Then, go to the Kiwix site, download the software, and decompress the archive. The first thing that you need is a Raspberry Pi or a spare computer to act as a server. This will let you create an entirely self-hosted “end of the world” wiki! But if you want to trade knowledge for a good meal, fear not! Kiwix-serve, one of the tools in the suite of utilities available with the project, can actually serve those pages over http. So sure, you can use it as a browser for yourself.
#WHAT IS KIWIX SOFTWARE#
The software as well as the content are fully open-source and free to use and share. People with no or limited internet access can enjoy the same browsing experience as anyone else. Kiwix then acts like a regular browser, except that it reads these local copies.
Zim files are small enough that they can be stored on users’ mobile phones, computers or small, inexpensive Hotspot. We can make highly compressed copies of entire websites that each fit into a single (.zim) file. It is possible to download dumped archives of most of these sites, import them, and have a working mirror of the good stuff (assuming you’ve got solar panels and a Raspberry Pi.) Kiwix can help you do that! It’s an offline reader for websites that includes popular resources such as Wikipedia, TED, stackexchange, and more. So what is someone to do when they need the internet, but there is no internet available? That’s a shame because those resources could really help in a pinch, right? Being able to know which plants are dangerous, which plants are edible, and which can be used to make medicine, will be important. Well, for starters, there’s no Wikipedia, and there’s no TED.