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Kiwix is an offline reader for multimedia content. It's especially thought to make Wikipedia available offline (see features). This is done by reading the content of the project stored in a file format ZIM, a high compressed open format with additional meta-data.
News
Micro blog
- kelson: !Kiwix 0.9 alpha6 was released and Web site, Sourceforge and PPA are up to date. Have a look to the CHANGELOG http://tinyurl.com/yhf5fgz
- kelson: !Kiwix Have released a new version of the French #Wikipedia ZIM http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/wikipedia_fr_all_kiwix_07_2010_beta2.zim
- kelson: Where are the !Kiwix downloaders from? Answer here https://sourceforge.net/downloads/kiwix/stats_map
- kelson: !Kiwix Screencast in English, with old WP1 0.5 ZIM (where going through the result list seems to be slow!?) http://tinyurl.com/2vef9no
- kelson: !Kiwix in the TOP3, category Education, on Sourceforge http://tinyurl.com/2u9a66n
- kelson: !Kiwix now able to deal with mouse back/forward wheel events to easily navigate in the navigation history.
- kelson: !Kiwix ist now able to deal with splitted ZIM files. This was mandatory to deal with big files, also on old filesystems like FAT32.
- 2010-07-23 : Kiwix has now its own PPA (Personal Package Archive) for Ubuntu : https://launchpad.net/~kiwixteam/+archive/ppa
- 2010-04-22 : Have released Kiwix 0.9 alpha1. This version benefits of a lot of improvements comparing to the 0.8. It especially runs (again) on MS Windows. Here is the full CHANGELOG. You may downloaded here the Windows version with the WP1 EN 0.7 30.000 Wikipedia articles.
- 2010-03-28 : Kiwix compiles again under Windows... but this time the process is really simple and documented.
- 2010-02-15 : I have released the final 0.8 version. I wasn't been working on it since months and no bugs were reported in the last Release Candidate. See you soon with the first 0.9 alpha.
- 2010-01-23 : First version in the SVN of kiwix-serve, an HTTP server able to serve a ZIM file and using the Kiwix search engine - demo.
Downloads
- ↓ MS Windows 32 bits
- Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kiwixteam/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kiwix
| Wikipedia ZIM Downloads | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| he | ar | fr | it | zh | ml | |
| Size | 2.1G ↓ | 731M ↓ | 9.7GB ↓ | 8.3GB ↓ | 3.2G ↓ | 248M ↓ |
| Number of articles | all | all | all | all | all | all |
| Date Created | 04-Apr-2010 | 05-Mar-2010 | 05-Aug-2010 | 01-Apr-2010 | 08-Jun-2010 | 24-Jun-2010 |
| Others | ||||||
Contact
- Report a bug or make a feature request
- Email: kiwix-developer (at) lists.sourceforge.net or kelson (at) kiwix.org
- Jabber: kelson (at) kiwix.org
- IRC: #kiwix on irc.freenode.net join or use web interface
- SVN: to be kept informed per email about SVN commits, kiwix-svn (at) lists.sourceforge.net.
