It was able to browse and pull directly from the zip. Actually a lot of coverage of everyday subjects is kind of bad because there are. The edits are publicly viewable for everyone on the internet to see.
I maintain a personal list of what i consider to be some of the most interesting wikipedia articles and, having recently reached 500 entries, i figured i'd share it. As a reminder, kiwix is an offline reader: Don't donate to wikipedia, the people that do the actual work don't get paid at all, donate to them instead, wikipedia gets plenty of donations from corporations and such.
There used to be an under 4gb zip file of all of wikipedia text that was used on an offline wikipedia device called wikireader. Once you download your zim file (wikipedia, stackoverflow or whatever) you can browse it without any further need for internet. A subreddit to help you keep up to date with what's going on with reddit and other stuff. All revisions on wikipedia have a permanent link.
Actually use the function of this site to post links to enable. While wikipedia is written by volunteers, hosting isn't free, and neither is all the other work we do to make sure wikipedia continues growing for many years to come. The average length of a wikipedia article is about 658 words. Downloading wikipedia is great and all, but it has little useful information in case of emergency.