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2019-2023

1. Kiwix
2. WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique/en
3. WikiFundi
4. OTA Update Hackathon
5. OfflinePedia Project - Wikimedistas de Ecuador/OfflinePedia

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2018-era overview

As of 2018, active offline wiki projects include:

• Kiwix (toolchain used by most projects) and its Wikipedia-Offline project to maintain Wikimedia snapshots in every language
  • snapshots include: Wikimed (medical), Wikipedia in jails, Enciclopedia de Venezuela (es), SOS - WP for Schools (en), and Mesh Sayada (fr+ar)
• Internet-in-a-Box (kiwix-based WP / medical /KA snapshots).
• Wikipedia 1.0 (an english-language review + snapshot project, which generates major updates to the main Kiwix en-wp image)
• WikiFundi by Wiki in Africa, an offline editor of articles
• XOWA, a free, open-source offline app that allows a user to have their own copy of a wiki on their hard-drive. It works with the latest versions of over 820 database dumps including wikis like English Wikipedia, French Wiktionary, German Wikisource, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and more.

Areas of activities include

• mw:Asynchronous Wikis/Asyncwiki Working Group

Widely distributed offline projects not recently updated include:

• OWPP: Wikipedia images for Sugar OS and OLPC (used primarily in EN + ES, 2007-2013)
• WikiReader: pocket-sized physical hardware with touchscreens and kiwix images (ca. 2008)
• WP for iPhone (ca. 2007, maintainer went off to launch Stripe ;)
• wizzy.za snapshot (S. Africa, by user:wizzy)

Discontinued projects include

• Afripédia (discontinued)
• WikiTaxi

2012-era overview

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See also

• Database Dumps
• Ecuador_Wikimedians/OfflinePedia