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title: Kiwix
description: Kiwix is an open-source software that allows you to have the whole Wikipedia at your fingertips.
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  tagline: Kiwix is an open-source software that allows you to have the whole Wikipedia at your fingertips.
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  actions:
    - text: Source
      link: https://github.com/kiwix
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    - text: Deployment Chart
      link: https://gitea.alexlebens.dev/alexlebens/infrastructure/src/branch/main/clusters/cl01tl/helm/kiwix
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# Purpose

Local copies of various wikis and other datasets. 

# Notes

Full backups, including images, of Wikipedia.

[qBittorrent](https://docs.alexlebens.dev/applications/qbittorrent/) has a category that will download the Kiwix files into the directory it reads from.

