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We installed Kiwix at a CDCC in Venezuela.

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So I gotta explain this real quick, a CDCC (Centro de comunicación communal) is something like a Cybercafe, but socialist, meant for the community to come there and use the internet, and use it as a place where the organized communities can do meetings and share knowledge.

So, we were recovering this one, and I did install Kiwix in every single computer, so it can still work as a place to do research and share knowledge even if the internet gets cut off.

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Just today I realised Kiwix is still being developed
  • Damn, that's weird. I've been using the Play Store Version and is kept up to date.

    I think the Fdroid version is not being promoted anymore. Certainly should be updated in f-droid for people who use de-googled phones.

  • Kiwix stickers are so cool
  • Not rn. I was gifted these. For what I know, the ORG gives them in their events. I was told that maybe in the future people will be able to buy them.

    edit: I am promoting Kiwix heavily in my region, soon I'll be giving away some to people I'll help install Kiwix.

  • The Privacy advantages of Kiwix.

    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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    AutoZimAdd: A very simple bash script to find all the zim files on the current folder, and use kiwix-manage to add them to your current Kiwix XML library.

    github.com GitHub - vis4valentine/AutoZimAdd: A very simple bash script to find all the zim files on the current folder, and use kiwix-manage to add them to your current Kiwix XML library.

    A very simple bash script to find all the zim files on the current folder, and use kiwix-manage to add them to your current Kiwix XML library. - GitHub - vis4valentine/AutoZimAdd: A very simple bas...

    GitHub - vis4valentine/AutoZimAdd: A very simple bash script to find all the zim files on the current folder, and use kiwix-manage to add them to your current Kiwix XML library.

    This is my personal script to update my libraries, and I just uploaded it to github. I hope it can be useful for someone.

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    How and where are you using Kiwix at? Tell us your experience.

    I'll start. I live in Venezuela, and since I'm working at an ISP company, I know there is a lot of people who are completely off the grid who has no access to a proper up to date education, since their only means of getting information is through traveling to nearby locations with a signal, or using old outdated books that are probably already rooting.

    So for the last year I've been making proposals and taking them to higher entities, to try and go to those communities in the middle of nowhere, so we can implement Kiwix there. I already have the packages, the methodology to implement it, I'm even developing a GNU/Linux distro to make the process easier, in line with EndlessOS, but unfortunately Endless is too heavy for the computers we are dealing with.

    We might start it soon, we have already done some tests, and I even have a website (which I need to properly build still).

    I wanna read your experiences.

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    Is there a Kali linux Zim?

    I was thinking of getting a zim for the Kali Linux docs so I could check it every now and then, but I found nothing at the library. Someone knows if one exists already?

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    ¿Cómo configurar un servidor de Kiwix?

    Este es un artículo que había creado originalmente en mi blog, sin embargo, voy a compartirlo aquí en Lemmy, viendo que hace falta contenido sobre Kiwix en idioma español.

    Aquí se va a explicar cómo crear un servidor de Kiwix, añadir contenidos, y hacer que se inicie tan pronto encendamos el servidor, sin necesidad de activarlo manualmente.

    Esto ha sido probado en una Raspberry Pi 4 corriendo Raspberry Pi OS, pero también funciona bien en cualquier instalación de Debian y derivados.

    Instalación:

    Para ello vamos a necesitar instalar kiwix-tools. Si tu distribución GNU/Linux está basada en Debian, puedes instalarla con el comando:

    sudo apt install kiwix-tools

    Una vez lo hayas instalado, vamos a crear un archivo de configuración para poder ejecutar kiwix-serve como un servicio:

    Configuración del servicio:

    sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/kiwix-serve.service Luego tendrás que colocar la siguiente configuración en el archivo de texto:

    ``` [Unit] Description=Kiwix

    [Service] Type=simple User=USUARIO ExecStart=/usr/bin/kiwix-serve --library /etc/kiwix/library.xml --port 8080 --daemon Restart=always RemainAfterExit=yes

    [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ```

    Donde dice USUARIO escribe el nombre de usuario que utilizas en tu computadora.

    Guarda el documento de texto después de copiar la configuración.

    Ahora vamos a crear un directorio para guardar el archivo xml de la librería de Kiwix:

    sudo mkdir /etc/kiwix

    Después de realizar todo esto, vamos a crear un directorio en la carpeta Home de tu usuario llamada Kiwix. Puedes realizar esto utilizando el gestor de archivos gráfico. En la carpeta Kiwix puedes colocar los archivos Zim que hayan sido previamente descargados.

