emcomm-tools-os-community/overlay/etc/skel/wikipedia/README.md

Offline Knowledge Bases

There are several offline repositories that are made freely available using a .zim file. Depending on the resource, they can be quite large. EmComm Tools Community includes an offline reader called "Kiwix" for searching and reading these resources offline.

1. Visit: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/

2. To save space when building your image, consider some of the smaller Wikipedia topic areas, such as:

   • wikipedia_en_computer_nopic_YYYY-MM.zim
   • wikipedia_en_history_nopic_YYYY-MM.zim
   • wikipedia_en_mathematics_nopic_YYYY-MM.zim
   • wikipedia_en_medicine_nopic_2024-04.zim
   • wikipedia_en_simple_all_nopic_YYYY-MM.zim

   The full Wikipedia export without images is 56 GB. This file is better stored separately and excluded from the ETC ISO build image.

3. Copy these .zim file to /etc/skel/wikipedia during the image build.

4. Other high-value offline exports to look into are available at:

   • https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ifixit/

5. Run kiwix after a fresh installation. Your .zim files will be available in your home directory in the wikipedia folder.