openzim/overview
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Is openzim/overview beginner-friendly?
We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to openzim/overview to say how often they are merged. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.
- Stars
- 9
- Forks
- 2
- Open beginner issues
- 1
- Indexed issues
- 42
- Dominant language
- HTML
- License
- No license data
- Last GitHub push
- Aug 20, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 19, 2026
- Contributing guide
- No contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- No code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- No beginner labels indexed
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
How to contribute to openzim/overview
- There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
- Pick the open beginner-friendly issue below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100
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Clarify distinction between ZIM publisher and ZIM producerMay be free again @kelson42 claimed this 115 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Document difference between ZIM alias and redirectMay be free again @benoit74 claimed this 187 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Enhance and standardize solution for healtcheck monitoringMay be free again @rgaudin claimed this 339 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement
openzim/overview#72 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 3 assignees ·
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Manage software maintenanceMay be free again @rgaudin claimed this 382 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement question
openzim/overview#61 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 3 assignees ·
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Support language variantsMay be free again @benoit74 claimed this 31 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement question
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Define and implement a policy/process to publish third-party ZIMs in our libraryMay be free again @benoit74 claimed this 396 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement
openzim/overview#58 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·
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Use pre-commit.ci?Openquestion
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Security concept for our Web platformsMay be free again @rgaudin claimed this 418 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement question
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
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Define a strategy for storage of "user data" in readersMay be free again @rgaudin claimed this 570 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Ensure all scrapers clearly indicate that Docker is the recommend installation methodMay be free again @benoit74 claimed this 627 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement
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Host documentation on our infra at docs.kiwix.org and docs.openzim.orgMay be free again @rgaudin claimed this 659 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openquestion
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Consider supporting readthedocsMay be free again @rgaudin claimed this 659 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement question
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Fix scraper versions and `Scraper` metadata in our scrapersMay be free again @benoit74 claimed this 781 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
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Frontend: Should we replace bootstrap (by Vuetify or Tailwind CSS) in the conventionMay be free again @benoit74 claimed this 946 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openquestion
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Define a CHANGELOG conventionMay be free again @benoit74 claimed this 1016 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openquestion
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Define a convention on TCP/UDP ports used by development stacksMay be free again @kelson42 claimed this 1040 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openquestion
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Decide where content team documentation should be placedMay be free again @RavanJAltaie claimed this 1067 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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Upgrade python-scraperlib to 3.x, including CLI support for description / long_description flagsOpen
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Consider saving content publication date in the ZIMMay be free again @kelson42 claimed this 1482 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openenhancement stale
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
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ZIM paths dealing with path hierarchy are not accessible in most our readersPossibly taken @kelson42 claimed this 20 days ago. Openbug
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What's the publishing process for custom apps?Possibly taken @benoit74 claimed this 20 days ago. Openquestion