Content team

The Content team gathers people in charge of providing books in the ZIM format. It has emerged - as effort - in the early 2020s as part of a strong content strategy.

Purpose

Provide the best possible (appealing, up2date, small, 'market ready', ...) library of ZIM based books.

Goals

• Books topics should stick to needs
• Books should have proper visual formatting
• Books should be up-to-date
• Library should allow to discover quickly and nicely (new) books

Duties

• Requests
  • Collaborate with requesters to qualify requests properly. Keep them informed.
  • Ensure we are allowed and able to fullfill requests
  • Initiate new recipes and manage first publishing if new book
  • Collaborate with scraper dev. team if necessary
  • Keep the tickets up2date

• Zimfarm
  • Ensure Zimfarm works fine and contribute to its improvements with dev. team
  • Analyses failures or unexpected behaviors
  • Ensure recipes run properly, fix configuration when necessary and contribute to scraper improvements with dev. team
  • Ensure workers are online and are properly configured
  • Ensure scrapes lifecycle is correct (Reasonable pipeline size, Running scrapes progressing appropriately, not too many failures)

• CMS
  • Ensure ZIM filenames and location (paths) are correct
  • Ensure ZIM Metadata are correct
  • Ensure ZIM are recent and kept up2date (AFAP)
  • Ensure library is coherent and user-friendly

Members

• Popolechien, manager in line
• Ravan, content manager
• Benoit74, scrapers lead dev

See also

• Content strategy