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{{Infobox software
| name = Kiwix
| logo = Kiwix logo.svg
| screenshot = Kiwix for Android scr1.png
| caption = Kiwix on an [[Android (operating system)|Android]]-powered [[tablet computer|tablet]]
| developer = Emmanuel Engelhart, Renaud Gaudin
| released = 
| discontinued =
| ver layout = stacked
| latest release version = {{Multiple releases
|branch1 = Android
|version1 = 2.2
|date1 = {{start date and age|2017|02|28}}<ref name=sourceforge/>

|branch2 = iOS
|version2 = 1.8.1
|date2 = {{start date and age|2017|04|17}}<ref>[http://ios.kiwix.org Kiwix iTunes page]</ref>
}}
| latest preview version = {{Multiple releases
|branch1 = Desktop
|version1 = 0.9
|date1 = {{start date and age|2014|11|01}}<ref name=sourceforge/>

|branch2 = [[Universal Windows Platform|UWP]]
|version2 = 0.9.9.7
|date2 = {{start date and age|2018|09|14}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9P8SLZ4J979J |title=Kiwix JS |work=[[Windows Store]] |publisher=[[Microsoft]]}}</ref>
}}
| latest preview date =
| operating system = [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[iOS]], [[Windows]], [[macOS]], [[Linux]], [[Windows 10 Mobile]]
| size = {{Plainlist|
* Desktop: {{nowrap|30.6 [[Megabyte|MB]] – 106 MB}}<ref name=sourceforge/>
* Android: {{nowrap|6.2 MB}}
* iOS: {{nowrap|48.3 MB}}
* UWP: {{nowrap|4.2 MB}}
}}
| language count = 100
| language footnote = <ref name=sourceforge/>
| language = 
| genre =
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPLv3]]
}}
[[File:Kiwix screenshot.png|thumb|Kiwix on [[MacOS]]]]
[[File:kiwix.jpg|thumb|Kiwix on [[Linux]]]]
'''Kiwix''' is a [[free and open-source]] offline web browser created by Emmanuel Engelhart and Renaud Gaudin in 2007.<ref name="sutherland2014" /> It was first launched to allow offline access to [[Wikipedia]], but has since expanded to include other projects from the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] as well as [[public domain]] texts from the [[Project Gutenberg]]. Available in more than 100 languages, Kiwix has been included in several high-profile projects, from smuggling operations in [[North Korea]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/03/north-korea/|title=The plot to free North Korea with smuggled episodes of "Friends"|access-date=27 April 2016}}</ref> and encyclopedic access in [[Cuba]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ecured.cubava.cu/2017/06/12/como-utilizar-kiwix-como-servidor-local/|title=¿Cómo utilizar Kiwix como servidor local?|access-date=3 July 2017}}</ref> to Google Impact Challenge's recipient [[Bibliothèques Sans Frontières]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Les Lauréats du Google Impact Challenge|access-date=27 April 2016|url=http://www.tntv.pf/Les-laureats-du-Google-Impact-Challenge_a8169.html}}</ref>

== History ==
Founder Emmanuel Engelhart sees Wikipedia as a [[common good]], saying “The contents of Wikipedia should be available for everyone! Even without Internet access. This is why I have launched the Kiwix project.”<ref name="sutherland2014" />

After becoming a Wikipedia editor in 2004, Emmanuel Engelhart became interested in developing offline versions of Wikipedia. A [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|project to make a Wikipedia CD]], initiated in 2003, was a trigger for the project.<ref name="sutherland2014">Joe Sutherland: ''[//blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/12/emmanuel-engelhart-inventor-of-kiwix/ Emmanuel Engelhart, Inventor of Kiwix: the Offline Wikipedia Browser]''. In: Wikimedia Blog. 12. September 2014. Accessed on 26 November 2014.</ref>

