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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 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)], which means you are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the content if you want to make commercial use of them. | '''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 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)], which means you are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the content if you want to make commercial use of them. | ||
==Developers== | ==Developers== | ||
* Emmanuel Engelhart (kelson ''[at]'' kiwix.org) | * Emmanuel Engelhart (kelson ''[at]'' kiwix.org) | ||
* Guillaume Duhamel (gduhamel ''[at]'' linterweb.com) | * Guillaume Duhamel (gduhamel ''[at]'' linterweb.com) | ||
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* Wilfredo Rodriguez (wilfredor ''[at]'' kiwix.org) | * Wilfredo Rodriguez (wilfredor ''[at]'' kiwix.org) | ||
== Sponsors and partners == | == Sponsors and partners == | ||
* [http://wikimediafoundation.org Wikimedia Foundation] | * [http://wikimediafoundation.org Wikimedia Foundation] | ||
* [http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Kiwix Wikimedia Italia] | * [http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Kiwix Wikimedia Italia] | ||
Revision as of 11:35, 29 August 2013
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 OpenZIM project. The Kiwix project is supported by the non-profit Wikimedia foundation and powered by the MediaWiki software. All content of Kiwix website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0), which means you are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the content if you want to make commercial use of them.
Developers
- Emmanuel Engelhart (kelson [at] kiwix.org)
- Guillaume Duhamel (gduhamel [at] linterweb.com)
- Fabien Coulon (fcoulon [at] linterweb.com)
- Renaud Gaudin (reg [at] kiwix.org)
- Wilfredo Rodriguez (wilfredor [at] kiwix.org)
Sponsors and partners
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikimedia Italia
- Agence Universitaire Francophone
- Framasoft
- Institut français
- Wikimedia CH
- Wikimedia France