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=== MWoffliner ===
=== MWoffliner ===


MWoffliner is a tool which allows to "dump" a Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, ...) to a local storage. It should also work for any Mediawiki instance having parsoid installed. It goes through all articles (or a selection if specified) of the project and write HTML/pictures to your local filesystem.
MWoffliner is a tool which allows to "dump" a Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, ...) to a local storage. It should also work for any [https://mediawiki.org Mediawiki] instance. It goes through all articles (or a selection if specified) of the project and write HTML/pictures to your local filesystem as plain HTML/JS/CSS/... files or in a ZIM file.


A virtual machine with MWoffliner is provided [http://download.kiwix.org/dev/ZIMmaker.ova here]. You might have to update the source code to get the last improvements.
It is distributed via [https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner npm] and [https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/mwoffliner Docker].


More information are available [https://github.com/kiwix/mwoffliner here].
If you are a developer, you can download it directly from its [https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner git repository].


=== zimwriterfs ===
=== zimwriterfs ===
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===zimmer===
===zimmer===
The [https://github.com/vss-devel/zimmer zimmer] package allows creating a ZIM dump from a publicly accessible Mediawiki-based wiki. This package is relatively easy to install and supports both old and new versions of Mediawiki. It is a kind of an alternative to MWoffliner.
The [https://github.com/vss-devel/zimmer zimmer] package allows creating a ZIM dump from a Mediawiki-based wiki. This package is relatively easy to install and supports both old and new versions of Mediawiki. It is a kind of an alternative to MWoffliner.


The package consists of two Node.js scripts:
The package consists of two Node.js scripts:

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