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…
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
It has been reported that the Russian government has threatened to block access to Wikipedia for documenting narratives that do not agree with the official position of the Russian government. One of the anti-censorship strategies I've been working on is Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader (and plenty of other content…
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
(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…
Roughly 3 years since I started working on it, @kiwix is set to reenter #debian pending ftp-master review! https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/kiwix_2.0.4-1.htmlProper blog post to follow if/once it's accepted.
Took me a while, but libkiwix9 is now waiting in Debian's NEW queue: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libkiwix_9.2.2+dfsg-1.htmlAlso, hopefully going to have another cool announcement in the future, still waiting on a PR to be merged :)
It's been a relatively productive year for the packaging of Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader, in Debian. My minimum expectations for the Buster release scheduled in mid-2019 are that all necessary C/C++ libraries to build the latest versions of Kiwix are in Debian. libzim is at v4.0.4, and basically ready…
