iiab VS kiwix-tools

Use a tool like Internet-in-a-box and keep a "local" version of tons of very useful stuff like Wikipedia and Maps.

Internet-in-a-box is a Free, Open source offline internet tool. Its a step up from having an offline wikipedia copy, it has a lot of Ebooks, and a offline version of Khan academedy youtube videos, and more etc

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IMO the best use case is https://internet-in-a-box.org/. You download a bunch of stuff like Wikipedia, videos, books, etc, and any device with WiFi can access them. Much better than relying on something like a laptop or old phone with all of these resources on them. Get a couple of Raspberry Pi's and some SD cards and you can clone them all and have lots of backups. They are small and use little power so you can hide them in places that can't easily be found.

this is awesome, but for those of us that don't feel like spending ~$1200... may I suggest internet in a box

Not a hard copy, but unless you’re worried about something destroying all electronics, you can make an offline library with Internet in a box.

Check out https://internet-in-a-box.org

You're saying the fix is merged in https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools? I looked at the commit history after 3.4.0 and didn't see anything relevant to this. Did I miss it, or is there somewhere else I should be looking?

Not 7Zip, but there are Kiwix Tools that allow you to explore the ZIIM, and of course various readers for different Operating Systems that render article HTML

u/RedditNoobie777, the library is served by a piece of software called Kiwix Serve, and issues with it (which might include what it displays, what it should display) are on this GitHub: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools/issues . I think before you could help categorize, it would be necessary for the software to be updated to display information like whether an archive is mini or maxi, and the date of the archive. There is an issue for the date: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools/issues/551 . Displaying the filename on the tile would be a quick solution, as it currently has all the information.

Have you checked https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools/issues ?

thanks for the link. I didn't find this yet but some kiwix-serve repository which I can't find now anymore. Found some related issues there I.e. https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools/issues/518 They mention an option allowing to set the url-path, I left a question there if it was possible to do so with the docker image as well.

Kiwix is an offline reader that allows users to browse entire copies of Wikipedia (ca. 83Gb for the whole thing, incl. images), StackExchange (new release coming up soon), the Gutenberg project, etc. stored locally. The project is fully FOSS (here's the git repo) and the subreddit is r/Kiwix.

I rummaged a bit and found a super old feature request on Sourceforge specifically asking for compatibility with non-JS browsers, including lynx. That would be for Kiwix-serve (which you can find here)

I setup an offline version using Kiwix-serve Tools. Essentially you: Get up to speed here: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-serve Download for example 'wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2021-03.zim' from Here: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/ en = English - all_maxi = all content. Setup a web server using the kiwix-tools for example 'kiwix-tools_win-i686-3.1.2.zip' from here: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-tools/