Hi Eric,

I would like to share that the ZIM support in the create a book feature may 
became more and more important in the future.

Actually in our new born education program, we are promoting a lot the usage of 
Kiwix and the creation of collection from Wikipedia by this feature, an I think 
it will be more and more used.

Sincerely

Charles

 
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> Le 13 nov. 2013 à 06:51, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
> 
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