diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 5b8944f568..8957554fc2 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -643,6 +643,7 @@ GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES =				\
   %D%/packages/xfce.scm				\
   %D%/packages/zig.scm				\
   %D%/packages/zile.scm				\
+  %D%/packages/zim-files.scm			\
   %D%/packages/zwave.scm			\
 						\
   %D%/services.scm				\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/zim-files.scm b/gnu/packages/zim-files.scm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..49b7accb52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/zim-files.scm
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
+;;; Copyright © 2022 Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
+;;;
+;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+;;; your option) any later version.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;
+;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;; along with GNU Guix.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+(define-module (gnu packages zim-files)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages)
+  #:use-module (guix build-system copy)
+  #:use-module (guix download)
+  #:use-module (guix gexp)
+  #:use-module (guix utils)
+  #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
+  #:use-module (guix packages))
+
+;;; Commentary:
+;;;
+;;; Many Guix contributors have a tendency to update packages in this
+;;; way: they only update the package revision and then launch a build
+;;; that fails just to make Guix tell them the right base32 hash. They
+;;; then update the base32 hash and launch the build again.
+;;;
+;;; However some ZIM files are quite big. At the time of writing,
+;;; wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim is about 89 GiB.
+;;;
+;;; So this approach will be time consuming as the second time Guix
+;;; will restart downloading the same file from scratch.
+;;;
+;;; The solution to this issue is to download the sha256sums (for that
+;;; simply append .sha256 to the URL of the ZIM file). It will give a
+;;; file like that:
+;;; f12163513307893c87fd75009b1d61677bae675627eaadf4cb0fa63953eea021  wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim
+;;;
+;;; You can then use this hash to compute the base32 with nix-hash:
+;;; $ nix-hash --type sha256 --to-base32 \
+;;; f12163513307893c87fd75009b1d61677bae675627eaadf4cb0fa63953eea021
+;;; 08d0xr9kk9hgrgsavsi7arkswyv7c4frn03mzn3kr2876d8n68gi
+
+(define-public wikipedia-en-all-maxi
+  (package
+    (name "wikipedia-en-all-maxi")
+    (version "2022-05")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri (string-append
+                    "https://mirror.download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/"
+                    (string-replace-substring name "-" "_")
+                    "_" version ".zim"))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "08d0xr9kk9hgrgsavsi7arkswyv7c4frn03mzn3kr2876d8n68gi"))))
+    (build-system copy-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     (list
+      ;; We are not (yet) generating the zim file, so it doesn't make sense to
+      ;; build substitutes.
+      #:substitutable? #f
+      ;; If we use kiwix-serve, the path of the ZIM file needs to be passed to
+      ;; it. And if the filename has a version in it, we'd need to update the
+      ;; path manually each time the package is updated. We also need to
+      ;; change the filename to match the package name.
+      #:install-plan #~'((#$(string-append
+                             (string-replace-substring name "-" "_")
+                             "_" version ".zim")
+                          #$(string-append "share/" name ".zim")))))
+    (synopsis
+     "Complete English Wikipedia packed in a ZIM file, for offline usage with
+Kiwix")
+    (description
+     "Wikipedia is a free Encyclopedia.  This is the English version.  It
+contains all the articles, and all the medias (images, etc) present in
+the articles in a scaled down resolution.")
+    (home-page "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page")
+    (license license:cc-by-sa3.0)))
