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There is for now only a few tools allowing people to create ZIM files.


== MediaWiki Collection Extension ==
== Users ==
The Collection extension for MediaWiki provides the ability to select articles and export them in different formats, such as PDF, ODF and ZIM. The main purpose of Collection extension is to create printed books - instead of export you can also choose to have the selected articles printed on demand as a real book.
You can create on Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, ZIM files of article selections. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book For example on http://en,wikipedia.org]. This is based on the MediaWiki Collection Extension (see below).


The Collection extension can be easily added to any MediaWiki installation.
== Developers ==


* Get the extension here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
=== MediaWiki Collection Extension ===
* Details on Collection and openZIM: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection/openZIM
The Collection extension for MediaWiki provides the ability to select articles and export them in different formats, such as PDF, ODF and ZIM. The main purpose of Collection extension is to create printed books - instead of export you can also choose to have the selected articles printed on demand as a real book.
 
== ZIM Writer ==
<tt>zimwriter</tt> is part of the openZIM software package that can be downloaded here: [[Releases]].
 
This binary uses a pre-filled Postgres Database with a [http://svn.openzim.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/zimwriter/db/zim-postgresql.sql?view=markup predefined scheme]. For example :
 
<source lang="bash">
zimwriter -s 1024
  --db "postgresql:dbname=mydb" my_zim_file
</source>


We want to provide in the future a binary able to work with other input (for example: Wikimedia Foundation XML dumps, or HTML directory).
The Collection extension can be easily added to any MediaWiki installation:
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection Get the extension]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection/openZIM Details on Collection and openZIM]


One tool is currently able to create/fill this database:
== zimwriterdb ==
[[zimwriterdb]] is part of the openZIM project. This binary uses a pre-filled Postgres Database and create the corresponding ZIM file.


=== buildZimFileFromDirectory.pl ===
=== buildZimFileFromDirectory.pl ===
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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Publish your ZIM File]]
* [[Bindings]]
* [[Reader]]
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