Post #1108586

2025-01-21 22:29 UTC

If anyone wants their own personal copy of Wikipedia on their computer, phone or tablet, a copy that cannot be deleted or edited by anyone else, there&#39;s an app called @kiwix that makes this possible: https://kiwix.org You can use the same app to install offline copies of lots of wiki-powered sites and many others too. I have a copy of WikiVoyage on my phone so wherever I go there&#39;s always some kind of info about it without needing an internet connection. #Wikipedia

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@evan@cosocial.ca 2025-01-21 22:52

@FediThing @kiwix I didn't know you could do it with Wikivoyage. Cool!

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@PatrickWirth@mstdn.ca 2025-01-22 04:21

@FediThing @kiwix @LaLaOrange Have a spare laptop with few TB of space on it? You can quickly torrent the full #wikipedia as a ~100G zim file. Many languages too. Just add .torrent to the zim filename and open that url in your tor client. Check the mirror and readme docs.!! ‘Zimit’ folder has other offline websites as zim files. ‘Other’ has other wikis Text listings: https://download.kiwix.org/ https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ Or web GUI to same files and #torrents : https://library.kiwix.org

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@phil_stevens@mastodon.nz 2025-01-22 05:09

@FediThing @kiwix How graceful is the update process? Something like rsync on a daily or weekly basis would be a nice feature.

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@ChuckMcManis@chaos.social 2025-01-22 05:15

@FediThing @kiwix I'm not saying you should throw up copies of wikipedia that have had all the facts changed so that AI will scrape them and poison the training model because that would be bad.

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@drazraeltod@chaos.social 2025-01-22 21:06

@FediThing @dichotomiker @kiwix back in the early 2000s we had mobipocket for that before 24/7-mobile internet was a thing it was sooooo useful to always have a full (no images) copy of wikipedia on the PDA!

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