Feature request : New ZIM (all maxi super)

[Ubuntu-2020]

Currently, Wikipedia in ZIM format can be loaded in the following configurations:

• all maxi
• all mini
• all nopic

But as technology evolves and over time we can download larger and larger files. Even now, you can download the English Wikipedia (about 80 GB) on your smartphone. But before it was impossible to dream about it. So I would like to suggest for Wikipedia to collect ZIM file all maxi super.

• all maxi super
• all maxi
• all mini
• all nopic

all maxi super will be different from all maxi in that the images will be available. Now we can click on the image and select Save Image. And the picture will be saved. But it is small, about 240 px. And in the all maxi super file, images will open as in Wikipedia - as a separate page. For example, now when you click on an image in a Wikipedia article, a page with an image with a width of 800 px opens. But you can set and 600 px or even smaller.

[kelson42]

We have two problems:

• We can not build ZIM files of Mediawiki with the full resolution (even only a better as the default thumbnail)
• We don't really have the hardware resources to build ZIM files of Wikipedia with full resolution images. They could easily be 100x bigger.

[Popolechien]

We can not build ZIM files of Mediawiki with the full resolution (even only a better as the default thumbnail)

@kelson42 is it a current limitation (it could be done but this would involve rewriting parts of MWoffliner or is it a structural limitation (meaning that the way the zim works there is no way we could open images separately) ?

In both case I suggest wontfix but curious all the same where the blocker is.

[Ubuntu-2020]

@kelson42

We can not build ZIM files of Mediawiki with the full resolution (even only a better as the default thumbnail)

I did not suggest creating ZIM files with full-size images! I suggested that the images should be clickable. That is, to make it like in Wikipedia, when you click on the image, a separate page with the image opens (the width of the image is 600 or 800 pixels) + a description of the image (date, author, license, and so on).

Or another option. Images in Wikipedia articles from ZIM files will look exactly the same as now. That is, in most cases, their width is 220-250 px. But if the user right-clicks on the image and wants to save or open it, then the image with a width of 600 or 800 pixels will be saved or opened.

[Ubuntu-2020]

In addition, Wikipedia has a lot of images whose width is less than 500 px. For example, images with copyright: File:AutoCAD 2018 icon.png File:AutoCAD 2016 screenshot.png

[knowledge-is-power]

I second this issue totally. we need watchable bigger pictures! just thumbnails don't help, complex pictures are completely useless as thumbnails. 'all maxi super' is a nice way to go about it - a new type of zim that contains even more complete info/features than the current maxi version.

[RavanJAltaie]

@kelson42 @Popolechien any update for this issue?

[Popolechien]

As it stands I would say this is not on dev plan and I would archive the request.

[benoit74]

Transferring to mwoffiner for future consideration

[Jaifroid]

I don't get whether this proposal is to store higher-res versions of images in the ZIM along with the current low-res versions, or whether it is merely to open an upscaled version of the same low-res image when the user clicks the image. The first would be very wasteful of space (store two copies of each image), while the second is more about the display options in the reader, istm.