====== Offline Knowledge Preservation ======

The Internet is fragile. Websites disappear (link rot studies show significant decay over 5 years), services shut down, and access can be cut by infrastructure failures, censorship, or economic collapse.

===== Kiwix =====

[[https://kiwix.org/|Kiwix]] — offline reader for free, compressed ZIM files of major knowledge sources. No internet required once downloaded.

^ ZIM Package ^ Size ^ Content ^
| Wikipedia English "mini" | ~12 GB | Full articles, no images |
| Wikipedia English (with images) | ~89 GB | Complete — fits on a USB drive |
| Computer Science "nopic" | ~443 MB | Technical reference, no images |
| Project Gutenberg | varies | Classic literature |
| Stack Exchange dumps | varies | Programming Q&A |

Also available: Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, TED talks, Crash Course, Khan Academy, medical wikis.

Full library: [[https://library.kiwix.org/|library.kiwix.org]]

**Running in Docker:**
<code bash>
docker run -d \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -v /path/to/zim/files:/data \
  ghcr.io/kiwix/kiwix-serve:latest \
  --library /data/library.xml
</code>

===== ArchiveBox =====

[[https://archivebox.io/|ArchiveBox]] — personal web archiving. Already running in this homelab at ''archive.folk.zone''. Preserves bookmarks, research papers, social media content, and legal evidence archives. Data is readable without needing to run ArchiveBox itself.

See [[folkzone:services:archivebox|ArchiveBox service page]].

===== Internet Archive Offline Mirror =====

[[https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-mirror|dweb-mirror]] — Internet Archive's open-source project for creating offline mirrors of their collection. Designed to address lack of internet access as a factor in educational outcomes and poverty.

===== HTTrack =====

[[https://www.httrack.com/|HTTrack]] — downloads entire websites to a local directory, recursively building all structures and preserving link architecture.

<code bash>
httrack "https://example.com" -O "/path/to/mirror" "+*.example.com/*"
</code>

===== Project Gutenberg Mirror =====

Over 70,000 free books in 60+ languages. New texts added daily. Mirror via rsync:

<code bash>
rsync -av --del aleph.gutenberg.org::gutenberg /path/to/mirror/
</code>

Mirroring guidelines: [[https://www.gutenberg.org/help/mirroring.html|gutenberg.org/help/mirroring]]

===== See Also =====

  * [[folkzone:services:archivebox|ArchiveBox]]
  * [[indieweb:start|IndieWeb]]
  * [[folkzone:philosophy|Homelab Philosophy]]
  * [[protocols:smallweb:solarpunk|Permacomputing]]
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