This was the last milestone on the way to generate a monthly fresh ZIM snaspshot for each of our projects. Actually, many ZIM flavours for Wikipedias and a few other projects.
This now happens 100% automatically with the help of the Zimfarm. The work continues on MWoffliner, which is quite a delicate beast, to better handle the many particularities/features Mediawiki is known for. Our small typescript team welcomes any volunteer help. We have work to do for junior and senior developers, just pick up your ticket at https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues. Emmanuel On 03.07.20 15:43, Stephane Coillet-Matillon wrote: > quick announcement for a major success on our side: we finally released > late last night an updated version of the English Wikipedia[1]. The last > full version (ie. with images) we had was from October 2018 (!), and > since then we had been plagued by regressions, bugs, resource > limitations and probably some very dark magic. > > The new .zim file adds 900,000 articles (6.1 vs. 5.2 millions) and a > healthy 11 Gb in size (89 vs. 78 Gb). The numbers are somewhat > misleading because we need to include internal links and redirects, > which brings the total to 100+ million interlinked items. Emmanuel will > have more details on the hurdles that he had to deal with. > > Updates will now run on a monthly basis, which is another major > improvement: we had initially planned on bimonthly updates as a single > run used to take up to three weeks. It can now be done in 5-6 days \o/ > > Congrats to everyone involved or who supported us one way or another, > including the Foundation with the new & bigger servers they recently > gave us access to. Hopefully now we can move on to newer problems. -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: https://kiwix.org/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/
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