07/06/26 - Retipedia V2

• Formatting overhaul to add anchors, tables, inline citations and better page layouts
• Support for multiple .zim archives
• Add full Gutenberg parser
• Parser improvements
• Server-side caching
• Option to read pages in sections for low-bandwidth users
• And more

Retipedia - A searchable .zim wiki for NomadNet

This allows you to host a NomadNet node that provides searchable version of multiple sites using .zim archives provided by the Kiwix project

Installation

1. Install the python-libzim package for reading .zim archives:

pip install libzim

2. Install the BeautifulSoup HTML parser package for converting the HTML from the .zim entry to Micron

pip install beautifulsoup4

3. Move the contents of the git repo to your NomadNet storage/pages/ directory

4. Adjust root_folder in settings.py to where the page files for Retipedia are located

5. Ensure all micron files for the project are executable

6. Point zims_dir in settings.py at a folder containing one or more .zim archives (a single archive_path is still supported as a fallback)

7. Run python3 generate_meta.py once to scan the archives and write the per-archive metadata sidecars into the zims/ folder. Re-run it whenever you add new archives.

You can download .zim archives provided by the Kiwix project here: https://browse.library.kiwix.org

The recommended .zim is #wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2026-03 https://browse.library.kiwix.org/viewer#wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2026-03/User%3AThe_other_Kiwix_guy/Landing which provides 7,155,441 articles in English

Recommended Gutenberg .zim: https://ebookfoundation.org/openzim.html

Retipedia currently supports all language Wikipedia .zim archives, Gutenberg .zim archives, and also implements a generic .zim parser for anything else. PRs are welcome