That's probably fine if you're researching geography, history or similar topics, but it's much more of an issue if you're browsing pages for music, TV, film, or anything else which might see regular updates on a daily basis.
#Kiwix wikia Offline#
One problem here is these offline editions are often a few months out of date. Run a search, or browse the index click a link, and the relevant article appears, complete with images, ready for you to review.
But there are also smaller editions - the "45,000 best articles", or "6000 Wikipedia articles for school children" - along with extras like Wikivoyage ("The free worldwide travel guide") and more.ĭownload any file you like, load it in your library, and you can browse it just like regular Wikipedia. When we checked the list, the main file was "Wikipedia", a 9.68GB download containing all the site's English language articles (some 3.87 million, in total).
#Kiwix wikia android#
I guess your statistics show more mobile usage than desktop (which is surprising to me) and if so, I obviously can't expect you to maintain two versions (updates are evidently already difficult enough) so I would probably be correct in assuming that all your future releases will be mobile versions? 2017-07 for the foreseeable future for me, I guess.Kiwix is an open source tool which allows you to download Wikipedia content to PCs, Macs, Linux or Android devices, and browse it offline.Īgree to download the list of library files when the program first launches, click "Get new files", and you'll see a list of available content. I tried a few versions since 2020 and they were all mobile, so I am using the last 'good' version I have, from 2017-07 (though there should also be a 2018-10 version, which I unfortunately failed to download at the time). But I could bear this, if not for the mobile versions. Old version went to the article instantly.
#Kiwix wikia full#
it's impossible to directly go to an article with the typed title, instead it always makes a full text search in articles, which takes minutes, and then I need to find and click the one among results. Plus the client to browser them is inferior e.g. no navboxes) and in my opinion look much worse. If you want to donate computing power (particularly for non-mediawiki material), help with mirroring or simply support the project (which is fully free and open-source yet is definitely not free to maintain), follow the links!Īre these still using mobile Wikipedia layout instead of desktop? Ever since Kiwix resumed updates last year after a long break, new versions only contained mobile versions even for desktops, which lack crucial content (e.g. Don't quote me on this but we plan to resume a monthly schedule for updates.
It still takes almost a week and a half to process We ended up killing two of our virtual machines and merging them in order to get extra processing power (the uncompressed Wikipedia would be more in the 400Gb range, IIRC) Even with all issues fixed, there still was the problem with the sheer size of the English Wikipedia - 6.4M articles make for close to 100M objects when you include templates, links, images and whatnot.
#Kiwix wikia update#
These issues affected all wikis with > 1M articles, so if you speak French, German or Polish know that an update is also on its way for you (if it is not there already). Since then we have been plagued with mediawiki-related issues Foundation-side, which where resolved one by one (thanks to them!). The latest version was from March 2021 (82 Gb, about 2-300k fewer articles). Alright, seems like people had kept their eyes peeled for it - we wanted to make a formal announcement when the newer zim had spread to all mirrors (it has not been posted yet on r/kiwix, you hoarders are animals) but yes, there is a brand new Wikipedia_all_maxi (meaning all articles, with images) available as of this morning.
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