{{Short description|Internet search engine and web archive for French Wikipedia}} {{Multiple Issues|{{Update|date=September 2025}} {{Expand French|Wikiwix}}}} 200px|right '''Wikiwix'''<ref>{{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171201154033/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikiwix.com |archive-date=2017-12-01|title=Ranking stated in Alexa Internet|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikiwix.com|access-date=1 December 2017}}</ref> is a web-based search engine that indexes and searches Wikipedia articles. It also provides a related archiving service that preserves snapshots of referenced web pages.<ref>{{cite web |first1=Livia |last1=Iacolare |url=http://mashable.com/2007/07/16/wiki-toolbox/ |title=The Wiki Toolbox: 30+ Wiki Tools and Resources |work=Mashable |date=July 16, 2007 |access-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref>
==Description== Wikiwix is not a wiki, as the name might suggest, but is a multilingual internet search engine operating independently of the Wikimedia Foundation. However, its search results are provided solely from the Wikipedia database.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smarty |first1=Ann |title=WikiWix: Additional Help with Your Keyword Research |url=https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wikiwix-additional-help-with-your-keyword-research/12520/ |website=Search Engine Journal |access-date=29 August 2025 |language=en |date=20 August 2009}}</ref> It also provides an archiving service which sees extensive use in the French Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipédia:Prise de décision/Système de cache |trans-title=Wikipedia:Decision making/Cache system |url=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Prise_de_d%C3%A9cision/Syst%C3%A8me_de_cache |website=Wikipédia |access-date=5 September 2025 |language=fr |date=23 August 2019}}</ref>
The search engine is developed by a French company, Linterweb, which also provided sponsorship towards publishing Wikipedia 0.5 on DVD in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arrington |first1=Michael |authorlink=Michael Arrington |date=May 19, 2007 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2007/05/19/the-mysterious-wikiwix/ |title=The Mysterious Wikiwix: Affiliated With Wikipedia? |work=TechCrunch |access-date=August 29, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia maakt cd voor internetlozen |url=https://tweakers.net/nieuws/47253/wikipedia-maakt-cd-voor-internetlozen.html |website=Tweakers |access-date=1 November 2025 |language=NL |trans-title=Wikipedia makes CD for internetless}}</ref>
==Functionality== {{unreferenced|section|reason=information from Polish wiki article requires independent referencing|date=August 2025}} The search engine allows searching for texts, images and geographical names on maps (called "atlas") in 13 languages (Arabic, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Interlingua, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish).
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==External links== {{Commonscatinline}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071011065220/http://wikiwix.com/?lang=en archived copy of Wikiwix search page] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070702051601/http://en.wikiwix.com/faq/index.php?&lang=en Wikiwix FAQs (archived)]
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