One Simple Tool is Transforming Schools in Ghana

2023, Desktop, Use case

“Have you wondered how many people will spend 24.44% of their income on 1G of data? Your guess is as good as mine.” In 2016, the United Nations declared internet access a human right, yet in Africa, in 2023, there remains a significant gap in connectivity. Despite the...

What is the size of Wikipedia?

2022, Content

The short answer is : 20 GB (give or take). This is also the wrong answer, because all you would have there would be a long, long, unformatted text file – no images, hyperlinks, or even section headers. Great for machine-learning (if that), but little else. If...

Look at us! We took Stack Overflow offline

2022, Content

We are happy to announce the official release of a brand new, revamped version of Stack Overflow offline! Thanks to the folks at Stack Exchange, we’ve been able to fully revamp our Stack Overflow-to-Kiwix (Sotoki) scraper and will continue providing not only the...

Be our next library manager

2022, Content

The world is our oyster, and we need someone sharp as a knife to help us further open it. Kiwix is looking for a Library Content Manager to help us manage our every-growing library. This is only a part-time position at the moment, but on the plus side it is fully...

Announcing: 50k DAI prize to make Wikipedia unstoppable

2022, General

The Swarm Association is announcing a 50,000 DAI “Wikipedia on Swarm ”prize (paid in BZZ) for a solution that observes a Wikipedia offline archive and uploads it to the Swarm network. The goal is to allow for Wikipedia in any language to be easily uploaded to the...