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Le Dr. Richard Stallman, figure emblématique du mouvement du logiciel libre et fondateur de la Free Software Foundation, sera à Lausanne le 17 janvier prochain dans les locaux de l’école 42 Lausanne. Lors de cet événement unique, il animera une conférence dédiée au « Coût de la liberté » (The Cost of Freedom), sujet crucial...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

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