


That parameter is explicitly there to prevent what's happening here, that mwoffliner gets denied further access to the API because it sends too many requests in a short amount of time.
#Save a wiki offline Offline
They are considering adding an offline version of The Map (with rendering server at all, I'm currently talking to them about that). They use Wikipedia and other offline Wiki images to bring these information to people where internet coverage is less than wide spread. Also, something not discussed as of yet was, that Kiwix provides so called Hotspots for developing countries. The error is always the same, just the point in processing the pages where it occurs is Pretty much like said - having the Wiki at hand offline when you are required to do offline edits due to shortage of mobile data (or lack of coverage) is very helpful.
#Save a wiki offline Pc
I can, however, confirm that the mwoffliner in the ZIMFarm fails with the same error as a dock instace that runs on my PC - just at slightly different pages - this can also be seen in the different tries from ZIMFarm. Thanks!Įdit: If it's decided to not being a workable solution, we should check if we can provide a way to access to the Wiki's API for Kiwix's farm to create the offline version themselves reliable, because currently (for three months now) the creation fails due to API I will get over to the mwoffliner Repo and see if I can get any meaningful information as to what exactly goes wrong. I'd be very happy to hear everyone's thoughts on my idea. I'm therefore proposing to dedicate a service within the OSM infrastructure to regularly (once a week) creating an offline version of the wiki and making it available for download. This should be possible in the OSM server infrastructure as well.Īfter talking to a co-founder of Kiwix, they would be more than willing to save a copy of the OSM Wiki in their farm for their users to access when it was created "somewhere else" (i.e. It seems they use a docker-version of mwoffliner to get the copy going. Their configuration for the OSM wiki can be seen here. zim-files takes time and produces data transfer which would not be necessary if it would be created with bot-access to the API on the same machine as the wiki and provided alongside the XML-dump on /dump.
#Save a wiki offline android
zim-file that can be opened with the readers they provide for Windows, MacOS, *UX, and Android - and I could really work with that.Ĭreating said. wizzy.za snapshot (S.In the German-speaking Telegram group (OSM_de) a user asked, if there was an offline version of the wiki because he didn't have mobile data packages on his phone.Īfter some digging, I found out that Kiwix (non-profit, open source software) had a March 2021 version on the OSM Wiki in their ZIMFarm as a.2007, maintainer went off to launch Stripe ) WikiReader: pocket-sized physical hardware with touchscreens and kiwix images (ca.OWPP: Wikipedia images for Sugar OS and OLPC (used primarily in EN + ES, 2007-2013).Widely distributed offline projects not recently updated include: mw:Asynchronous Wikis/Asyncwiki Working Group.It works with the latest versions of over 820 database dumps including wikis like English Wikipedia, French Wiktionary, German Wikisource, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and more. XOWA, a free, open-source offline app that allows a user to have their own copy of a wiki on their hard-drive.WikiFundi by Wiki in Africa, an offline editor of articles.Wikipedia 1.0 (an english-language review + snapshot project, which generates major updates to the main Kiwix en-wp image).Internet-in-a-Box (kiwix-based WP / medical /KA snapshots).snapshots include: Wikimed (medical), Wikipedia in jails, Enciclopedia de Venezuela (es), SOS - WP for Schools (en), and Mesh Sayada (fr+ar).Kiwix (toolchain used by most projects) and its Wikipedia-Offline project to maintain Wikimedia snapshots in every language.See Offline Projects/Reports 2018-era overview Īs of 2018, active offline wiki projects include:
