Content team

From openZIM
Revision as of 11:31, 15 December 2023 by Kelson (talk | contribs) (→‎Duties)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

The Content team gathers people in charge of providing books in the ZIM format. It has emerged - as effort - in the early 2020s as part of a strong content strategy.

Purpose

Provide the best possible (appealing, up2date, small, 'market ready', ...) library of ZIM based books.

Goals

  • Books topics should stick to needs
  • Books should have proper visual formatting
  • Books should be up-to-date
  • Library should allow to discover quickly and nicely (new) books

Duties

  • Requests
    • Collaborate with requesters to qualify requests properly. Keep them informed.
    • Ensure we are allowed and able to fullfill requests
    • Initiate new recipes and manage first publishing if new book
    • Collaborate with scraper dev. team if necessary
    • Keep the tickets up2date
  • Zimfarm
    • Ensure Zimfarm works fine and contribute to its improvements with dev. team
    • Analyses failures or unexpected behaviors
    • Ensure recipes run properly, fix configuration when necessary and contribute to scraper improvements with dev. team
    • Ensure workers are online and are properly configured
    • Ensure scrapes lifecycle is correct (Reasonable pipeline size, Running scrapes progressing appropriately, not too many failures)
  • CMS
    • Ensure ZIM filenames and location (paths) are correct
    • Ensure ZIM Metadata are correct
    • Ensure ZIM are recent and kept up2date (AFAP)
    • Ensure library is coherent and user-friendly

See also