An update on the offline Wikipedia update
A few people have been writing to ask about an update to the English Wikipedia ZIM file, and we figured this would warrant a post of its own. TL;DR: the last run failed with new bugs, we’re releasing mediawiki offliner 1.15.1 and pushing through, new ETA is end June. About 99% of Wikipedia zim files...read more
WikiHow content has been deprecated
TL;DR: the WikiHow zim files have been deleted and there are no plans to bring them back. The longer story is that the WikiHow folks reached out around the end of 2024 asking for their removal. Their content is apparently being harvested left and right by LLMs for their training, and they are trying to...read more
Wikipedia offline is being revamped – status update
There’s been questions here and there asking why Wikipedia/the Wiktionary haven’t been updated in a while. It’s been mentioned in the newsletter already but this post is more of an evergreen place and it does not hurt to spread the word. As the title says, we are currently in the process of rewriting the entirety...read more
A major, better update to enjoy Youtube offline
Anyone wanted to browse a Youtube channel on Kiwix (there are hundreds available) was until recently faced with two major issues: Having dozens of videos made them huge and quite hard to download; The rendering was not great (to say the least), which did not encourage people to watch the content they’d just downloaded. And...read more
All TED talks have been updated – better compression, now work on Apple devices
It’s pretty much all in the title: all TED zim files have been re-created for your offline consumption and enjoyment. It’s all Tech, Entertainment, and Design from the best and brightest – or at least people who can present an interesting story without needing Powerpoint. Two major updates/fixes: Sound now works on Apple devices; Better...read more
zimit 2.0 is out!
It is now official: zimit 2.0, our (near-)universal content scraper, is out! Zimit is already available at zimit.kiwix.org, and we’ve also re-generated existing recipes that were running on the previous iteration. This labour of love has been 3 years in the asking and 13 months in the making: kudos to everyone involved. Zimit does what...read more
Kiwix Content Update #4
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Our (very) Long Tail
We are the offline internet.
Kiwix Content Update #3
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Kiwix Content Update #2
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