The software and the content are free for anyone to use. Makes knowledge available to people with limited or no Internet access. Kiwix is an offline reader for multilingual content from Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, TED Talks, Wikivoyage, Stackexchange, etc. "and certainly don't deliver HTML pages in a quality like we do."īy your own admission, you don't "deliver HTML pages" at all, MediaWiki software delivers them, and kiwix just converts that HTML to ZIM.Kiwix JS for PWA, Windows and Linux (Electron, NWJS, UWP) "custom wiki parser which is a big work, difficult to maintain"Ĭonverting wiki code to HTML is easy, I've already written my own parser which converts each page to a HTML files, but I don't want to have to write my own compression system and viewer, which is why I was looking at kiwix and WikiTaxi. I ran WikiTaxi's conversion again, and it took only a few seconds. To continue with the previous analogy, the only way I can create a cake (zim file) for myself is to install an entire cake factory (mediawiki) at home (my computer). zim creating extension on my computer, and import XML dumps for each wiki I want to convert to. To do this I would have to install mediawiki and a. I cannot, as I am not an administrator of all wikis in the world. "you can install it on the source of the content" While forcing everyone to buy pre-made cakes would certainly improve the overall quality of cakes, everyone should have to option to create them on their own. I think that it's great that people have to option of either buying pre-made cakes, or owning an oven and buying a cake mix to make themselves. I think it is better to give people a choice. Then please do this for every wiki on the internet. "We think, it's better to do it one time and deliver the result to all the people than each people needs to do it on his own." I now understand that the way kiwix works is not reading the wiki database and generating pages, you're simply copying the cached HTML which MediaWiki has already generated. I could have sworn I had left a reply earlier. What can an export extension do that an import function couldn't? I do not understand the difference between using an extension to export ZIM files, and just importing XML dumps and converting to ZIM. Which seems like a really silly way to have to go about it when the XML contains all the information anyway. My next option is to install mediawiki locally, install the extension and use an XML dump to mirror a wiki so I can export it as ZIM. I haven't yet had the opportunity to compare it further to kiwix, but it's currently winning over kiwix as I've gotten further with it. The main problem with it is that it has not been updated recently, and is not open source. WikiTaxi imports mediawiki XML files, and the quality in that is fine. While it's not quite the same thing, TXT files are widely regarded as inadequate for a quality documents, but I don't know of any advanced text editors which do not allow importing plain text files. "XML dumps as inadequat for a quality offline wikipedia reader." That's certainly definitive, but doesn't tell me why. "Kiwix will never support Mediawiki XML exports." I understand what your approach is, but I've never seen any reason for it: that's why I posted this suggestion and explained why it was a good idea. I've listed multiple reasons in favour of supporting importing XML, but you have listed no reasons against it.
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