Comment by myself248
7 months ago
You can also get it as a .zim file for easy offline browsing with Kiwix.
The whole enchilada: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_ma...
Other versions: https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia
It is useful software for offline use and emergencies. For those who may not know, apart from wikis, they also offer offline documentation(Linux distros like ArchWiki, libraries, etc.), medical libraries(Medicine Plus, etc.), and Stack Exchange.
Will the 2025 zim be available as well?
Main Kiwix dev in charge of scrapers (tools to create ZIM files, even if we do not really scrape technically speaking) here.
We are working hard toward upgrading the Wikipedia ZIMs, but it is far from being an easy feat. I'm mostly solo on this, and far from dedicating 100% of my time to this, so it does not move very fast. We are quite close to being able to reach the goal however, probably only a matter of weeks now.
Bonus: the tool will now get pretty good at making a ZIM of any Mediawiki, not only Wikimedia ones, we expect for instance to work on all Fandom wikis somewhere this year since there is significant knowledge over there.
Hey, thank you for what you do! Kiwix was the first project that made me feel like using Github Sponsors to support it; your work is wrapped into countless other educational projects like IIAB.
Is there any specific help you need, or where could folks get involved if they wanted to?
Thank you for your answer and the hard work!
I am wondering the same thing. I have Jan 2021, Jan 2024... I want to keep a snapshot each year and I wonder why a new one hasn't been generated.
I haven't looked for documentation on creating my own zim file.
I looked into it once, I think the script or system that built the larger dumps broke and no one fixed it. I started working on it but other stuff got in the way.
I tried this kiwix the other day, it has like a 300mb "essentials" text version that was interesting.
This comment was downvoted and instead, it'd better merit a comment as to "why" it wasn't contributing to the discussion?
> I tried this kiwix the other day, it has like a 300mb "essentials" text version that was interesting.
I didn't downvote the comment, but it's not an incredibly deep contribution, is it?
If you really wish to contribute, perhaps you can say what the "'essentials' text version" contained and why you found it interesting?