Category: 2024

A new release of Kiwix for Desktop (Windows/Linux) is now available for download. More than 200 tickets were closed over the past seven months, so it’s kind of a big deal. General FIX: Fullscreen (auto-)scrolling FIX: Main window title at start FIX: Proper fullscreen shortcut when run on WSL FIX: Settings directories display FIX: More...read more

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

New update for Android users: version 3.12 is currently rolling out. This new version supports Android 14, and can now go around this annoying playstore issue that prevented people from downloading zim files from outside the app and then transfer them to their phone. Changelog New Features Support for Android 14 Added `file picker` in...read more

TL;DR: if you need a cloud service you may want to avoid Hetzner. The longer story: On Sunday the 1st of December, at 00:00 (UTC), our main storage backend became entirely unreachable. For the average user that meant not being able to access the library and download files, and for us that meant not being...read more

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