• Kiwix JS 4.3.0 is out – Theme overhaul and Quality of Life Improvements!

    Kiwix JS 4.3.0 is out – Theme overhaul and Quality of Life Improvements!

    It’s already been almost five months since the last release: we’re excited to announce the arrival of Kiwix JS Browser Extension v4.3! This release brings a complete reimagining of the dark/light theme system, making it smarter and more adaptive than ever before, together with improvements to archive loading, file-system management and numerous fixes. And to...read more
  • Question time, Q4 2025

    Question time, Q4 2025

    Here is a summary of questions that popped here and there over the past couple of months: Where can one download a pre-2022 (meaning pre-AI slop) of the English Wikipedia? Wikipedia is probably still very much slop-free thanks to its myriad editors and a policy to shoot on sight if AI is suspected, but there...read more
  • What an Unconference can teach about open source

    What an Unconference can teach about open source

    In late October, as autumn draped Munich in its golds and greys, a curious gathering took place: the Google Mentor Summit, an annual conclave for those who guide the next generation of open-source contributors. It is, as one attendee put it, “the place to be” for mentors and organisers of the Google Summer of Code...read more