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'''Kiwix''' is a free program used to view Wikipedia offline and without using Internet. Kiwix use the ZIM file format, which is an open and standardized file format to store Wiki content efficiently for offline usage and was developed by [http://openzim.org/ OpenZIM] project. The Kiwix project is supported by the non-profit [http://www.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia foundation] and powered by the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software. All content of Kiwix website is licensed under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)].<br />
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== Sponsors and partners ==<br />
* [http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Kiwix Wikimedia Italia]<br />
* Agence Universitaire Francophone<br />
* Framasoft<br />
* Institut français<br />
* Wikimedia CH<br />
* Wikimedia Foundation<br />
* Wikimedia France</div>Laurentiushttps://wiki.kiwix.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3953Main Page2011-07-26T16:18:02Z<p>Laurentius: updated source download url</p>
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'''Kiwix''' is an offline reader for Web content. It's especially thought to make Wikipedia available offline (see [[features]]). This is done by reading the content of the project stored in a file format ZIM, a high compressed open format with additional meta-data.<br />
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Kiwix is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software free software] ([https://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kiwix/moulinkiwix/COPYING GPL3]), that means you can freely copy, modify and spread it.<br />
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== News ==<br />
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* 2011-01-30 : The [http://www.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation] [http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/update-on-offline-wikimedia-projects/ supports now actively] the Kiwix and openZIM projects.<br />
* 2011-01-11 : Kiwix provides, again after two years, an up to date version of Kiwix for MacOSX (intel).<br />
* 2010-07-23 : Kiwix has now its own PPA (Personal Package Archive) for Ubuntu : https://launchpad.net/~kiwixteam/+archive/ppa<br />
* 2010-04-22 : Have released Kiwix 0.9 alpha1. This version benefits of a lot of improvements comparing to the 0.8. It especially runs (again) on MS Windows. Here is the [http://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kiwix/moulinkiwix/CHANGELOG full CHANGELOG]. You may downloaded here the '''[http://download.kiwix.org/portable/wikipedia_en_wp1.zip Windows version with the WP1 EN 0.7 30.000 Wikipedia articles]'''.<br />
* 2010-03-28 : Kiwix compiles again under Windows... but this time the process is [http://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kiwix/moulinkiwix/COMPILE really simple and documented].<br />
* 2010-02-15 : I have released the final 0.8 version. I wasn't been working on it since months and no bugs were reported in the last Release Candidate. See you soon with the first 0.9 alpha.<br />
* 2010-01-23 : First version in the SVN of [[kiwix-serve]], an HTTP server able to serve a ZIM file and using the Kiwix search engine - [http://library.kiwix.org:4202/ demo].<br />
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==Downloads==<br />
===Kiwix reader===<br />
You can try [[Compile Kiwix|compiling Kiwix]] for yourself. The application source code can be downloaded [https://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/kiwix-0.9-beta1-src.tar.bz2/download &dArr; here].<br />
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===Wikipedia files===<br />
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==Contact==<br />
* [http://reportabug.kiwix.org Report a bug] or [http://requestafeature.kiwix.org request a feature].<br />
* Email: kiwix-developer (at) lists.sourceforge.net or kelson (at) kiwix.org<br />
* Jabber: kelson (at) kiwix.org<br />
* IRC: #kiwix on irc.freenode.net [irc://irc.freenode.net/kiwix join] or [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#kiwix use web interface]<br />
* SVN: to be kept informed per email about SVN commits, kiwix-svn (at) lists.sourceforge.net.</div>Laurentius