Posts tagged: kiwix

Kiwix in Debian, 2022 update

Kiwix is an offline content reader, best known for distributing copies of Wikipedia. I have been maintaining it in Debian since 2017. This year most of the work has been keeping all the packages up to date in anticipation of next year's Debian 12 Bookworm release, including several transitions for…

Linked from LWN

Uh very cool, today's LWN article quoted and linked my blog post about Kiwix and Russian Wikipedia! https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/902463/0735202cb9eda4e2/ https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/03/15/how-to-mirror-the-russian-wikipedia-with-debian-and-kiwix.html

New stats from Kiwix

Wow, some new stats from @kiwix: a fifty-fold increase in traffic from Russia, which now accounts for 40% of new downloads!Source: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&type=revision&diff=22975552&oldid=22974473

Kiwix returns in Debian Bullseye

(This is my belated #newindebianbullseye post.) The latest version of the Debian distro, 11.0 aka Bullseye, was released last week and after a long absence, includes Kiwix! Previously in Debian 10/Buster, we only had the underlying C/C++ libraries available. If you're not familiar with it, Kiwix is an offline content…