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Forks: 2
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Indexed issues: 41

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Last GitHub push: Aug 20, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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41 open issues indexed

Publish ZIM contribution guidelines Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

openzim/overview#100 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Forbid illustration with transparent background Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/overview#97 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
quirks on path entries in zim Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openzim/overview#96 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Need a standardized approach for converting between ZIM-paths and URLs Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/overview#92 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
ZIM paths dealing with path hierarchy are not accessible in most our readers Open

bug

openzim/overview#90 · 35 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Migrate from mkdocs to something else Open

enhancement maint

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

openzim/overview#89 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Clarify distinction between ZIM publisher and ZIM producer Open

enhancement

openzim/overview#84 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 9, 2026
specification on how to create ZIM files Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/overview#83 · 4 comments · Opened May 14, 2026
Ensure Kiwix private tags are set correctly on all scrapers Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/overview#82 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 14, 2026
Document difference between ZIM alias and redirect Open

enhancement

openzim/overview#79 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 30, 2026
Scrapers: test assumptions over the whole corpus once in a while Open

enhancement question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/overview#78 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2026
What is Kiwix/openZIM standard message broker? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/overview#77 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Creating ZIM Illustrations (icons) Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/overview#76 · Opened Nov 28, 2025
What kind of new ZIM illustrations metadata Open

enhancement question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openzim/overview#75 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 4, 2025
ZIM functionality: how to enhance title (suggestion) search results Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/overview#73 · Opened Nov 2, 2025
Enhance and standardize solution for healtcheck monitoring Open

enhancement

openzim/overview#72 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 3 assignees · Opened Oct 28, 2025
Manage software maintenance Open

enhancement question

openzim/overview#61 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 3 assignees · Opened Sep 15, 2025
Support language variants Open

enhancement question

openzim/overview#60 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 13, 2025
What's the publishing process for custom apps? Open

question

openzim/overview#59 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 8, 2025
Define and implement a policy/process to publish third-party ZIMs in our library Open

enhancement

openzim/overview#58 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2025
Use pre-commit.ci? Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/overview#57 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 20, 2025
Security concept for our Web platforms Open

enhancement question

openzim/overview#55 · 4 assignees · Opened Aug 10, 2025
Add full support for search in multi-language ZIMs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openzim/overview#54 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 24, 2025
Define a strategy for storage of "user data" in readers Open

enhancement

openzim/overview#49 · 3 assignees · Opened Mar 11, 2025
Please expand article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIM_(file_format) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/overview#48 · Opened Jan 29, 2025
Ensure all scrapers clearly indicate that Docker is the recommend installation method Open

enhancement

openzim/overview#47 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 13, 2025
Host documentation on our infra at docs.kiwix.org and docs.openzim.org Open

question

openzim/overview#46 · 4 comments · 4 assignees · Opened Dec 13, 2024
Consider supporting readthedocs Open

enhancement question

openzim/overview#45 · 8 comments · 4 assignees · Opened Dec 12, 2024
Develop a scraper automating testing strategy/guidelines Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openzim/overview#44 · Opened Nov 1, 2024
We should have a podcast2zim scraper Open

enhancement GSoC Project idea question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/overview#42 · 19 comments · Opened Oct 14, 2024
Fix scraper versions and `Scraper` metadata in our scrapers Open

enhancement

openzim/overview#41 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2024
Add new standard metadata (optional) to differentiate content harvesting period from ZIM creation date Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/overview#40 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 22, 2024
Better advertise the languages present in a ZIM Open

enhancement question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/overview#38 · Opened Jun 28, 2024
Do we want to open "Discussions" feature on our repositories Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openzim/overview#31 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2024
Frontend: Should we replace bootstrap (by Vuetify or Tailwind CSS) in the convention Open

question

openzim/overview#30 · 8 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Feb 29, 2024
Define a CHANGELOG convention Open

question

openzim/overview#25 · 4 assignees · Opened Dec 22, 2023
Define a convention on TCP/UDP ports used by development stacks Open

question

openzim/overview#24 · 26 comments · 4 assignees · Opened Nov 27, 2023
Decide where content team documentation should be placed Open

openzim/overview#23 · 9 comments · 3 assignees · Opened Nov 1, 2023
Upgrade python-scraperlib to 3.x, including CLI support for description / long_description flags Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/overview#21 · Opened Aug 14, 2023
Consider saving content publication date in the ZIM Open

enhancement stale

openzim/overview#9 · 9 comments · 4 assignees · Opened Feb 19, 2022
New scraper: Confluence / Atlassian Open

stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openzim/overview#5 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 24, 2020

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