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Publishing related to offline solutions on Diff blog

2025

• WikiAfrica Hour #42: Offline Wikis, the need and the available options. - February 2025
• Highlights from the webinar “How to use Wikipedia offline”: bringing knowledge where the internet can’t reach - June 2025

2024

• WikiChallenge African Schools wins the “Open Pedagogy” Award 2024 from OE Global - October 2024
• Episode 2 \ Internet in a Box: The Rise of Computational Connectivity - Sept 2024
• Boing Boing Wikipedia's $58 gadget lets you access its entire library offline - Aug 2024
• Kiwix4Schools: The journey to impact teaching and learning in Africa. - June 2024
• Kiwix as a Tool to access Educational and Informational Content Offline in Tanzania - Feb 2024

2023

• Ofwa Brings Wikipedia to Offline Communities in Africa Through the KIWIX4SCHOOLS Program - Dec 2023
• Kiwix4Schools Project Nigeria: overcoming the limitations of internet access, and bridging the knowledge gap Using Digital Literacy. - Dec 2023
• Launching the first grants from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation in Wikimedia Projects - April 2023
• How Kiwix Could Enhance Equitable Access to Complementary Educational Resources in Africa Schools: A Case study in Ghana: Learnings, Outcomes and What we Envision for the Future! - Jan 2023
• Kiwix4schools Mentorship Africa ( Graduation Ceremony of Mentors) - May 2023

2021

• Kiwix4Schools Project in Ghana - March 2021

2019

• To bridge Peru’s digital divide, these researchers are taking Wikipedia offline - February 2019

2018

• Kiwix is connecting the unconnected - Dec 2018
• Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia - July 2018
• Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers - July 2018
• Don’t panic! Build your own Hitchhiker’s Guide with Wikipedia - June 2018
• Exploring offline access to Wikipedia: WikiFundi, an editing tool for remote schools - May 2018
• Luc Héripret on the Orange Foundation’s Digital Schools project - March 2018
• [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2018/03/13/offline-access-medical-information/ James Heilman on expanding the reach of Wikipedia's medical information– - March 2018
• Designing for offline on Android - Jan 2018

2017

• The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The RACHEL example - Nov 2017
• Gabriel Thullen on bringing offline Wikipedia to West African schools - Nov 2017
• The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example - Oct 2017
• WikiFundi, an offline editing platform for Wikipedia - March 2017

2016

• No internet? No problem! Kiwix celebrates ten years of offline Wikipedia reading - Oct 2016

2015

• Wikimania and the differences between online and offline cultures - May 2015
• Children in Mali can now read Wikipedia offline, thanks to MALebooks e-readers - May 2015

2014

• Hans Oleander: Using offline Wikipedia to guide tours at the bottom of the Earth - Oct 2014
• Emmanuel Engelhart, Inventor of Kiwix: the Offline Wikipedia Browser - Sept 2014
• Afripedia collaboration expands offline Wikipedia in Africa - July 2014

Mainstream and specialized press

• Russians are racing to download Wikipedia before it gets banned - Slate, 2022
• Swiss Technology foils Russian censorship - SWI swissinfo, 2022
• Russians are downloading Wikipedia en masse as possible ban looms - Mashable, 2022
• You can download the entirety of Wikipedia to browse offline - Vice, 2020

Conferences and presentations

• Let's Travel: who needs Wikipedia offline, and why - Wikimania, 2025
• Offline Internet: A Continuum of Connectivity - Libraries in response, 2024
• Kiwix4schools in Ghana: Enhancing Access During the Pandemic - Wikimania 2021
• Offrons Internet à 4 milliards de personnes pour 1 centime - TEDx Annecy, 2018