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Kiwix - The Offline Wikipedia Reader

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Kiwix is an offline Wikipedia reader, ment for accessing informative, investigative and educational contents without an internet connection.

This is a community to comment and share everything related to Kiwix and the Kiwix Project org. You can find more info on their official website: https://www.kiwix.org/en/

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So, I was thinking about this, and I realized that Kiwix might actually be one of the best apps for looking at information privately, for the following reasons:

  • Completely off the grid, so no tracking, no cookies, no spying by your ISP or people who might be monitoring your internet activity.
  • No browsing history.
  • You can bring your content anywhere.
  • No censorship.

Yeah, most of the official zim contents for Kiwix are inoffensive and is mostly general information, but imagine if you live in a country with heavy censorship and you want to inform yourself about topics that the people in power don't want you to look out, or imagine if you live in a community run by a cult and they control what you look at on the internet. Well, Kiwix is not on the internet, and at any moment you can hide or delete the kiwix content and there is no trace that you were looking at forbidden knowledge that the cult don't want you to know about.

I don't see people talking about these advantages, and I think it would be nice to point them out. What do you think?

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