Currently there is now way to add a custom description to a openZim generated file. In order for user of the Kiwix downloader to better understand what's in the content file we need to have the ability to provide an optional description.
Version: unspecified
Severity: trivial
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T31817 Add support for custom description | ||
| Open | None | T31849 Add metadata field in collections and saved books |
for description info please check out the metadata definition on openzim.org:
This data is stored in articles - like regular wiki articles - in the namespace M. So the string for "title" will be stored in an article called "/M/title".
Favicon:
"A favicon (48x48) is also mandatory and should be located at /-/favicon "
volker.haas wrote:
This enhancement depends on collection extension support for a metadata field ‘description' in collections and saved books.
It seems that the extension simply writes this information in the wrong place called "/M/Subtitle" instead of "/M/Description". Could you please fix that, this is trivial.
ralf_wikimedia wrote:
Well, that's the subtitle, which should be printed together with the title on the cover.
If it helps with the kiwix downloader and does provide enough information for a description, please open a pull request on github.
ralf_wikimedia wrote:
Well, thinking another minute about it, I think this is stupid...and the subtitle shouldn't be misused as a description.
I think both, "subtitle" and "description", are the same. I use them at least in the same way as ZIM publisher and Kiwix developer.
Other metadatas are there in the ZIM file to also "describe" the content.
I just have implemented in Kiwix, that if "/M/Description" is empty, it looks at "/M/Subtitle" in place.
In any case, "/M/Subtitle" is not defined in the ZIM format and we can not await that ZIM readers take care about it (to the opposite to "/M/Description").