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Open-source offline browser for public domain projects
Kiwix Developer(s )
Renaud Gaudin
Desktop 2.3.1 / 16 April 2023; 15 months ago (2023-04-16 ) [1] Android 3.10 / 27 May 2024; 50 days ago (2024-05-27 ) [2] iOS 1.15.6 / 24 May 2022; 2 years ago (2022-05-24 ) [3] Electron 2.4.4 / 14 April 2023; 15 months ago (2023-04-14 ) [4] UWP 2.4.4 / 13 April 2023; 15 months ago (2023-04-13 ) [5] Browsers 3.6.0 / 12 November 2022; 20 months ago (2022-11-12 ) [6]
Repository Written in C++ (desktop), Kotlin (Android), Swift (iOS, macOS), JavaScript (browser, Electron, UWP)Operating system Android , iOS , macOS , Windows , Linux , Windows 10 Mobile , Ubuntu Touch [7] Size
Electron: 71.1 MB
Android: 80 MB
iOS: 48.3 MB
UWP: 12.1 MB
Available in 100 languages[8] License GPLv3 Website www
Kiwix Android App
Kiwix is a free and open-source offline web browser created by Emmanuel Engelhart and Renaud Gaudin in 2007.[9] offline access to Wikipedia , but has since expanded to include other projects from the Wikimedia Foundation , public domain texts from Project Gutenberg , many of the Stack Exchange sites, and many other resources. Available in more than 100 languages, Kiwix has been included in several high-profile projects, from smuggling operations in North Korea [10] Bibliothèques Sans Frontières .[11]
History [ edit ]
Founder Emmanuel Engelhart sees Wikipedia as a common good , saying "The contents of Wikipedia should be available for everyone! Even without Internet access . This is why I have launched the Kiwix project."[9]
After becoming a Wikipedia editor in 2004, Engelhart became interested in developing offline versions of Wikipedia. A project to make a Wikipedia CD, initiated in 2003, was a trigger for the project.[9]
In 2012, Kiwix received a grant from Wikimedia France to build a kiwix-plug, which was deployed to universities in eleven countries known as the Afripedia Project .[12] [13] SourceForge 's Project of the Month award[14] Open Source Award in 2015.[15]
Description [ edit ]
The software is designed as an offline reader for a web content. It can be used on computers without an internet connection , computers with a slow or expensive connection, or to avoid censorship . It can also be used while travelling (e.g. on a plane or train ).
Users first download Kiwix, then download content for offline viewing with Kiwix. Compression saves disk space and bandwidth . All of English-language Wikipedia, with pictures, fits on a large USB stick or external media.[a] [14] [16]
All content files are compressed in ZIM format , which makes them smaller, but leaves them easy to index, search, and selectively decompress.
The ZIM files are then opened with Kiwix, which looks and behaves like a web browser . Kiwix offers full text search , tabbed navigation , and the option to export articles to PDF and HTML .[8]
There is an HTTP server version called kiwix-serve ; this allows a computer to host Kiwix content, and make it available to other computers on a network.[17] HTTP server version for plug computers ,[14] Wi-Fi server .[18]
Available content [ edit ]
Reading Wikipedia through Kiwix on a boat in the South Pacific [19]
A list of content available on Kiwix is available for download, including language-specific sublists.[20]
Since 2014, most Wikipedia versions are available for download in various different languages.[16] [21]
Besides Wikipedia, content from the Wikimedia Foundation such as Wikisource , Wikiquote , Wikivoyage , Wikibooks , and Wikiversity are also available for offline viewing in various different languages.[22]
In November 2014, a ZIM version of all open texts forming part of Project Gutenberg was made available.[23] [24]
Besides public domain content, works licensed under a Creative Commons license are available for download as well. For example, offline versions of the Ubuntu wiki containing user documentation for the Ubuntu operating system,[25] TED conference talks[26] Crash Course are available in the Kiwix archive as ZIM file formats.[27]
Historic Wikipedia articles selection releases [ edit ]
Between 2007 and 2011, three CD/DVD versions containing a selection of articles from the English Wikipedia were released.[28] [29]
Deployments [ edit ]
Kiwix can be installed on a desktop computer as a stand-alone program, installed on a tablet or smartphone , or can create its own WLAN environment from a Raspberry Pi .
