openzim / openzim/overview

Migrate from mkdocs to something else

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Description

We are using mkdocs to generate documentation of multiple projects (python-scraperlib, python-libzim, ...).

The community is moving away from MkDocs due multiple drama.

I feel like we should probably follow the community and move to ProperDocs or Zensical.

See e.g. the very opinionated input from Material for MkDocs team: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2026/02/18/mkdocs-2.0/

We should probably try to migrate a first project to what feels like the best future for our needs (and the plugins we are currently using).

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the documentation setup for python-scraperlib and python-libzim, including the plugins currently in use. Compare ProperDocs and Zensical against the projects' documentation needs, then migrate one selected project and verify that its documentation builds successfully.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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