![]() Let’s also not forget that Wikipedia and its siblings can speak a lot many tongues.ħ. Whether to pontificate to my wife with a nice quote or to refresh myself with a great list of film quotes. I like to keep Wikiquote and Wikitionary close by. When you have an offline copy of Wikipedia, you can save yourself from a heated argument or a black eye with just a search for “Arsenal”.Ħ. You just bet your friend that Arsenal is the fourth most valuable football club in the world. You are an information junkie and like to win your bar bets You don’t have to waste time if there’s no Internet connection.ĥ. Taking Wikipedia offline is a research tool that is always on 24x7. You are probably one of those guys who likes to look up facts and information while on the go. What if there’s another blackout or the site just goes down under the deluge of everyone searching for the cultivation practices of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis? Your very own offline copy could be a life-saver. Wikipedia is such a presence that we almost take it for granted. Just when you wanted to look into the cultivation practices of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. Remember SOPA? Wikipedia went on the offensive with a blackout on Jan 18 th. ![]() You do have Wi-Fi, but why waste the bandwidth when you have an offline copy of Wikipedia? Looking deeply into Wikipedia and hunting for the needle in the haystack takes up some bandwidth. You are in a hotspot which is costing you pretty dimes ![]() A few gigs occupied by Wikipedia on your smartphone or laptop is no big deal these days, and it could be a lifesaver.Ģ. The most probably scenario is that you are offline and don’t have immediate access to Wikipedia, but have an immediate need to look it up. You are in an island without an Internet connection But you might as well be safe rather than sorry because perhaps you’ll want to access the list of mammals displaying homosexual behavior or the article on hotel toilet paper folding or the list of nicknames used by Donald Trump when you’re away from the internet.1. It’s unlikely that Wikipedia will disappear any time soon - the Wikimedia Foundation has plenty of funds to support its five servers in Virginia, San Francisco, The Netherlands, Singapore, and Texas. The online encyclopedia has made it to outer space, to tiny villages in South America, and to rural classrooms in West Africa. ![]() Wikipedia aims to provide knowledge to the world and it allows for offline downloads in order to reach the 4 billion people without internet access. And from 2009 until 2014, the WikiReader was for sale, but now you can only find it on eBay or resale shops. There was Wikipedia on DVD in 2006, which was similar to Microsoft’s Encarta encyclopedia. If you want a flash drive with a bunch of XML data and don’t care that it’s not particularly readable, you can go that route.Ī few different offline Wikipedias have existed over the years. If you want a more involved project, you can use a Raspberry Pi to provide a local Wikipedia hotspot that multiple devices can access. There are various other ways to access offline Wikipedia. Choose the file you’re interested in (there are smaller files like “Best of Wikipedia,” topic files like “Mathematics,” or the entire encyclopedia) and download it. Download the Kiwix app, available for iPhone, iPad, or Android.Ģ. When the file downloads, you can open it in your computer’s Kiwix browser and it’ll be a clean Wikipedia interface.Just make sure that the file name has “en” in the title, which indicates that the content is in English. You can also download a version without pictures (it’s called “wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2022-01.zim”) or smaller files with articles in certain topics, such as medicine, or football, or climate change. On the site, it’s called “wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim” and it’s 89GB. Clicked the 46GB file that contains all of English Wikipedia.How to do it Download with Kiwix onto computer: So here are some methods for downloading Wikipedia with as little pain as possible using tools from the nonprofit Kiwix. ![]() In addition, some downloaded files are set up for technical analysis - not pleasure reading. Like the rest of Wikipedia, many of the tools for downloading are maintained by volunteers, which is very generous and kind but also can mean that certain tools don’t receive the maintenance they need. Wikipedia routinely makes a dump of its databases available publicly for free, and it explains a few different ways you can download its contents. ![]()
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