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Provide a thumbImage path for each article
@automactic commented on Jan 17, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC:
It might be a good idea to provide an optional thumbImage link in search result.
This way, when loading the search results, the apps utilizing kiwix-lib could show thumbImage alongside title and snippet. The book favicon can be displayed when thumbImage is absent. This make it obvious if a search result comes from a zim file with or without pictures, leading to a better user experience.
This issue was moved by kelson42 from kiwix/libkiwix#109.
@kelson42 commented on Jan 17, 2018, 6:48 PM UTC:
Yes... that said I have no clue exactly how this should achieved.
@automactic commented on Jan 17, 2018, 7:07 PM UTC:
We can do this by adding the src of a <img> (the first, for instance) in the html during indexing to Xapian::Documents using void add_value.
@kelson42 commented on Jan 17, 2018, 7:15 PM UTC:
Yes, what you need to know is that the Mediawiki API already proposes such a feature, so ideally which should get the information from there (I suspect their algorithm is a bit more subtitle than just taking the first one). Maybe we could put this as metadata in the HTML <HEAD>?
@automactic commented on Jan 17, 2018, 7:22 PM UTC:
I agree with using the Mediawiki API if is already implemented. That said, it is still necessary to consider other offliners.
But I don't think it is a good idea to put it in <head>, since you have to get the content of the html and build the doc tree. Why not add this as a meta of xapian document?
@kelson42 commented on Jan 17, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC:
@automactic The problem is that the for now, and as long as we do not use node-libzim, in mwoffliner, the static HTML is more or less the only way to exchange information beetween the online web site and the final ZIM file (through zimwriterfs).
@automactic commented on Jan 17, 2018, 7:39 PM UTC:
If we utilize features in Mediawiki, why does it matter if we use node or not? Surely we can just make requests to Mediawiki API and ask for a thumbImage link for an article.
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@kelson42 commented on Jul 9, 2021, 5:28 AM UTC:
This is more a request for the libzim than for libkiwix IMO. It is related to the global metadata problematic.
