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Kiwix

Internet content available offline.

Kiwix provides copies of websites that can be browsed offline. We run scrapers that will crawl a given website and compress it into a single .zim archive (based on the openZIM format). <br/><br/> The zim files can then be stored locally and read on the fly by Kiwix in such a way that the user experience is similar to being online. <br/><br/> We can fit the entirety of Wikipedia on a regular Android phone, but there are more than 7,000 zim files available in 100+ languages, mostly focused on educational content (e.g. Wikipedia, StackOverflow, Khan Academy, etc.). <br/><br/> Kiwix runs on all platforms (Linux, Windows, Android, etc.) and has around 10-12 million users worldwide, in pretty much any place you can think of that has limited or no connectivity: prisons, rural schools, refugee camps, even Antarctic bases! <br/><br/> Our big challenge is to make it as easy as possible to access or share offline content.

• python
• c++
• nodejs
• kotlin
• vue.js

• offline
• browser
• compression

git-into-gsoc org "Kiwix" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Kiwix"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Kiwix"

or ask your assistant:
"Which Kiwix repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"