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Kiwix
Sign in to savealt=Kiwix, running on an Android tablet|thumb|272x272px|Kiwix app, running on an Android tablet Kiwix is a free and open-source offline web browser created by Emmanuel Engelhart and Renaud Gaudin in 2007. It was first launched to enable offline access to Wikipedia, but has since expanded to include other projects from the Wikimedia Foundation, public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, many of the Stack Exchange sites, and many other resources. Available in more than 100 languages, Kiwix has been included in several high-profile projects, from smuggling operations in North Korea to Googl
Kiwix is a free, open-source software application that lets people access websites and online content without an internet connection, originally created to provide offline access to Wikipedia. It has become widely used in places with limited internet access and has expanded to include many other resources beyond Wikipedia, such as educational materials and reference texts.
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Vinony's link graph records 196 inbound references to Kiwix, and connects out to Wikimedia Foundation, Ubuntu and internet access.
It sits within the topics 2010 software, Book censorship and Cross-platform free software.
Vinony links it to 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Kiwix
- Software.logo
- class=skin-invert|200px|alt=Kiwix logo
- Software.screenshot
- Kiwix Desktop 2.3.1.png
- Software.caption
- Kiwix 2.3.1 running on Windows 11
- Software.ver layout
- stacked
- Software.programming language
- C++ (desktop), Kotlin (Android), Swift (iOS, macOS), JavaScript (browser, Electron, UWP)
- Software.operating system
- Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, Windows 10 Mobile, Ubuntu Touch
- Software.language count
- 100
- Software.license
- GPLv3
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Wikidata facts
- Platform
- ARM architecture
- Official website
- kiwix.org/en
- Has use
- offline reader
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- operating system
- Linux
- source code repository URL
- github.com/kiwix
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.libera.chat/#kiwix
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
- language of work or name
- multiple languages
- permanent duplicated item
- Wikipedia:Kiwix
- Commons category
- Kiwix
- social media followers
- 2612
- programmed in
- Swift
- GUI toolkit or framework
- Qt
- software version identifier
- 2.3.1
- inception
- 2006-00-00
- publication date
- 2006-00-00
- readable file format
- ZIM
- translation contribution URL
- translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Kiwix
- web feed URL
- kiwix.org/en/feed
- official wiki URL
- wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Main_Page
- official blog URL
- kiwix.org/en/blog
- terms of service URL
- kiwix.org/en/terms-condition
- privacy policy URL
- kiwix.org/en/privacy-policy
- impressum URL
- kiwix.org/en/imprint
- contact page URL
- kiwix.org/en/contact-us
- service status information URL
- status.kiwix.org
- member of
- Nitra
Sources (14)
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Description
- Available content
- Historic Wikipedia articles selection releases
- Deployments
- Package managers and app stores
- See also
- Notes and references
- Notes
- References
- External links
alt=Kiwix, running on an Android tablet|thumb|272x272px|Kiwix app, running on an Android tablet Kiwix is a free and open-source offline web browser created by Emmanuel Engelhart and Renaud Gaudin in 2007. It was first launched to enable offline access to Wikipedia, but has since expanded to include other projects from the Wikimedia Foundation, public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, many of the Stack Exchange sites, and many other resources. Available in more than 100 languages, Kiwix has been included in several high-profile projects, from smuggling operations in North Korea to Google Impact Challenge's recipient Bibliothèques Sans Frontières.
== 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."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiwix” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.