New WikiMed app for Linux and Windows v2.4.8

2023, Kiwix JS, Release notes

WikiMed by Kiwix is now at v2.4.8. The headline feature is a new, modern bundling system which makes a smaller, faster core app with better memory management, while still supporting the same wide range of modern and legacy browsers. The packages contain the March 2023...

Our docker images are on now GHCR.io

2023, General, Release notes

We have been pushing our images to both docker.io and ghcr.io for a good while now (2y+). Following the recent (March 2023) announcement, re-announcement then cancellation announcement, we have decided to only publish our images to ghcr.io for the foreseeable future....

We’re hiring! Senior Python developer wanted

2023, General

Kiwix is the leading offline solution for people who cannot access internet content – be it because of data cost, low connectivity, or outright censorship. It is free, and open-source. Simply put, our software copies the entirety of websites that can then be...
One Simple Tool is Transforming Schools in Ghana

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...

Turn your phone into an encyclopedia of fixing things

2022, Content

Phone is broken? Camera is broken? Your car as well? Then you can either, you know, buy a new one of each or simply try and fix them. And the best resource for that is probably iFixit – a global community of people helping each other repair things. Years ago,...