In the UWP and PWA versions of this app, this will work Windows 10/11, you can tap this icon to open the Windows Maps app at the selected location. On some Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (English and German) pages you will see map pins. Note that this app cannot (yet) do full text search of the contents of all articles in a ZIM. You can search through the titles of articles in each archive to find the one you want, or view all the article titles with the ZIM Archive Index (see This app is regularly tested with a range ofĭifferent archives, and works with almost all of them - but note that our main focus is on Wikipedia-related archives (Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, WikiMed, You can access this virtual offlineĮncyclopaedia even if you are undertaking a long plane journey, hiking, and travelling or living in areas with weak or non-existent Internet access. Archives are available in many different languagesįor resources such as Wikipedia, WikiMed, Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, Project Gutenberg, TED Talks, Stackexchange, etc.

You can download them in this app (see Usageīelow), or if you know someone with an archive you want, you can also share archives, e.g. To use this app, you will need to obtain/download one or more archives (called ZIM archives). You can still gain access to a huge repository of knowledge and culture in almost every language using Kiwix offline archives. If your Internet access is expensive, slow, unreliable, insecure or censored, Kiwix aspires to make the world's knowledge available to everyone for free. Improving the app are very welcome: see About section. If you like it, please leave a positive review.

(Windows 10) and install those apps instead. Or else see the About page for more information.Īlternatively, if you only want Wikivoyage or WikiMed in English, look for 'Wikivoyage by Kiwix' or 'WikiMed' in the Microsoft Store For the full experience you must download an offline ZIM archiveĪnd store it on your device! You can do this from the Configuration page , This application may be packaged with a small sample ZIM archive WITHOUT PICTURES of the top 100 Wikipedia articles so that youĬan get a feel for how offline Wikipedia browsing works. Kiwix gives no guarantee as to the accuracy of information in the archives you access with this app. Information in archives is free, open source and provided by volunteers. To get updated info, you will need toĭownload a new archive periodically. DISCLAIMER: Please be aware that Kiwix works with offline archives.

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