Offline content generator
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Offline Content Generator (OCG)
Creates offline formats from collections of mediawiki articles.
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The Offline Content Generator service created offline formats, such as PDF and even plaintext, from collections of mediawiki articles; ePub and ZIM were planned for the future but never implemented. The Collection extension is used via Special:Book to create collections. The OCG service then invokes a /Bundler to spider the articles and fetch all images, stylesheets, etc required to render them. One of several /Backends are then invoked to convert the bundle into a PDF, ZIM file, or other appropriate output format.
See wikitech:OCG for more information.
The service was turned off on Wikimedia wikis in October 2017 (background: Reading/Web/PDF Functionality T150871).
See also[edit]
- /2013 Code Sprint, project page for 2013 code sprint which created OCG
- /Bundle format
- /metabook.json
- /print-on-demand service
- wikitech:OCG, contains WMF sysadmin documentation for the OCG service.
- August 2016 community discussion with some remarks about the history of OCG