As a software development project, Kiwix itself is not directly involved in deployment projects. However, third party organizations do use the software as a component of their own projects. Examples include:
Locations of 13 universities in 11 countries where Kiwix was deployed as part of the Afripedia Project
Package managers and app stores [ edit ]
Medical Wikipedia app on a smartphone
Kiwix is available in the native package managers of most Linux distributions. From 2014 to 2020, it was absent, due to XULRunner , a program on which Kiwix depended, being deprecated by Mozilla and removed from the package databases .[49] [50]
Kiwix is available on Debian [51] Ubuntu [52] Linux Mint ,[citation needed Fedora [53] RPM -based distributions, such as openSUSE ,[54] Sugar ,[citation needed Arch Linux ,[55] NixOS [56] Flatpak version is also available.[57] Android . Kiwix JS UWP and Electron packages are available in the native Windows package manager winget .
Kiwix is available in the Microsoft Store ,[5] on Google Play ,[58] Apple 's iOS App Store .[3] browser extensions for Firefox and Chromium (Chrome , Edge ) and as a Progressive Web Application (PWA),[59] Electron packages of the HTML5 app are compiled for Windows and popular Linux distributions.[60] Medical Wikipedia and PhET simulations are the two largest.
See also [ edit ]
GoldenDict supports the ZIM file format since 2013,[61]
XOWA
Internet-in-a-Box
Notes and references [ edit ]
^ 102 GB with pictures, 52 GB without pictures, and 13 GB with only the introduction, as of 22 March 2024.
References [ edit ]
^ a b "Kiwix on the App Store" . App Store
^ "Kiwix JS Windows/Linux: Releases" . GitHub
^ a b "Kiwix JS" . Windows Store Microsoft .
^ "Kiwix JS" . GitHub
^ "OpenStore" . OpenStore . Retrieved 2024-01-02 .
^ a b "Kiwix" . SourceForge . Retrieved 22 March 2012 .
^ a b c d Sutherland, Joe. Emmanuel Engelhart, Inventor of Kiwix: the Offline Wikipedia Browser Wikimedia Blog . 12 September 2014. Accessed on 26 November 2014.
^ "The plot to free North Korea with smuggled episodes of 'Friends' . Wired . Retrieved 27 April 2016 .
^ "Les Lauréats du Google Impact Challenge" . Retrieved 27 April 2016 .
^ Citazine article on Afripedia (in French)
^ Traoré, Kardiatou (13 August 2012). "Afripédia : un projet de promotion de Wikipédia en Afrique" . www.afrik.com . Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ a b c d e f g "Kiwix Aims to spread Wikipedia's Reach" . dice.com. 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2013-07-10 .
^ "OSS Awards küren Schweizer Open-Source-Projekte" . Netzwoche. 29 October 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015 .
^ a b "Content in all languages - Kiwix" . wiki.kiwix.org . Retrieved 8 August 2016 .
^ Kiwix-serve
^ "Kiwix-plug - Kiwix" . wiki.kiwix.org . Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ a b "Sailing the South Pacific with a copy of Wikipedia on board: The Goodall Family" . Wikimedia Blog . Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ "Content in all languages - Kiwix" . wiki.kiwix.org . Retrieved 2017-06-09 .
^ Truong, Kevin (2020-07-10). "You Can Download the Entirety of English Wikipedia to Browse Offline" . Vice . Retrieved 2023-07-27 .
