Define and implement a policy/process to publish third-party ZIMs in our library

[benoit74]

While the medium-term goal is to have dedicated library (or libraries) for third-party contributed ZIMs, we do have a short-term will to publish some good quality ZIMs.

The matter has been discussed with @Popolechien and @kelson42.

Output of the discussion were (correct me if I missed something):

• we are ok to publish ZIMs if they match our criteria: match our policy and quality expectations (zimcheck does not report any error, metadata are inline with our specification and convention and are understandable, ...)
• we will publish them manually (like I will download them on the server) inside a special /contrib warehouse path

First ZIMs to follow the process:

• Emergency-Hospital-and-Emergency-Clinic-Handbook (by the Norwegian Red Cross)
• Privacy Guides
• Maybe Libre Pathology, but for now it looks like we will generate our own

@rgaudin your views are always welcomed since you have background on this matter

[benoit74]

Edit: just added "Privacy Guides" in first comment, I almost forgot about these ZIMs... very sorry

[rgaudin]

LGTM ; I think the policy is relatively open for interpretation so I'd suggest for each such addition you open a ticket with tick boxes for every element of the policy so we know why it was added. I envision it will often be non-free content.
Also, I think was exactly goes into Publisher and Creator metadata should be clarified. I think some tools might have kiwix default values…

[benoit74]

Thank you @rgaudin for this valuable feedback

I've created a first version at https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/Content_team#Publish_third-party_ZIMs

Of course we will refine this over time as we detect things which are not working as expected.

[rgaudin]

Great ; I also think there should be some kind of lifecycle management. Would there be updates? When should we take them out of the catalog? I guess it's the same as our own policy but I think it's good to ask ourselves those questions when adding to the catalog.

[Popolechien]

Adding Omimo.org to the list of third-party ZIM files that could be integrated