In 2012 Kiwix won a grant from Wikimedia France to build kiwix-plug, which was deployed in universities in eleven countries in the [[Afripedia Project]],<ref>[http://www.citazine.fr/article/afripedia-wikipedia-pour-afrique-francophone Citazine article on Afripedia (in French)]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.afrik.com/article25968.html|title=Afripédia : un projet de promotion de Wikipédia en Afrique|last=Traoré|first=Kardiatou|website=www.afrik.com|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref> and in February 2013 Kiwix won [[SourceForge]]'s Project of the Month award,<ref name="Slashdot.org">{{cite web|url=http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/kiwix-aims-to-spread-wikipedias-reach/ |title=Kiwix Aims to spread Wikipedia's Reach |publisher=Slashdot.org |date=2013-02-04 |accessdate=2013-07-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302024146/http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/kiwix-aims-to-spread-wikipedias-reach/ |archivedate=2013-03-02 |df= }}</ref> - and an Open Source Award in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.netzwoche.ch/News/2015/10/29/OSS-Awards-kueren-die-innovativsten-Schweizer-Open-Source-Projekte.aspx||title=OSS Awards küren Schweizer Open-Source-Projekte|publisher=Netzwoche|accessdate =2015-12-08}}</ref>

The '''incompatibility''' list includes [[iPhone OS 1]], [[iPhone OS 2]], [[iPhone OS 3]], [[iOS 4]], [[iOS 5]], [[iOS 6]], [[iOS 7]], [[iOS 8]] and is expected to continue throughout the product line on a [[chronological]] basis.<ref>https://ibb.co/ib5hOc</ref>

== Description ==
The software is designed as an offline reader for web content. It is used on computers without an internet connection, computers with a slow or expensive connection, and to avoid censorship. It can also be used while travelling (e.g. on a plane or train).

[[File:Kiwix 0.9 rc1 library fr screenshot.png|thumb|left|Downloading new content files on an early version of Kiwix]]

Users first download Kiwix, then download content for offline viewing with Kiwix (see picture). Compression saves disk space and bandwidth. All of English-language Wikipedia, with pictures, fits on a USB stick (54 GB as of May 2016, or 16 GB with no pictures).<ref name="Slashdot.org"/><ref name="Content in all languages - Kiwix">{{Cite web|url=http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages|title=Content in all languages - Kiwix|website=www.kiwix.org|access-date=2016-08-08}}</ref>

All content files are [[Data compression|compressed]] in [[ZIM (file format)|ZIM format]], which makes them smaller, but leaves them easy to index, search, and selectively decompress.

The ZIM files are then opened with Kiwix, which looks and behaves like a web browser. Kiwix offers full text search, tabbed navigation and the option to export articles to PDF and HTML.<ref name=sourceforge>{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/ |title=Kiwix |publisher=[[SourceForge]] |accessdate=22 March 2012}}</ref>

There is an HTTP server version called '''kiwix-serve'''; this allows a computer to host Kiwix content, and make it available to other computers on a network.<ref>[http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-serve Kiwix-serve]</ref> The other computers see an ordinary website. '''kiwix-plug''' is a version for plug computers<ref name="Slashdot.org"/> which is often used to provide a [[Server (computing)|wifi server]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-plug|title=Kiwix-plug - Kiwix|website=www.kiwix.org|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>

Kiwix uses the deprecated [[XULRunner|Mozilla framework]] localised on [[Translatewiki.net]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Kiwix|title=Translating:Kiwix - translatewiki.net|website=translatewiki.net|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref> but plans to replace it.<ref name="Linux Packaging project - Kiwix">{{Cite web|url=http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Linux_Packaging_project|title=Linux Packaging project - Kiwix|website=www.kiwix.org|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>

== Available content ==
[[File:The Goodall girls using Kiwix aboard the Kyrimba.JPG|thumb|left|Reading Wikipedia through Kiwix on a boat in the [[South Pacific Ocean|South Pacific]]<ref>[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/ Sailing the South Pacific]</ref>]]

