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Erich Blume 649ae15204 Fix escaped pipes in wiki-links 
Remove backslash escaping from pipe characters in wiki-links.
Correct: [[services/forgejo|Forgejo]]
Wrong: [[services/forgejo\|Forgejo]]

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-03 13:33:14 -08:00

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Kiwix
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knowledge

Kiwix

Offline Wikipedia and ZIM archive server.

Quick Reference

Property Value
URL https://kiwix.ops.eblu.me
Tailscale URL https://kiwix.tail8d86e.ts.net
Namespace kiwix
Image ghcr.io/kiwix/kiwix-serve:3.8.1
Storage NFS from [[storage/sifaka

Architecture

Component Purpose
kiwix-serve Serves ZIM files on port 80
torrent-sync Sidecar syncing ZIM torrents to [[transmission
zim-watcher CronJob (hourly) to restart on new ZIMs

Configured Archives

  • Wikipedia top 1M English articles with images
  • Project Gutenberg (60,000+ books)
  • iFixit repair guides
  • Stack Exchange (SuperUser, Math, etc.)
  • LibreTexts textbooks
  • DevDocs developer documentation

Full list: argocd/manifests/kiwix/configmap-zim-torrents.yaml

Adding Archives

  1. Edit configmap-zim-torrents.yaml
  2. Add torrent URL from https://download.kiwix.org/zim/
  3. Sync: argocd app sync kiwix
  4. Torrent-sync adds to transmission
  5. zim-watcher restarts kiwix when download completes

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