Re: [Kiwix-developer] Kiwix-developer Digest, Vol 44, Issue 5

[Tim M. <ti...@ti...>]

This is all really great work. I have personally used the new parsoid
option and it worked really well.

Look forward to more name spaces, especially categories.

Thanks,

Tim

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>    1. [INFO] Few good news about mwoffliner (Emmanuel Engelhart)
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> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:26:23 +0200
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> Subject: [Kiwix-developer] [INFO] Few good news about mwoffliner
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> Hi
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> We rarely write here specifically about mwoffliner, even if this tool is
> time to time named by-the-way in threads. But these last months we have
> done many interesting improvements to this important tool and I thought
> it might be valuable to report quickly about them.
>
> As a reminder, mwoffliner is a script which is thought to build a ZIM
> file from any (recent) online Mediawiki. It scraps a snapshot of the
> online wiki (HTML/JS/pictures/...) on your local disk.
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> Here is the list of recent improvements:
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> * We have introduce Parsoid as a local dependence, which means that even
> if a Mediawiki does not have Parsoid/Visual Editor installed, mwoffliner
> should have a chance now to build the ZIM file of it by running Parsoid
> locally.
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> * We have introduced the Parsoid mobile layout suppport which allows to
> build ZIM file with a similar layout as Wikipedia Mobile version. This
> is pretty much in beta and we plan first to use it only for Wikipedia.org.
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> * We have introduced the support of audio/video which means that now,
> like the pictures, they are mirrored too. Our first tests show that for
> Wikipedia it tends to multiply the size of the ZIM file by a factor
> four. As a consequence we won't use it directly everywhere. That said
> the feature is there and we will step-by-step introduce video in the ZIM
> files we are generating with mwoffliner.
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> * We have published mwoffliner (and mwmatrixoffliner) to the npmjs
> repository: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner. Now everybody can
> install it easily (but you still need to take care about the dependences).
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> * We have made the script a bit more modular: you can call it like any
> other program but now you can also use it as a library in your own
> Javascript/Node.js scripts.
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> * We have moved the git repository to the openZIM organization on
> Github: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner. By moving all our scraper
> to the openZIM organization we hope to bring a bit of clarity between
> Kiwix and openZIM respective duties. Have a look to all other scrapers
> we have migrated to openZIM: https://github.com/openzim
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> mwoffliner is not a tool for everybody but it is really important to
> continue to improve it to provide quality ZIM files of Wikipedia,
> Wiktionary, ... So if you have Javascript skills please come to help us
> to prepare the next big steps forward
> https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues
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> Regards
> Emmanuel
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