Wikipedia: Database Download
a year ago
- #Database
- #Offline
- #Wikipedia
- Wikipedia offers free copies of all content under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC-BY-SA) and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
- Offline Wikipedia readers include Kiwix, XOWA, WikiTaxi, and others for various platforms.
- Database dumps are available in SQL and XML formats from dumps.wikimedia.org and the Internet Archive.
- Multistream dumps are recommended for efficient access to articles without decompressing the entire file.
- Images and media files are available under various licenses and can be downloaded from mirrors.
- Compressed dump files require specific decompression tools like bzip2, 7-Zip, or WinRAR.
- File system and operating system limits affect the handling of large Wikipedia dump files.
- Tips for detecting corrupted files include checking MD5 sums and using updated download tools.
- Dynamic HTML generation from local XML dumps is possible with tools like XOWA and WikiFilter.
- WikiTaxi and BzReader are offline readers for Windows that allow browsing Wikipedia without an internet connection.
- EPWING format allows reading Wikipedia offline on various platforms, including mobile devices.
- Mirror building tools like WP-MIRROR enable local browsing of Wikipedia content.