This is the Kiwix official Download Repository. You may find here ZIM
file we have prepared, but also everything necessary to compile Kiwix
by yourself.

We always search for new mirrors, especialy for our big ZIM files in
the /zim directory. If you have a public HTTP(S) server with at least
100Mb/s available bandwidth, you may mirror these files using rsync:

  rsync -vzrlptD --delete \
  master.download.kiwix.org::download.kiwix.org/zim/ ./zim/

If you want to know what is the size of each directory, you can run
the following command:

  for DIR in `rsync --list-only --exclude "*.*" \
  --exclude "README" master.download.kiwix.org::download.kiwix.org/* | \
  tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f5` ; do SIZE=`rsync --info=stats2 -h -r \
  "master.download.kiwix.org::download.kiwix.org/$DIR/" | \
  grep "Total file size" | sed 's/.*://'` ; echo $DIR:$SIZE ; done

If you want to mirror only the last version of the ZIM files (should
be avoided for official Kiwix mirrors) you can get the list with the
following command:

  for ENTRY in `rsync --recursive --list-only \
  master.download.kiwix.org::download.kiwix.org/zim/ | grep ".zim" | \
  tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f5 | sort -r` ; do RADICAL=`echo $ENTRY | \
  sed 's/_20[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]\.zim//g'`; if [[ $LAST != $RADICAL \
  ]] ; then echo $ENTRY ; LAST=$RADICAL ; fi ; done

If you want your mirror to join our load-balancer, please
announce yourself at contact+mirror (at) kiwix (.) org with

- the mirror maintainer contact (so we can join you)
- the organization (if any) providing the mirror (with your link)
- the IP(s) your server use to rsync (to add to our whitelist)
- the URLs for your mirror (http/s at least)
- The country it is located in
We now request mirrors to have at least 1Gbps _unmetered_ bandwidth
to be added to our load-balancer.

We kindly ask you to run an rsync service so our master can
scan your mirror efficiently.
Without rsync, our master will have to make tons of HEAD
requests to your mirror every hour to check for its files.