openzim / openzim/overview

Support language variants

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Since Sep 1, 2026.

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Description

MWoffliner allows now to specify language variants (and this is used to scrape Wikipedia in Simplified Chinese). See https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/pull/2450

Which mostly implies that we mostly agreed that we can/could/should have multiple ZIM files with the same content, but different language variants.

But beside of this I believe there is nothing set:

  • For the ZIM specification (metadata)
  • How the readers should deal with that

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