User:Sbmeirow/Offline

Please do not throw rocks at me, since this article is currently located in my user space. I welcome useful edits and constructive input.

This page is a collection of links and notes about using Wikipedia Offline. Some of this may be moved over to other existing Wikipedia articles later.

• [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/ via Wikipedia], official site
• [http://mobile.wikipedia.org/ via HAWHAW], converts larger article into smaller pieces for faster viewing
• [http://wapedia.mobi/ via Wapedia], optimized for older phones with tiny screens
• [http://wikipedia.7val.com/ via 7val]

• See Help For Wikipedia Mobile Access
• [http://itunes.apple.com/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238?mt=8 Wikipedia Mobile], iPhone, by Wikimedia Foundation

• WikiReader, $99 retail, $29/yr for updates

• See Help For Wikipedia Mobile Access
• [http://brilliantish.com/allofwiki/ AllOfWiki], iPad / iPhone / iPod, I need to read further to determine which dump file format this app uses.
• WikiPock, Android / Blackberry / Symbian / Windows Mobile, I need to read further to determine which dump file format this app uses.
• [http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page Kiwix], Symbian, requires user to download 3rd-party high-compressed dump files in [http://www.openzim.org/Main_Page ZIM] file format.

• [http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/ XOWA]
• [http://www.wikitaxi.org/delphi/doku.php/products/wikitaxi/index WikiTaxi], Windows, requires user to download official BZ2 dump files, then requires the user to run a utility to do a one-time lengthy uncompression of the BZ2 dump file.
• [http://code.google.com/p/bzreader/ BzReader], Windows, requires user to download official BZ2 dump files, and allows browsing of BZ2 without any conversion.
• [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bharat.vadera/MzReader/ MzReader], Windows, makes the output of BzReader look more like Wikipedia website.
• [http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page Kiwix], Windows / OSX / Linux, requires user to download 3rd-party high-compressed dump files in [http://www.openzim.org/Main_Page ZIM] file format.
• [http://www.okawix.com/ Okawix], Windows / Linux / Mac, uses torrents to download 3rd-party dump files (not sure if still in Zeno file format since they were working to convert to ZIM format in 2009/2010).
• [http://owi.sourceforge.net/ Offline Wikipedia Project], Linux

• [http://www.flashget.com FlashGet], Windows.
• μTorrent, Windows / Mac, excellent software to download torrents.

• [http://download.wikimedia.org/dvd.html Wikimedia DVD and Offline Downloads]
• [http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html Log of latest dumps].
• The following BZ2 files are the original official database dump files.

;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia]

• http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/, directory for english dumps
• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 (6.8GB+) (too large for FAT32 file system drives)

;[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiBooks]

• http://download.wikimedia.org/enwikibooks/latest/, directory for english dumps
• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikibooks/latest/enwikibooks-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 (90MB+)

;[http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiNews]

• http://download.wikimedia.org/enwikinews/latest/, directory for english dumps
• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikinews/latest/enwikinews-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 (29MB+)

;[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiQuote]

• http://download.wikimedia.org/enwikiquote/latest/, directory for english dumps
• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikiquote/latest/enwikiquote-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 (53MB+)

;[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiSource]

• http://download.wikimedia.org/enwikisource/latest/, directory for english dumps
• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikisource/latest/enwikisource-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 (995MB+)

;[http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page WikiVersity]

• http://download.wikimedia.org/enwikiversity/latest/, directory for english dumps
• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikiversity/latest/enwikiversity-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 (29MB+)

;[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page Wiktionary]

• http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/latest/, directory for english dumps
• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/latest/enwiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 (194MB+)

;[http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Simple English Wikipedia]

• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/latest/, directory for english dumps
• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/latest/simplewiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 (74MB+)

• See Wikipedia:Database download, a very geeky article that needs refinement.

;Articles

• [http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/download-wikipedia-on-computer-for-offline-access/ 10 Ways To Download Wikipedia For Offline Browsing]
• [http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-free-tools-for-taking-wikipedia-offline/ 4 Free Tools For Taking Wikipedia Offline]
• [http://www.junauza.com/2008/07/offline-wikipedia-for-linux.html Offline Wikipedia For Linux]
• [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Static_version_tools Wikimedia Static Version Tools]

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