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.

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.

Checkout internet in a box. Easy to setup, update and select datasources which include wikipedia among many. https://internet-in-a-box.org/

Yup! Here's my setup:

https://github.com/shadybraden/compose/blob/main/kiwix/compose.yaml

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

Yes, I host Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and a few other resources. Very convenient, and the full Wikipedia is only like 100 gigs.

The full Wikipedia is saved on my mobile phone thanks to Kiwix

Yes. This is my ansible role that deploys it

Is there an actual download link? They want $20 for the Raspberry Pi image

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.

https://imgur.com/a/DmmqJdh

Yes, it’s helpful

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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