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Wikipedia offline?

  • 03-08-2008 11:46am
    #1
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭


    Did a bit of searching on this with limited success. It seems you can download the enitre wiki database and then import it into a reader for offline reading.

    The program I got is WikiTaxi, but does not seem to import for me.

    Anyone got wiki working offline before?


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  • #2
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    I don't know about having an offline version maintained/updated regularly but there was a release of a lot of articles on DVD a few months back. Can't remember what this project was called ... quick search later and here's a link: linky.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Jesus, how big is the Wikipedia at this stage?


  • #4
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Overheal wrote: »
    Jesus, how big is the Wikipedia at this stage?
    Must be massive with so much multimedia between all the articles. Notice how the DVD 'only' has a few thousand articles? :D


  • #5
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    4gbs with only latest text only articles.

    Anyway I did a bit more research on it and there's very little out there to get it working.

    The best I managed was this:

    http://www.k840.com/install-wikipedia-locally/

    which i've got partially working, with a subset of wikipedia downloaded. I'll update more when I have the full thing complete. It takes an hour to unpack.


  • #6
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    I suppose a wget would do it but you would probably be blacklisted for using a lot of bandwidth.


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