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Kiwix is an offline reader for multimedia contents. It's especially though to make Wikipedia available offline (see features).
News
- 2009-07-02 : A the end, again a Beta5 of Kiwix v0.8 with again a few bug fixes and improvements, especially the introduction of help and a new page caching. (see the CHANGELOG).
- 2009-06-18 : Beta4 of Kiwix v0.8 with again a few bug fixes (see the CHANGELOG). This will be probably the last beta version.
- 2009-06-17 : Third (and probably) last alpha of the Spanish selection with more than 120.000 articles.
- 2009-06-11 : Alpha2 of the italian selection with almost 30.000 articles.
- 2009-06-10 : Beta3 of Kiwix v0.8 with a few improvements and bug fixes (see CHANGELOG) .
- 2009-06-07 : Second beta of Kiwix v0.8 patching a critical bug impacting using of large ZIM files on 32 bits architectures (see CHANGELOG) .
- 2009-06-05 : Now people speaking English, Spanish or French will automatically see the Web site in their language.
- 2009-06-04 : I have add a Map where you can localized people involved in the project or simply using Kiwix.
- 2009-06-03 : Second alpha version of the Spanish selection with more than 80.000 articles. Next version will have 120.000 articles and will certainly be the last alpha revision.
- 2009-05-26 : Second alpha version of the French selection with more than 30.000 articles.
- 2009-05-25 : I (Kelson) will be in Berlin with the whole Openzim team at the LinuxTag, visit us!
- 2009-05-24 : First beta of Kiwix v0.8. No feature will be added anymore and since last alpha, a few bugs have been patched, especially concerning the search/indexing process.
- 2009-05-22 : First public ZIM alpha of a 30.000 articles big selection (with thumbnails) of Wikipedia Spanish articles.
- 2009-05-17 : First public ZIM alpha of the WP1 0.7 selection here: the ~30.000 best articles with thumbnails!
- 2009-05-03 : I'm now able to get for any Wikipedia, all articles sorted by importance. This is essential to build selections. If you are interested, take a look to this code or contact me.
- 2009-04-19 : I have published a short screencast of Kiwix 0.8 alpha3.
- 2009-04-18 : The zimlib was rewritten. New and "old" ZIM files are incompatible. I have published a new alpha3 version of Kiwix 0.8 (only for Linux) here and with Xulrunner included here. I have also prepared a few ZIM files: wikipedia_en_wp1_0.5_2000+_03_2006_rc1.zim, wikipedia_es_fa+ga_2000+_04_2008_alpha1.zim, wikipedia_it_fa_1000+_-4_2008_alpha1.zim.
- 2009-03-25 : The alpha2 of Kiwix is published 0.8 (only for Linux) here and with Xulrunner included here. Feedbacks are like always welcome. A ZIM test file may be downloaded here.
- 2009-02-25 : From now Kiwix uses the new ZIM format (see subversion repository).
- 2009-02-25 : First openZIM meetup was a success, please see the press release, next one will be at the LinuxTag 2009 in June, in Berlin.
- 2009-02-17 : Kiwix will certainly use Xapian as search engine the its next releases, I have started to commit code in this way.
- 2009-01-27 : I have make a small doc (in French) about the tools I'm using.
- 2009-01-21 : The 21/21 February, the Openzim first meeting will take place in Basel.
- 2009-01-12 : I have launched a BitTorrent tracker to reduce our bandwith usage. I hope it will be used. Metalink files were updated.
- 2008-12-17 : Linterweb has stopped his collaboration with Kiwix. As Linterweb did not publish the 0.7 source code, this version will not be recognized as a standard Kiwix release and will neither be supported. If you want more information concerning 0.7 and the live corpus, please contact Linterweb.
- 2008-12-10 : Linterweb has open OpenWebContent.org to help identify free web contents for Kiwix.
- 2008-11-30 : New permissions of the wiki : everybody with an account can write on it!
- 2008-11-30 : A first beta release of our next 0.7 release was released here. Please test it and make a report.
- 2008-09-15 : The English WP1 project has finished its 0.7 selection of almost 30.000 articles. Kiwix will before the end of the year published them using its tools and software.
- 2008-08-23 : New perl script to optimize contents size (html, jpeg, png and gif ) in a directory.
- 2008-06-18 : A web gateway to our IRC channel has been installed. Visit us!
- 2008-06-01 : The French Ubuntu community has released for the second time an offline version of their documentation using kiwix.
- 2008-05-01 : First release of mirrorMediawikiPages.pl, a perl script allowing to easily mirror whole pages (with text&media dependences) between 2 Mediawikis.
- 2007-01-11 : Kiwix and the project Moulinwiki will collaborate.
- 2007-03-01 : v0.5 was released with a collection of 2000 articles of the English Wikipedia. Get it !
Contact
- Report a bug or make a feature request
- Email: kiwix-developer (at) lists.sourceforge.net or kelson (at) kiwix.org
- IRC: #kiwix on irc.freenode.net join or use web interface
- SVN: to be kept informed per email about SVN commits, kiwix-svn (at) lists.sourceforge.net.


