, while
>>>> additional metadata (ideally also defined by dublin core) may be used.
>>>>
>>>> Manuel Schneider
>>>>
>>>> Sent via mobile phone (+49 170 7740589).
>>>>
>>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>>> Von: [email protected]
>>>> An:
>>>> Betreff: [openZIM dev-l] Make Metadatas mandatory?
>>>> Datum: Do., Jun. 16, 2011 12:38
>>>>
>>>>  Hi
>>>>
>>>>  With the multiplication of ZIM files and ZIM editors we need ways to
>>>>  build overviews.
>>>>  Without the metadatas they are not easy way to build these overviews
>>>>  (You have to do it by hand every time).
>>>>  This is waht I learned by coding the content manager of Kiwix which
>>>>  works now.
>>>>
>>>>  So I think, having ZIM files with metadatas is essential, maybe even
>>>>  more.
>>>>  I think we have to push the usage of these metadatas (title,
>>>>  description, creation date, creator, favicon, language) and I see 3
>>>>  approaches:
>>>>
>>>>  (1) Make these informations mandatory
>>>>  (2) Make a recommendation but nothing blocking
>>>>  (3) Do nothing and be optimistic
>>>>
>>>>  What would be your preferred approach?
>>>>
>>>>  Regards
>>>>  Emmanuel
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