    Añadir Contenidos:

    Ahora podemos añadir los archivos Zim a la librería utilizando el comando kiwix-manage. Este tiene 3 funciones:

    1. Kiwix-manage /dirección/de/la/librería add dirección/del/archivo/zim. Este comando va a añadir un archivo Zim a la librería.
    2. Kiwix-manage /dirección/de/la/librería remove dirección/del/archivo/zim. Este comando va a eliminar un archivo Zim a la librería.
    3. Kiwix-manage /dirección/de/la/librería show dirección/del/archivo/zim. Mostrar el ZIM_ID de un archivo zim asignado a una librería existente.

    Si tenemos un archivo llamado wikipedia.zim en la carpeta de Kiwix en Home, entonces podemos añadirlo utilizando el comando:

    sudo kiwix-manage /etc/kiwix/library.xml add /home/USUARIO/Kiwix/wikipedia.zim Presionamos la tecla ENTER. Automáticamente, va a añadir el archivo de librería en /etc/kiwix/ y va a añadir nuestro archivo Zim a la misma.

    Ejecutar el Servicio:

    Ahora, para iniciar el servidor vamos a ejecutar:

    sudo systemctl enable kiwix-serve.service sudo systemctl start kiwix-serve.service

    Si queremos asegurarnos de que esté corriendo correctamente podemos escribir: sudo systemctl status kiwix-serve.service y el servicio está corriendo correctamente, el resultado debería ser parecido a esto:

    ● kiwix-serve.service - Kiwix Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kiwix-serve.service; enabled; preset: > Active: active (exited) since Fri 2023-01-13 14:57:05 -04; 1 day 5h ago Process: 367 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kiwix-serve --library /etc/kiwix/library.xm> Main PID: 367 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 5 (limit: 4151) CPU: 934ms CGroup: /system.slice/kiwix-serve.service └─422 /usr/bin/kiwix-serve --library /etc/kiwix/library.xml --por

    Es recomendable posteriormente ejecutar sudo systemctl daemon-reload para poder reiniciar los servicios y que se ejecute correctamente, o directamente reiniciar la computadora.

    Para poder acceder a la librería, podemos irnos al navegador disponible en nuestro servidor y escribir en la barra de URL's: localhost:8080 entonces debería enviarnos a la página principal de nuestra librería de Kiwix.

    Obtener IP del Servidor:

    Para poder acceder a la librería desde otro dispositivo conectado a la misma red que nuestro servidor, primero necesitamos conseguir la dirección IP del mismo. Podemos hacerlo fácilmente con el comando: ip a | grep inet

    El resultado debería ser similar a esto:

    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host inet 192.168.1.8/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlan0 inet6 fe80::d403:8a0a:93f6:e6d/64 scope link noprefixroute

    En la tercera línea dice que mi dirección IP local es 192.168.1.8 entonces desde otro dispositivo puedo colocar en el navegador web la dirección 192.168.1.8:8080 para acceder a toda mi librería local de Kiwix.

    Conclusiones:

    Y de esta forma ya hemos creado un servidor local de Kiwix. Este se va a ejecutar al momento de encender la computadora, sin necesidad de que volvamos a interactuar con el programa o la computadora misma, salvo cuando queramos actualizar o añadir los contenidos disponibles.

    Esto puede ser útil para implementarse en computadoras de bajos recursos, y ninguno de los pasos necesarios para el proceso de configuración del servidor dependen de una interfaz gráfica.

    Agradezco mucho a la comunidad de Kiwix por ayudarme a buscar la forma más eficiente y conveniente para crear el servidor, y ahora les traigo el proceso detallado en idioma español.

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    Where to get contents for Kiwix?

    Here you have a ling to the official Kiwix Library. You can download the Zim files different ways, such as Torrent (I recommend you to use qBitorrent), which is better for downloading the bigger ones, such as the entire Wikipedia, or direct download.

    You can also filter by language and categories.

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    Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone
  • For the curious people, Firefox OS kept living in a way, being used as the foundation for KaiOS, which was a smart operative system for "dumb" phones. This one took off in certain parts of the world.

  • Welcome to Kiwix on Lemmy.

    I'm valentine (she/they), I'm a fan of the Kiwix reader, and been promoting its usage in my country, where I know many people can benefit from it.

    I'm not affiliated to the Kiwix Project, except for having a few communications with contributors.

    I made this community because I realized there was not a Kiwix community on Lemmy yet.

    I decided to made it on Lemmy.world because this one instance appears on search engines, unlike Lemmy.ml where my main account is.

    I'll be sharing soon some of the docs I wrote about Kiwix.

    Welcome everyone.

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