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New request: Maxi versions of the Wiktionary to be systematically published

Open Exponent4806 opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

Desired content:

wiktionary_de_all_maxi wiktionary_en_all_maxi wiktionary_fr_all_maxi

And all the other major languages: Russian, Japanese, Chinese, etc. See issue #1535

  • Website URL:
    https://wiktionary.org/

  • Desired ZIM Description: Maxi versions of Wiktionaries (to be systematically published)

I use .zim files on GoldenDict-ng as dictionaries for language learning. Images are one of the most important parts of Wiktionaries for language learners. For example, a learner of German might find the word "Streichholz" and if the person sees an image, the concept is immediately understood:

German Wiktionary on "Goldendict-ng"

with images (2024-05):

Image

without images (nopic 2025-09):

Image

If the image is not available, the learner might not be able to understand at all sometimes. So, eliminating the images is "killing" the Wiktionary on .zim format.

Exponent4806 avatar Oct 04 '25 08:10 Exponent4806

This looks contradictory with decisions / discussions we've made in https://github.com/openzim/zim-requests/issues/1304

benoit74 avatar Oct 05 '25 07:10 benoit74