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@homegrown@social.growyourown.services  ·  activity timestamp last week

You don't need the internet to look stuff up!

You can create your own 100% offline guide to human knowledge by installing @kiwix on your phone or computer and then using it to search offline copies of Wikipedia and other wiki-based reference works. There's more info about this on the official website at:

🌱 https://kiwix.org

(I use Kiwix to store https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page which gives travel tips for the entire planet. It's like a real life "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" 🙂 )

#Wikipedia

Wikivoyage – The free worldwide travel guide that you can edit

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@kiwix@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@homegrown We don't talk enough about #Wikivoyage offline!

Here all the #ZIM archives, for #offline usage, in all languages!
https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=&category=wikivoyage

We also have apps for #Android :
* In English, worlwide https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage and Europe only https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyageeurope
* In German, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyagede

But also for #windows :
* in English, worldwide https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n5sb90q4jbj

Microsoft Store - Download apps, games & more for your Windows PC

Wikivoyage by Kiwix - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store

Version 3.8.1 / 3.8.2 [4-Jan-26]: With over 33,000 destinations around the world, Wikivoyage Offline Travel Guide by Kiwix is a complete and totally free resource for travellers and tourists, or anyone interested in the locality they are visiting. This app functions completely offline, so you are not limited in your ability to consult travel information by lack of access to the Internet, or by slow and unreliable access speeds. The app is packaged with an archive containing the full text and images from the English-language edition of Wikivoyage (https://www.wikivoyage.org). The archive will update automatically from the Store when we release the update via this app. WARNING: the archive is 1.2GB. You can download Wikivoyage in other languages too, if you wish (see instructions on the About page in the app). If you are interested in having offline Wikipedia, Wiki Medicine, or Wiktionary archives, please look for our sister apps "Kiwix JS" and "WikiMed" in this Store. While on the plane or train, you can consult in-depth historical information from an offline Wikipedia archive to supplement the practical information in Wikivoyage in this app, or take the foremost manual of health-related information with you. Wikivoyage and Kiwix JS are completely free and open source. The app is in active development, so please be kind and report any issues you experience to the developer(s) so that we can improve the app. The development site for this app is: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-pwa and you can report issues there, or else use the Support contact provided with this listing.

Offline Reiseführer - Apps on Google Play

Free travel guide - no internet connection needed!

WikiVoyage Europe - Apps on Google Play

Offline travel guide for all European destinations

Offline Travel Guide - Apps on Google Play

Offline travel guide, no internet needed!
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