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Yes, and I actually use it to train a local llm so I’m not hammering the internet. I have a ton of storage, and like to keep my kids in the sandbox, so we have wikipedia, project gutenberg, kahn academy, and a bunch of others all hosted behind an apache reverse proxy which is using mellon so there’s LDAP auth.
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I also try to participate in some of the farms, running zimit and mwoffliner to help make more archives. Feels like I’m helping.
Do you actually train the LLM or use RAG? I have been looking for a local LLM + Wikipedia RAG solution for a while now.
For now I just have kiwix-serve + searxng doing a simple search but the Kiwix search is…questionable.
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So this is actively in progress, and right now I’m having trouble getting my tesla P4’s working in my proxmox environment. The P4 is supported for vgpu out of the box, allegedly, but the installer I used is forcing a kernel version pin which isn’t making me happy:
https://github.com/anomixer/proxmox-vgpu-installer/issues/16
So at this time, I’m just connecting API’s.
Checkout internet in a box. Easy to setup, update and select datasources which include wikipedia among many. https://internet-in-a-box.org/
Yep, and I love it.
I’ve got a little Banana Pi M4 Zero (PiZero form factor but much more powerful and with 4 GB RAM) loaded up with, among other useful tools, Kiwix and the full Wikipedia dump. I just refreshed it with the 2026-02 full dump, so I’m caught up for the year. I’ve also got a lot of other offline docs loaded up (React, Bun, and the devdocs for several libraries I use) and it’s nice to have local copies of those instead of googling every time.
Surprisingly, the full ~130 GB Wikipedia dump works fine on a regular Pi Zero 2 with 512 MB RAM. I don’t know how ZIM works but it does work very very well.
Similar setup here. Orangepi zero that starts kiwix server at boot and switches the wifi to AP mode. Just plug it in, connect to kiwix WiFi, access kiwix.local via phone browser, and shazam.
Nice! Those AllWinner boards are a little tricky to get going and have some quirks, but the price is great for the extra horsepower you get. Granted, I use the latest Armbian since the manufacturer’s images are all quite old.
When I saw the default configured repos were hosted by Huawei I did a double take, then installed Armbian too : D
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130GB for the entire thing? And the pi doesn’t choke on indexing / searching it?
That was my thought. I knew it couldn’t hold it in RAM but thought it would be doing crazy IO and limited by being on SD, but it seems to not be a problem. Like I said, I don’t know how ZIM does it, but it does it well. Must have some kind of index that lets it fast travel to the correct blocks or something. I dunno lol.
how capable is the search engine (I assume it has one?)
Yep, it has search. It’s…okay but kind of primitive. It’s not slow, and if you’re searching for something that’s fairly unique (as far as keywords go), it does well. But if you’re searching something like an acronym where it shows up as a regular word in other entries, it’s a lot more hit or miss.
The full Wikipedia is saved on my mobile phone thanks to Kiwix
Yes, I host Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and a few other resources. Very convenient, and the full Wikipedia is only like 100 gigs.
I do on my TrueNAS in a docker container. I have about 1TB of zim files hosted including pre-LLM copies of German, English and French Wikipedia as well as the last two current versions in these languages.
Aditionally I have project Gutenberg Books in german and english as well as lots of random technical, medical, survival, etc stuff that I came accross - a lot of that is trash though, but sorting is too time consuming and my NAS has 48TB so who cares…
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Yep exactly. Also you can have other people (friends/family) have access via VPN, Tailscale, etc.
Humorously, you could use an agent to help you sort things. If theres anything it’s good at, it’s sorting.
How do you like TrueNAS? I’m too locked in to Synology at this point—with almost 800tb (in physical drives, less actual because of redundancy), and several devices.
Pretty happy woth TrueNAS, actually came from Synology and bought a UGreen DXP4800Plus, didn’t like the UGOS on it and pretty much immediately switched tp TrueNAS. It’s been absolutely flawless for about 15 months by now, docker integration in the OS is a bit limited by I run my compose stacks managed through dockge anyways.
I won’t let LLMs crawl my data, it’s mine and mine alone :)
I got Kiwix at home and on my iPhone it rocks.
Yes, I self host the English Wikipedia dump, as well as a few cooking sites and topic specific stack exchange dumps available in zim format.
My goal is:
- reduce dependence on public internet. In the event of an outage or restriction I’d like some books and other content I can use to entertain myself
- locally preserve a snapshot of information before it is possibly diluted by LLM edits
Yup! Here’s my setup:
https://github.com/shadybraden/compose/blob/main/kiwix/compose.yaml
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters AP WiFi Access Point HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web NAS Network-Attached Storage VPN Virtual Private Network
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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Yes. This is my ansible role that deploys it
I switched to an N150 some time ago, but I previously had it running perfectly on a Pi 4 with only 2GB of RAM. There’s actually a lot more content available than just Wikipedia! You can even archive your own websites using https://zimit.kiwix.org
It’s fun and Kiwix is impressively lightweight, it uses less than 50 MB of RAM, even with an article loaded.
Is there an actual download link? They want $20 for the Raspberry Pi image
Damn their website has become a mess. Anyway
Yes, it’s helpful
