Sceenshots are bad. Not text anymore. Not searchable. Not clickable.
Conditions for copying Whonix wiki are already explained in the wiki footer.
[html] Unless otherwise noted above, content of this page is copyrighted and licensed under the same Free (as in speech) license as Whonix itself. [/html]
These tools are a hack, aren’t a clean workable solution for a distribution. Maybe https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Offline, but lack of manpower.
Thanks for your honest opinion.
I see.
I have done some truly horrible things in my shell script that will haunt me til the end of my days (or at least until I find time to do it more elegantly, whichever comes first), but all the same, I have achieved that goal of loading in a ‘common’ style.css instead of duplicating. (Well, it doesn’t quite load yet in TB, probably a bug, but I will see if I can fix that. The important thing is I can strip the css out and put it in a separate file. It works in Chromium for me so probably a TB thing…)
This has dropped the repo from being over 900MB when unpacked, to about 168MB. I can probably even remove a whole 60MB or so by deleting/re-creating the git repo again, as the .git is mostly that big due to history regarding the previous versions of the files.
Hahaha 
Bravo. Impressive indeed and although its not ideal/secure as the markdown solution, it delivers an offline and easy means to share the information.
Can this be further pruned by adding a switch to exclude the /Dev pages and /Deprecated ?
These I would guestimate would have marginal effect on size. The major
source of size would be duplicated contents as well as images.
Not a solution but a summary of the most similar we have for now:
fix offline documentation - pdfbook
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T933
https://github.com/WhonixBOT/whonix-wiki-html outdated. Script https://github.com/WhonixBOT/whonix-wiki-html/blob/master/scrape-whonix-wiki.sh is broken.
fix whonix-wiki-html backup / fix scrape-whonix-wiki.sh
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T934
This was fixed.
No idea how to fix.
Hello,
Would it be possible to publish a Github site with all of the Whonix documentation for offline viewing? Other privacy oriented projects like QubesOS have all the documentation published this way.
Thank you
Welcome to Whonix forums and thank you for your question!
Yes, that would be very good to have.
The current much less than ideal state of things is summarized in this post:
Offline Documentation Discussion
Technical challenges and limited resources prevent it from being improved. See also discussion in this forum thread. To make it better than that, someone capable needs to help.
wget can be used to download the entire site, correct?
wget not easy. Would need to script it but other tools such as htttrack do this.
New approach.
Offline reader Kiwix (requires ZIM file):
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kiwix.desktop
ZIM file creation from mediawiki:
https://openzim.org/wiki/Build_your_ZIM_file
Help welcome!
I heard news that httrack is not developed since 2017. Github has an html version of the wiki already. In what way can that be improved?
Zim files are single files, but it should be noted that the Firefox reader add-on can only search titles for terms, not content.
I made a functional .zim file using Zimwriterfs[1] and WhonixBOT’s html wiki from Github. Zimwriter requires a png favicon, so I upscaled the Whonix website favicon. HTML wiki is 144MB as a zip, 254 MB uncompressed. The Zim file is 65 MB. I can upload the file if requested.
edit: problem with in-page TOC links (firefox doesn’t know where to find it) but links across different pages works.
[1] https://download.openzim.org/release/zimwriterfs/
How does zimmer fare? Is it easy to set up?
To anyone… How is whonix-wiki-html? Useful? Any limitations?
As far as I understand https://openzim.org/wiki/Build_your_ZIM_file one can go
website -> HTML dump -> ZIM file
Or directly
website -> ZIM file
Why not go for the ZIM file? Why take the extra step through HTML?
We need a script or at least instructions on how to create the ZIM file.
Would MWoffliner produce better results?
Zimwriterfs is simple to use, the interface for the viewer is simple too. It uses a start page and has a search function, but only for page titles. Good for kiosk applications.
There are different options for viewers/servers, but I use the extension for Firefox. Some features are crippled (e.g. service workers) so viewing active content is not possible with this browser. Some files error when following links between articles, not sure if that is the extension or the html of the source at fault.
I love it! Browsing complete html is so much better than markdown. Limitation: I remember one or two “link not found” hyperlinks that should have been. That’s a common issue for mirrored websites, though.
No load on Whonix servers and I am comfortable with using the HTML dumps.
Sadly, I don’t know how to script.
$ /.zimwriterfs
Usage: zimwriterfs [mandatory arguments] [optional arguments] HTML_DIRECTORY ZIM_FILE
$ ./zimwriterfs --welcome=Documentation.html --favicon=favicon.png --language=eng -title=‘The Whonix Wiki’ --description=‘A crash course in anonymity and security on the Internet’ --creator=‘Whonix Project’ --publisher=daniel.d whonix-wiki Whonix_Wiki.zim
I’ve been polishing whonix-wiki-html.
The issue is introduced with whonix-wiki-html. I was fixing some broken link issues too. Let’s see if this would be fixed then. Will post when the update is available.
If whonix-wiki-html by itself is useful…
Any compelling advantages?
Now documented how one can already use whonix-wiki-html:
While imperfect, we now have a functional implementation of offline documentation for all users.