Last time I updated it was closer to 120GB but if you’re not sweating 100 GB then an extra 20 isn’t going to bother anyone these days.
Also, thanks for reminding me that I need to check my dates and update.
EDIT: you can also easily configure a SBC like a Raspberry Pi (or any of the clones) that will boot, set the Wi-Fi to access point mode, and serve kiwix as a website that anyone (on the local AP wifi network) can connect to and query… And it’ll run off a USB battery pack. I have one kicking around the house somewhere
That’s a good question (and good idea) that I hadn’t really thought about past a collection of ZIMs. The one I built advertises it’s own AP SSID that anyone can connect to and then access the ZIMs that are served via kiwix-serve on HTTP/80. That is, I wanted a single, low power, headless device that multiple people could use simultaneously via wifi and browser rather than a personal device.
I hadn’t really thought about other helpful services past that. I mean, we’ve got a (wee) server so why not use it? I like the idea of OSM and their website is open source but has a lot of dependencies :
openstreetmap-website is a Ruby on Rails application that uses PostgreSQL as its database, and has a large number of dependencies for installation
A fully-functional openstreetmap-website installation depends on other services, including map tile servers and geocoding services, that are provided by other software. The default installation uses publicly-available services to help with development and testing.
I wonder how hard it would be to host everything it needs locally/offline… and what that would do to power consumption : )
Thanks for the idea - something to look into, for sure.
Just built one of those using Dietpi as the OS and NVME M.2 for the storage. I have many different ZIMs and running different services and only using about 270GB.
Works great for offline use. Probably should add an ISO or 2 as well.
Yeah also if you make a Zim wiki or convert a website into Zim then you can run that stuff too. If you use Emacs it’s easy to convert some pages to wikitext for Zim too
I wonder if there’s anyways to edit these files afterwards? They tend to be read only, right? I must confess, I don’t have too much experience with this myself.
For wikipedia you’ll want to use Kiwix. A full backup of wikipedia is only like 100GB, and I think that includes pictures too.
120GB not including Wikimedia 😉
Also, I wish they included OSM maps, not just the wiki.
Last time I updated it was closer to 120GB but if you’re not sweating 100 GB then an extra 20 isn’t going to bother anyone these days.
Also, thanks for reminding me that I need to check my dates and update.
EDIT: you can also easily configure a SBC like a Raspberry Pi (or any of the clones) that will boot, set the Wi-Fi to access point mode, and serve kiwix as a website that anyone (on the local AP wifi network) can connect to and query… And it’ll run off a USB battery pack. I have one kicking around the house somewhere
Do you recommend adding anything else to it?
For instance, OSM maps?
I’ve been thinking about running the Kiwix app + OSMAnd on an old Android phone and auto updating it once a year.
That’s a good question (and good idea) that I hadn’t really thought about past a collection of ZIMs. The one I built advertises it’s own AP SSID that anyone can connect to and then access the ZIMs that are served via
kiwix-serveon HTTP/80. That is, I wanted a single, low power, headless device that multiple people could use simultaneously via wifi and browser rather than a personal device.I hadn’t really thought about other helpful services past that. I mean, we’ve got a (wee) server so why not use it? I like the idea of OSM and their website is open source but has a lot of dependencies :
I wonder how hard it would be to host everything it needs locally/offline… and what that would do to power consumption : )
Thanks for the idea - something to look into, for sure.
Just built one of those using Dietpi as the OS and NVME M.2 for the storage. I have many different ZIMs and running different services and only using about 270GB.
Works great for offline use. Probably should add an ISO or 2 as well.
What other services are you running?
@[email protected] asked what else I was running in a sibling comment to yours and I didn’t have an answer because I’m not… yet : )
Yeah also if you make a Zim wiki or convert a website into Zim then you can run that stuff too. If you use Emacs it’s easy to convert some pages to wikitext for Zim too
I wonder if there’s anyways to edit these files afterwards? They tend to be read only, right? I must confess, I don’t have too much experience with this myself.
It’s probably hundreds of thousands of HTML files, no? What is the fear about being able to edit or not?