There is a lovely small program which makes it possible to access Wikipedia offline by installing it ;locally on your hard drive. WikiTaxi enables you to read, search, and browse Wikipedia offline. No Internet connection is needed, all pages are stored in a WikiTaxi database.
The installation of Wiki Taxi is not greater than 2 MB, but you’ve still outside the XML file that included the Wikipedia version of your choice is packed. To do so, in search of a so-called database dump, back-ups that the encyclopedia itself regularly makes. Depending on the language can copy such a large increase in size. The simple implementation of the English version is around 8 GB in size.
Overall :
- WikiTaxi is well documented, and it is fun to use.
- Most impressive feature is offline availability.
- External links do not work for reason is obvious however Internal linking is pretty well.
- You will miss Wikipedia images being offline.
Thanks for the read, I stand impressed.
My 4GB Wikipedia offline with images (Erik Zachte TR3) needs a 40GB update
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I have used Wikipedia offline 4GB from Erik Zachte for years on my iPaq h2215 bought Oct 2003. It is a sensible reduction of Wikipedia, rather complete, with just the biggest images shrunk; aside special pages (like user pages, discussion pages, history pages), you notice no difference with Wikipedia online.
Now this 4GB is outdated so I would like an updated version, i.e. about 40GB (8GB text + 32GB images).
BTW please don’t fall to the bad joke some are doing in calling “encyclopedia” a Wikipedia sans images. In 2010 such a lie isn’t even funny.
Versailles, Thu 01 Jul 2010 19:30:00 +0200