Enhance African Storybooks content

[benoit74]

As mentioned in https://github.com/openzim/kolibri/issues/13, we now have a Kolibri channel to get access to African Storybooks: https://kolibri-demo.learningequality.org/en/learn/#/topics/f9d3e0e46ea25789bbed672ff6a399ed (channel id = f9d3e0e46ea25789bbed672ff6a399ed). Thank you all for that.

ZIM is now ready at https://library.kiwix.org/viewer#africanstorybook.org_mul_all_2023-10

I have however two topics to enhance the ZIM:

• what is the update process of the Kolibri channel? Is there any? It looks like books are added on a regular basis to African Storybooks collection and I tried to find them in the Kolibri channel but failed (but I might be wrong).
• is it possible to generate thumbnails automatically for all books? I've found that Kolibri Studio could generate thumbnails automatically but failed to make it work on my tests, maybe I missed something or another effort is needed.

I would be more than happy to provide an effort on both subjects but need help to know how to get started and avoid duplicating efforts. @ivanistheone, could you help on this? @eshellman, did you finally got involved in the original setup?

I'm not sure this repo is the perfect place for this issue, but I did not find a better one ^^

[benoit74]

I just found the recipe : https://github.com/learningequality/sushi-chef-african-storybook

And looking at the documentation, it looks like there is even a --thumbnails parameter.

Two questions:

• is it possible that the --thumbnails parameter has not been passed when building the channel mentioned above?
• should someone at learning equality simply run again the recipe?

@rgaudin @Popolechien do not hesitate to guide me about how to make this move forward

[rgaudin]

I reiterate my advise that @Popolechien contact them to get a status on this collection.