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I second Kiwix. I found out about it not too long ago on the topic of portable Wikipedia readers. It really stands out as the best software part of such a solut
by daneel_w 4y ago
I second Kiwix. I found out about it not too long ago on the topic of portable Wikipedia readers. It really stands out as the best software part of such a solution.
- 23B1 4y agoI third Kiwix. Immensely useful when I was deployed without internet.
- kragen 4y agoThat sounds interesting, what was the context?
- 23B1 4y agoHi sorry for the delayed reply, yes I was military and in the early days of Iraq/Afghanistan we didn't have much access to the internet so I brought it with me.
- danuker 4y agoMy guess is military.
- dtgriscom 4y ago
- ivansavz 4y agoLibrary or school in a remote village. There are computers (usually old computers), there might even be a LAN of some sort, but no internet (or very slow internet). In those cases having local access to Wikipedia (and not necessarily just en; Kiwix has archives for all the languages) can be a great learning resource and reference.
- kragen 4y agoDo you know 23B1? If not, probably you posted a reply to the wrong comment.
- vmilner 4y agoI used kiwix Wikipedia for a Polish friend in the Uk who couldn’t afford reliable internet access and was using public library computers. I found the English edition with images was too large for him, but the Polish edition was fine. Ideally I’d have liked a simple update system (Git like?) which he could have run at the library occasionally.