Kiwix Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Why I Bought an Encyclopedia

  Try Kiwix. It's an offline reader, you can download the complete English-language Wikipedia, complete with media, in about 100GB. They also have a bunch of other collections like Project Gutenberg. https://kiwix.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• An Introduction to the WARC File

  Very helpful to know that! Zimit[1] also uses warc files as an intermediate step to producing Zim files. You can use these Zim files to read and search websites offline with the excellent app Kiwix[2]. I think 'Kiwix for Android' and the Kiwix PWA support Zim files made with Zimit, with the support with the desktop Kiwix application currently work-in-progress. Other information about archiving websites is... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Wikipedia exec salaries are sparking a debate on tech sector wages

  For the locally hosted part of it, you’re looking at Kiwix[1]. [1] https://kiwix.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy

  Without article history and videos, it's small enough that many modern smartphones can have a local offline copy. http://kiwix.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Downloadable resources?

  It is pretty massive, but you can get the whole thing in a .zim file from kiwix.org. I downloaded it from there and put it on all my units before shipping them out. Source: over 1 year ago

• Looking for the Ultimate Mathematics Reference Book

  You can also go to the Kiwix website (kiwix.org), and search for other mathematics websites under Download -> Contents. Here is the search result for English, Math. Source: almost 2 years ago

• 15 STHF items to have, according to ChatGTP.

  That's https://kiwix.org, it's an awesome project. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Your objective is to go back into time in the 1700s and blow the minds of everyone there. What do you bring?

  Just going to serious mode for a second... If anyone is travelling in modern day earth to somewhere with limited Internet access (e.g. North Korea, parts of rural Africa) the KIWIX project https://kiwix.org provides a simple way to get all of Wikipedia, Gutenberg Library, TED talks onto a small portable device like a raspberry pi. Source: over 2 years ago

• Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions

  Nice! Next up: encapsulate ip to provide full networking (with terrible latency) also just in case someone is wondering, a more ergonomic solution specifically for reading wikipedia on a plane is https://kiwix.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Searching for Project Gutenberg ePubs

  You could use kiwix to host your own offline copy of Project Gutenberg. There are downloadable content modules in different languages at Https://ebookfoundation.org/openzim.html. Source: almost 3 years ago

• openZIM/Kiwix ZIM file repository

  This is the openZIM/Kiwix ZIM file repository. These ZIM files are static versions of online Web sites. One time downloaded, they can be used without requiring any access to the Web. To fully enjoy them use a ZIM compatible reader like Kiwix. More information at https://openzim.org and https://kiwix.org. Source: about 3 years ago

• Why do WIKI dumps have 2 different months for each dump?

  You guessed right for the mini/nopic/maxi (it's also explained on kiwix.org's FAQ), and as for Ray Charles and Wikipedia 100 those are test files :small and quick downloads, but if things work for these guys then everything works. Source: over 3 years ago

• StackOverflow bought out, should we be worried?

  Any idea where? kiwix.org seems to be having a tough day. Source: over 3 years ago

• I got arrested for illegally downloading the whole of Wikipedia

  You can download a compressed version of Wikipedia that works with a special free cross platform viewer, it takes up a lot less space and you don't need a server and stuff. https://kiwix.org. Source: almost 4 years ago