Kiwix

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Free and open source software project #Kiwix has provided access to vital information in diverse places, including in isolated communities.

Read more on our series Building a #FreeInternetoftheFuture 👇

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well then you'll be happy to hear that we will be revamping the Gutenberg UI over the Summer 🥰

🤔 link?

Summon and we shall appear!
@hankgreen.bsky.social can you please confirm your channel can be shared and distributed?

For context Kiwix is a non-profit sharing highly-compressed offline copies of websites (e.g. Wikipedia) for people without internet access (prisons, camps, etc.).

Not that we know, but if it it Debian-based then this should be manageable.

Les dumps de la Fondation sont machine-readable, ceux de Kiwix sont pour les humains :-)

Concernant la discussion plus générale, c'est également un problème pour la WMF et ils vont commencer à bloquer les bots. "L'information est gratuite, pas l'infrastructure".

google kiwix, have fun.

(if you have a nas, you may be able to install kiwix directly onto it!)

We did have a few Government websites zim files and we stopped updating them in January.

But there's a lot of data that simply can't be zimmed up, though there are some efforts to download and hoard as much as possible

Well we just released our own hotspot hardware, so people will now be able to get them delivered to their door *and* support a non-profit.

kiwix.org/en/kiwix-hot...

(part of our funding comes from the Wikimedia Foundation and they have one of them on our board, but we are independent)

We're non profit, so yes donations are always welcome!
support.kiwix.org
Coffee's great too. Warm, caffeine-laced coffee. Hmmm.

Yeah well we're on it!
Mediawiki offline has just been released, we've started testing and smaller wikis are already back. If all goes well we're looking at a May-June return to normalcy.

If you are talking about the miraheze wiki, it looks like the site is under a CC license - you could simply ask to have it added to the Kiwix library github.com/openzim/zim-...

A screenshot of the mobile app of kiwix, originally an off-line wikipedia solution that's grown to include other stuff.

Instead of doomscrolling, I've taken to reading random little factoids and articles instead through kiwix. Recommended if you feel like browing the hellslab but want less stress in your life.

Ok checking out your website and we reckon openzim is probably the place you want to poke at.

Well Rachel, why not us? ✋

Not sure where your skillset (or interest) is, but feel free to ping our repos (github.com/openzim /kiwix /offspot)

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

Thanks. AI bots really seem to be a plague: thelibre.news/foss-infrast...

Hey ! Seeing what's happening to science and knowledge these past few weeks, I just published a step by step guide to deploy an offline wikipedia (among other sites) with docker. It's right here: dev.to/matthieusb/s...

It's using an awesome project called kiwix: kiwix.org/en

The 20GB dataset is a raw dump, i.e. not human-readable.
The ZIM file currently is the highest compression available for direct use by us mere mortals.

Please do share pictures when you're done with the actual thing!

The 20GB thing is for raw data (and no images). A highly compressed yet human-readable download would be in the 50GB range (102GB with images).

Still fits on a medium-range phone, nowadays.

So we looked into it (as well as arXiv), and it was not a trival endeavour, sadly.

Wish we'd had more time / resources though.

Hello, world.