I’ve been thinking about adding this to my “Fuck it, I’ll do it myself” / SHTF pile. I have a spare 10-15GB for a good selection of basic articles (across sciences, history, pop culture trivia etc).
https://get.kiwix.org/en/solutions/hotspots/content-bundles/
https://get.kiwix.org/en/solutions/hotspots/imager-service/
There’s something inherently cool about having wikipedia in a box (yes, you’d likely need to refresh it once a year) but I’ve never heard of anyone actually self hosting a Kiwix instance.
I do on my TrueNAS in a docker container. I have about 1TB of zim files hosted including pre-LLM copies of German, English and French Wikipedia as well as the last two current versions in these languages.
Aditionally I have project Gutenberg Books in german and english as well as lots of random technical, medical, survival, etc stuff that I came accross - a lot of that is trash though, but sorting is too time consuming and my NAS has 48TB so who cares…
That’s awesome. If I understand correctly, kiwix server creates a local site you can access from anything on your wLAN, as a transparent website? I take it it auto populates with your ZIM files, and that you can add to it (eg: project Gutenberg).
If so, that’s a hell of a thing.
Yep exactly. Also you can have other people (friends/family) have access via VPN, Tailscale, etc.