Medline plus in English

[Popolechien]

• Website URL: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/
• License: Public domain
• Desired ZIM Title: Medline Plus
• Desired ZIM Description: Trusted Health Information for You
• Desired ZIM Icon –png (URL or attach one): n/a
• Language (ISO 639-3): eng
• Is this a MediaWiki?: no

See also #992

[Popolechien]

Notes :
Only the medical encyclopedia part is being targeted. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/ redirects to https://medlineplus.gov/encyclopedia.html so I'm not sure how that will influence things

[Popolechien]

If the scrape does not work then https://iiab.me/modules/en-medline_plus/ is a possible alternative.

[MrnateGeek]

I got the icon in 5 seconds
https://medlineplus.gov/images/touch-icon.png

[kelson42]

@Popolechien Why only the encyclopedia part? For example https://medlineplus.gov/healthtopics.html seems of interest as well?

[Popolechien]

@kelson42 that would be #994

[benoit74]

Recipe created at https://farm.openzim.org/recipes/medlineplus.gov_en_ency ; limit set to only 100 pages for now to check website behavior (custom CSS will be needed anyway)

[benoit74]

Discussed atm with Popolechien, we will ZIM the whole website, we do not see real arguments for ZIMing only the encyclopedia

[benoit74]

Custom CSS developed and recipe reconfigured.

Launching with only 1000 pages for now.

Will probably have an issue with pages with videos like https://medlineplus.gov/ency/anatomyvideos/000002.htm (will probably clob the ZIM but not work at all, same issue as #323: openzim/zimit#353)

[benoit74]

Recipe moved to https://farm.openzim.org/recipes/medlineplus.gov_en_all/

[benoit74]

No issue found with video, file is simply an mp4 and everything is working well on test page mentioned above.

Just started the full ZIM creation in dev.

[benoit74]

File is ready in dev: https://dev.library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&q=medline, looks ok to me.

Please review as well before moving to prod

[Popolechien]

LGTM.

On a side note, the huge number of external links makes it all the more important to look into openzim/zimit/issues/374 and decide on blocking them or at a very minimum flag them.

[benoit74]

Requested in production, will update when file is ready.

[benoit74]

File is ready in production.

Note that on library.kiwix.org it is impacted (and Medline ES too) by kiwix/operations#280 but ZIM is OK, this is only a problem with our infra / kiwix-serve instance, not the ZIM itself, so I close the issue.

ZIM is playing fine in dev, with kiwix apple reader, and would probably play fine on a hotspot.