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I built a self-hosted AI knowledge base on top of offline Wikipedia (and it speaks MCP)

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I keep a folder of ZIM files on my home server: offline Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, DevDocs and iFixit, all from the Kiwix catalog. It's tens of gigabytes of knowledge that works without internet. The problem was that kiwix-serve only lets you read it. I wanted to: ask it questions and get answers I…

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  1. 2026-10-16 07:09 · DEV Community — AI
    I built a self-hosted AI knowledge base on top of offline Wikipedia (and it speaks MCP)

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