Category: 2024

Some of you may have noticed that Kiwix downloads are down. Our hosting service pulled the plug without any warning at 00:00 on Sunday, December 1st. Though there is some irony to the fact that an offline service is going offline for real, we were not amused. Long story short, we have purchased new servers...read more

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

This place is no good, we outta here.

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

We are happy to announce that the new Hotspot Imager is now available to all. The Imager allows anyone to package zim files onto a $60 Raspberry Pi and use it as a simple hotspot to share your favourite educational websites in places without internet access. What’s new? Images now up to 1 TB (from...read more

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

Most people would not think twice about where their apps come from: they hear about a cool one that seems to meet their needs, go to the playstore, download, and voilà. A great and smooth experience, except for the part where nobody realized that it had them write off a bunch of functionalities they may...read more

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

A new version of your favourite offline internet reader has been released, with a number of fixes that you can see below. The important thing to note here is the update to the minimum version of macOS 13 et iOS 16 (but proper video reading will require macOS 15 and iOS 17). Here is the...read more

Quick how-to for people who like us struggled with figuring this box out.