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I just don't get why you guys removed the feature of downloading an article/book as a ZIM. It's so disappointing, bring it back for god's sake. PDF files are so large in size, takes Megabytes of size for one little article!! You say wikipedia is available offline as ZIM, then why remove it? Bring it back I beg you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sree has it (talk • contribs) 03:38, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
yes for me too.it will be very nice if zim feature is available so that we can use it on kiwix.but why you people removed that??? please add this feature
The Help:Books page says that the option is enabled but is not true and I think it is necessary for all those who do not have internet access 24 hours.
If you want to see this feature back, please subscribe and give a token to this feature request. Kelson (talk) 11:28, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
@Kku: I agree, completely. This is, IMO anyway, the exact antithesis of what Wikipedia—nay, the Wikimedia Foundation—is supposed to stand for: transparency, being composed of the users by the users for the users. >:( We shouldn't have to file a feature request just to get answers...
After having just emailed Wikipedia suggesting they add a download as epub option (and admittedly, I couldn't fathom why this was not already an option), I now see that this option already existed and has been removed. Is there any official explanation for this bizarre move, anywhere? Strictly speaking, PDF is not technically an "ebook" format at all. It is a fixed-pagination, portable document format. Ebooks require fluid pagination. InspiredLight
As of 16/07/2015 still no zim/epub download facility. No transparency at all, very sad and depressing. I guess there are political reasons, possibly to ensure that everyone only accesses wikipedia online. I wonder why... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.233.93.4 (talk) 18:11, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
It's nearly a year since books started ignoring tables and stuff, we have only two sizes in one lone format that still works at all and nobody with any responsibility in the development process can do anything except bleat about their own impotence. I feel like replacing every darn Help:Books/ page with
WARNING: The Book Creator software is broken, the management process is broken, and nothing is going to happen. Frankly, we don't care enough to get the process working again. We recommend that you copy/paste individual article content into your favorite wordprocessor. |
OK I'm a professional author in my day job and I feel real pain when my tools don't work, but even so... Tell you what, pay me a living wage* and I'll go back to coding, learn a new language and fix it up for you.
* Sorry, it'd be a long job and I have to eat.
— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 17:18, 30 August 2015 (UTC)