^ Zim archive for Kiwix
^ Engelhart, Emmanuel. 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline .Wikisource -l-Mailinglist, Wikimedia Foundation . 19 November 2014. Accessed on 26 November 2014.
^ "Words and what not: #Wikimedia & Project #Gutenberg - the sum of all knowledge" . ultimategerardm.blogspot.ch . 20 November 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ Ubuntuusers Hilfsmittel
^ Kiwix archive for TED
^ Kiwix archive for additional content
^ "wikipediaondvd.com" . 2007-04-27. Archived from the original on 27 April 2007. Retrieved 2022-06-22 .
^ "Index of /archive/zim/wikipedia" . download.kiwix.org . Retrieved 2022-06-22 .
^ "Wikipedia Version 0.5 at download.kiwix.org" .
^ "Wikipedia Version 0.5 at Internet Archive" .
^ "Wikipedia Version 0.7 at download.kiwix.org" .
^ "Wikipedia Version 0.7 at Internet Archive" .
^ "Wikipedia Version 0.8 at download.kiwix.org" .
^ "Wikipedia Version 0.8 at Internet Archive" .
^ "Main Page - Kiwix" . wiki.kiwix.org . Retrieved 16 February 2022 .
^ "Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa" . Wikimedia Blog . Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ "Off-line solutions for reaching students with limited or no internet access" . UNESCO International Bureau of Education. 7 May 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2022 .
^ "Raspberry Pi in Masekelo: Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity" . Wikimedia Blog . Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ "Children in Mali can now read Wikipedia offline, thanks to MALebooks e-readers" . Wikimedia Blog . Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ "West African schools will test Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader" . Wikimedia Outreach Education Newsletter . Wikimedia Foundation . 31 August 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2017 .
^ "Kiwix is mentioned on the thank-you page" . Zedaga (in French). Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017 .
^ Fondation Orange: le programme "écoles numériques" Archived 5 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine .
^ "Hans Oleander: Using offline Wikipedia to guide tours at the bottom of the Earth" . Wikimedia Blog . Retrieved 11 June 2017 .
^ "Kiwix'le Wikipedia'ya ulaşmak hala mümkün" . gazetekarinca.com (in Turkish). 5 May 2017. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ "Navigatrix.net - A Voyager's Companion" . navigatrix.net . Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ "Navigatrix – the first Linux distribution for cruisers" . Your Cruising Editor . 30 July 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ Amarilli, Antoine. "A local copy of Wikipedia with Kiwix - a3nm's blog" . a3nm.net . Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ "Debian" . wiki.kiwix.org . Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ "Debian Package Tracker: kiwix offline Wikipedia reader" . Debian Foundation. Retrieved 8 August 2022 .[permanent dead link
^ "Debian -- Details of package kiwix in bookworm" . packages.debian.org . Retrieved 2023-06-24 .
^ "Ubuntu – Details of package kiwix in kinetic" . packages.ubuntu.com . Retrieved 2023-06-24 .
^ "kiwix-desktop - Fedora Packages" . packages.fedoraproject.org . Retrieved 2023-06-24 .
^ "openSUSE Software" . software.opensuse.org . Retrieved 2023-06-24 .
^ "Arch Linux - kiwix-desktop 2.3.1-3 (x86_64)" . archlinux.org . Retrieved 2023-06-24 .
^ Kiwix Nixpkg , retrieved 2023-06-24
^ "Kiwix" . Flathub . Retrieved 2023-06-24 .
^ "Kiwix, Wikipedia offline - Android Apps on Google Play" . Google Play . Retrieved 8 March 2016 .
^ "Kiwix JS PWA" . Retrieved 15 May 2021 .
^ "Releases · kiwix/kiwix-js-windows" . GitHub . Retrieved 2022-05-24 .
^ "Add Support Kiwix Encyclopedia of Wikipedia ".zim" file type · Issue #267 · goldendict/goldendict" . GitHub . Retrieved 2021-11-30 .
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