#kiwix — Public Fediverse posts
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In an unusually serendipitous moment (or luck, maybe), I've found that my blog format is 99.5% compatible with the format I need to make a #Kiwix ZIM fille! Sometimes I surprise myself ...
Anyway, I've currently converted 1 blog post and have set up a download location on the web server. Please visit https://petergarner.net/ZIM/ and check out "Reservoir Dog". Please leave feedback here!
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Spent a fascinating day yesterday creating a test #Kiwix ZIM to house what I hope will become a local community blog - The Skircoat Journal (West Yorkshire, UK). I help out at a local community library so i'm planning to do a writeup called "The Future is ... Offline"; maybe get some volunteers to contribute content. Later there are plans to start converting my blog posts to ZIM as well. Images in my blog are stored within the text as base64 strings for portability and I was delighted to see that Kiwix supports this. 🎉
Most of my time was spent finessing the CSS - my least favourite job - then it was many iterations with zimwriterfs and loading into tbe Kiwix app on Android phone and iPad mini for consistency checks. The Read Aloud on Android is amazing!
The only thing I'm not sure about is where to externally host these ZIMs - some would be local interest but more widely interesting and the blog ZIMs would be universally popular (I think). Any suggestions welcome!