kiwix-apple
Kiwix for iOS & macOS (by kiwix)
mwoffliner
Mediawiki scraper: all your wiki articles in one highly compressed ZIM file (by openzim)
| kiwix-apple | mwoffliner | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 7 | |
| 563 | 326 | |
| 5.9% | 5.2% | |
| 9.8 | 9.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Swift | TypeScript | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kiwix-apple
Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwix-apple.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-20.
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Latest Wikipedia zim dump (97 GB) is available for download
No need to search, it's in the App Store. Or grab the source if you're so inclined: https://github.com/kiwix/apple
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Kiwix Apple developer is looking for iOS / macOS beta testers
See something, need something, thought of something? Open a ticket at https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues
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Kiwix Crashing on Mac OSX when searching file
Yeah it's a known and recurring issue. https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues
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Are kiwix and .zim files safe?
Every file you download from library.kiwix.org has a public SHA256 key so you can check it has not been tampered with. The source code is also entirely open so you can rummage through it and see if there's anything wrong with it.
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applescript support for desktop app?
This being said, there's a lone (and awesome!) volunteer working on that one so feel free to open tickets on https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues (or support.kiwix.org if you just feel like he needs more chocolates)
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A curated list of Open Source example iOS apps developed in Swift
Kiwix Apple - iOS and macOS implementation of Kiwix.
mwoffliner
Posts with mentions or reviews of mwoffliner.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.
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Wiktionary doesn’t support tables
You can also directly open a ticket at https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues with as much info as possible so we can look into it (zim name, language, date, article name, etc.)
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Recent Wiktionary ZIM files don't show a search bar
Welp yes, that's a bug (likely a regression from a recent update). Can you please open a ticket at https://github.com/openzim/zim-requests/issues (we might move it later on but that's as good a starting place as can be).
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Latest Wikipedia zim dump (97 GB) is available for download
https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues/1655 Unfortunate that there's no way to convert the easiest way to make proper dumps of wikis (ArchiveTeam's wikiteam-tools) to Kiwix Zims. That would allow for all sorts of niche information to be preserved in a readable way.
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What's the "best" way to make your own ZIMs (in docker)?
I'm looking at making my own ZIM though not sure the best way to go about it. I've seen zimit on Github and the mwoffliner on Github too.
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Self made ZIM-File only contains [object object]
Generally speaking, I'd advise opening a ticket on https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues
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Creating ZIM files for Kiwix by myself?
r/kiwix would be the place to ask, but at the end of the day it all comes down to heading out to openzim.org (or the corresponding github repo) and figuring it out. You can either grab zimit and run it locally, or access all the libraries that will help you build your own scraper (Nautilus will assemble documents and videos into a single file library, MWoffliner will do for wikis, youtube will do YouTube, etc.).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kiwix-apple and mwoffliner you can also consider the following projects:
ios-oss - Kickstarter for iOS. Bring new ideas to life, anywhere.
wikipedia-mirror - 🌐 Guide and tools to run a full offline mirror of Wikipedia.org with three different approaches: Nginx caching proxy, Kiwix + ZIM dump, and MediaWiki/XOWA + XML dump
kiwings - A better alternative to Kiwix for macOS
nautilus - Turns a collection of documents into a browsable ZIM file
MovieSwiftUI - SwiftUI & Combine app using MovieDB API. With a custom Flux (Redux) implementation.
wikiscript - wikiscript gem - scripts for wikipedia (get wikitext for page, parse tables & links, etc.)