Forum:Downloading a Wiki as a ZIM file for offline viewing.

How can I download a wiki hoseted by Wikia as a ZIM file for offline viewing in Kiwix without seting up a mirror or doing a direct HTML dump from Wikia.

To be more specific i plan on downloading the freeciv wiki (http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page)

i have aready downloaded the XML dump for the wiki from http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics

Is their a way to download the wiki as a ZIM file or a way to convert the XML dump to a ZIM file without seting up a mirror? —This unsigned comment is by Chris Wsrn (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * From the Wikipedia article: "It is now possible to read any Wikimedia project, not just Wikipedia for which it was originally designed." Wikia isn't part of Wikimedia, as such I don't think this is possible.


 * Thanks


 * I do know that Wikia uses MediaWiki (The software that powers Wikimedia). Do you know if Wikia plans on adding Extension:Collection (the tool that Wikimedia uses for exporting ZIM files) to their Wikis?
 * Also do you know how to request features for Wikia without spaming the webmaster? Chris Wsrn 17:26, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * Special:Contact is the place to ask --  Random Time  17:28, August 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks -- Chris Wsrn 01:50, August 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * No, Wikia has no plans to release content in anything other than XML (at least that I know of). This really isn't for a nefarious reason - it's simply hard enough to keep up with the demand for XML dumps when we have nearly 2 million active wikis and an XML dump is much easier on our servers than ZIM or SQL or any other result format. --daNASCAT http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 16:40, August 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think you meant 300,000 active wikis - it's the number of users that's in the millions.