You urgently need to look up how to tie a Windsor knot, but the Internet is down and you can't reach Wikipedia. What do you do?
Kiwix <http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page> allows you to have a local copy of Wikipedia or other similar hypertext context. (A full copy of the English Wikipedia with preview pics comes in at under 50 GB. You can put it on a USB stick.) Kiwis provides several components: a web server to serve content on the local network, a desktop client that accesses content on disk, various tools. The attached port is extremely rough. It only builds the web server. No consideration has been given to security. But it gives you an idea what's possible. There's a number of new dependencies we'll need, and I'll post those next. If you want to check this out on your machine, there's various Wikimedia content available here: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages E.g. the Simple English Wikipedia without any pics is just 119M. I'll next work on the desktop client. We'll see how it goes. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
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