A list of content available on Kiwix is available for download, including language-specific sublists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages|title=Content in all languages - Kiwix|website=www.kiwix.org|language=en|access-date=2017-06-09}}</ref> Content can be loaded through Kiwix itself.
Since 2014, most Wikipedia versions are available for download in various different languages.<ref name="Content in all languages - Kiwix"/> For English Wikipedia, a full version containing pictures as well as alternative version containing text only can be downloaded from the archive. This allows users to save disk space and bandwidth while downloading. The servers are updated every two to ten months, depending on the size of the file. For English Wikipedia, the update frequency is thus substantially lower than the [[bzip2]] database downloads by the Wikimedia Foundation, which are updated twice a month.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#English-language_Wikipedia|title=English-language Wikipedia|website=Wikipedia|accessdate=2017-11-17}}</ref>{{Better source|reason=per WP:CIRCULAR|date=February 2018}}

Besides Wikipedia, content from the [[Wikimedia foundation]] such as [[Wikisource]], [[Wikiquote]], [[Wikivoyage]], [[Wikibooks]] and [[Wikiversity]] are available for offline viewing in various different languages.<ref>[http://download.kiwix.org/zim/ Zim archive for Kiwix]</ref>

In November 2014 a ZIM version of all [[public domain|open texts]] forming part of [[Project Gutenberg]] was made available.<ref>Emmanuel Engelhart: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikisource-l/2014-November/002139.html ''50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline''.] In: [[Wikisource]]-l-Mailinglist. 19. November 2014. Accessed on 26 November 2014.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.ch/2014/11/wikimedia-project-gutenberg-sum-of-all.html|title=Words and what not: #Wikimedia & Project #Gutenberg - the sum of all knowledge|website=ultimategerardm.blogspot.ch|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>

Besides [[public domain]] content, works licensed under a [[Creative Commons]] [[Creative Commons license|license]] are available for download. For example, offline versions of the [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]] [[wiki]] containing user documentation for the Ubuntu operating system,<ref>''[http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Wiki/Hilfsmittel#Kiwix Ubuntuusers Hilfsmittel]''</ref> ZIM editions of [[TED (conference)|TED conference]] talks<ref>[http://download.kiwix.org/zim/ted/ Kiwix archive for TED]</ref> and videos from [[Crash Course (YouTube)|Crash Course]] are available in the Kiwix archive as ZIM file formats.<ref>[http://download.kiwix.org/zim/other/ Kiwix archive for additional content]</ref>

== Deployments ==
Kiwix can be installed on a desktop computer as a stand-alone program, installed on a tablet or smartphone, or can create its own [[WLAN]] environment from a Raspberry plug.
[[File:Carte localisation Afripédia hors-ligne.png|thumb|Locations of 13 universities where Kiwix was deployed as part of the [[Afripedia Project]]]]

As a software development project, Kiwix itself is not directly involved in deployment projects. However, third party organisations do use the software as a component of their own projects. Examples include:

* Universities and libraries that can't afford broadband Internet access.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Main_Page|title=Main Page - Kiwix|website=www.kiwix.org|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>
** The [[Afripedia Project]] set up kiwix servers in French-speaking universities (some of them with no Internet access) in 11 African countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/24/afripedia-project-increasing-off-line-access-to-wikipedia-in-africa/|title=Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa|website=Wikimedia blog|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>
* Schools<ref>{{cite web|url=http://asri-education.org/asriedu-logitheque-kiwix |title=(fr) ASRI Education may 2013 |language=fr |publisher=Asri-education.org |date= |accessdate=2013-07-10}}</ref> in [[developing countries]], where access to the internet is difficult or too expensive.<ref name="Slashdot.org" />
** Kiwix is installed on the computers used for the [[One Laptop per Child]] project.<ref name="sutherland2014" />
** Kiwix has been installed on [[Raspberry Pi]]s for use in schools with no electricity in Tanzania<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/17/raspberry-pi-tanzania-school/|title=Raspberry Pi in Masekelo: Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity|website=Wikimedia blog|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref> by the Tanzania Development Trust.
** Kiwix was installed on tablets in schools in [[Mali]] in the MALebooks project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/14/e-readers-in-mali/|title=Children in Mali can now read Wikipedia offline, thanks to MALebooks e-readers|website=Wikimedia blog|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>
** Kiwix is being used by school and university teachers, as well as students, in [[Senegal]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/September_2016/West_African_schools_will_test_Kiwix,_the_offline_Wikipedia_reader|title=West African schools will test Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader|website=Wikimedia outreach education newsletter|date=2016-08-31|access-date=2017-06-11}}</ref>
** Kiwix is deployed in Benin during teacher training seminars run by Zedaga,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://zedaga.ch/nos-partenaires/soutiens-individuels/|title=Kiwix is mentioned on the thank-you page|website=Zedaga|language=French|access-date=2017-06-11}}</ref> a Swiss NGO specialized in education.
** The ''[[Orange S.A.|Fondation Orange]]'' has used ''kiwix-serve'' in its own technological knowledge product they have deployed in [[Africa]].<ref>[http://www.fondationorange.com/le-programme-ecoles-numeriques Fondation Orange: le programme "écoles numériques"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405200750/http://www.fondationorange.com/le-programme-ecoles-numeriques |date=2015-04-05 }}</ref>
** A [[SOS Children's Villages UK#Wikipedia for Schools|special version]] for the organisation [[SOS Children's Villages]] was developed, initially for developing countries, but it is also used in the developed world.
* At sea and in other remote areas.<ref name="Slashdot.org" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/|title=Sailing the South Pacific with a copy of Wikipedia on board: The Goodall Family|website=Wikimedia blog|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>
** Aboard ship in Antarctic waters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/10/hans-oleander-offline-wikipedia-guide-tours-bottom-earth/|title=Hans Oleander: Using offline Wikipedia to guide tours at the bottom of the Earth|website=Wikimedia blog|access-date=2017-06-11}}</ref>
** Kiwix is used by the Senegalese Navy in their patrol ships<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gazetekarinca.com/2017/05/kiwixle-wikipediaya-ulasmak-hala-mumkun/|title=Kiwix’le Wikipedia’ya ulaşmak hala mümkün|website=gazetekarinca.com|date=2017-05-05|access-date=2016-03-08|language=Turc}}</ref>
** Kiwix is included in Navigatrix, a Linux distribution for people on boats<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://navigatrix.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=639|title=Navigatrix.net - A Voyager's Companion|website=navigatrix.net|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://yourcruisingeditor.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/navigatrix-the-first-linux-distribution-for-cruisers/|title=Navigatrix – the first Linux distribution for cruisers|website=Your Cruising Editor|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>
* On a train or plane.<ref name="Slashdot.org" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://a3nm.net/blog/kiwix.html|title=A local copy of Wikipedia with Kiwix - a3nm's blog|last=Amarilli|first=Antoine|website=a3nm.net|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>
* In European and US prison education programs.<ref name="Slashdot.org" />

===Package managers and app stores===
[[File:Kiwix page view.jpg|thumb|Wikipedia medical app on smartphone]]
Kiwix was formerly available in the native [[package manager]]s of some Linux distributions. However, Kiwix is currently not available in most package databases, due to [[XULRunner]], a program on which Kiwix depends, being [[deprecated]] by [[Mozilla]] and removed from the package databases.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Debian|title=Debian - Kiwix|website=www.kiwix.org|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref> Kiwix is available in the [[Sugar (software)|Sugar]] and [[ArchLinux]] [[Linux distributions]]. It is also available on Android.

Kiwix is available in the Microsoft Store<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9P8SLZ4J979J|title=Get Kiwix JS - Microsoft Store|website=Microsoft Store Online|access-date=2018-02-12}}</ref>, on GooglePlay<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile|title=Kiwix, Wikipedia offline - Android Apps on Google Play|website=play.google.com|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref> and iTunes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563?mt=8|title=Kiwix on the App Store|website=App Store|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref> Since 2015, a series of "customized apps" have also been released, of which medical Wikipedia and [[PhET]] simulations are the two largest.

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==See also==
* [[Internet-in-a-Box]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
* {{official website|http://www.kiwix.org/}}
* {{SourceForge|kiwix}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw9nHXSWZTo Explanation of Kiwix from [[Wikimania 2013]]]
* [https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/kiwix/ Kiwix stories on the Wikimedia Blog]
{{Wikipedia}}

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