Kiwix offers full text search, tabbed navigation, and the option to export articles to PDF and HTML. The ZIM files are then opened with Kiwix, which looks and behaves like a web browser. Īll content files are compressed in ZIM format, which makes them smaller, but leaves them easy to index, search, and selectively decompress. All of English-language Wikipedia, with pictures, fits on a large USB stick or external media (82 GB as of March 2021, or 43 GB with no pictures). Compression saves disk space and bandwidth. Users first download Kiwix, then download content for offline viewing with Kiwix. It can also be used while travelling (e.g. It can be used on computers without an internet connection, computers with a slow or expensive connection, or to avoid censorship. The software is designed as an offline reader for a web content. In February 2013 Kiwix won SourceForge's Project of the Month award and an Open Source Award in 2015.
In 2012, Kiwix won a grant from Wikimedia France to build kiwix-plug, which was deployed to universities in eleven countries known as the Afripedia Project. A project to make a Wikipedia CD, initiated in 2003, was a trigger for the project. This is why I have launched the Kiwix project." Īfter becoming a Wikipedia editor in 2004, Engelhart became interested in developing offline versions of Wikipedia. Founder Emmanuel Engelhart sees Wikipedia as a common good, saying "The contents of Wikipedia should be available for everyone! Even without Internet access.
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