Access Wikipedia offline, install it locally

| December 9, 2008 | 3 Comments
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wiki-taxi-logoThere 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 :

  1. WikiTaxi is well documented, and it is fun to use.
  2. Most impressive feature is offline availability.
  3. External links do not work for reason is obvious however Internal linking is pretty well.
  4. You will miss Wikipedia images being offline.

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Rohit Langde is editor-in-chief and owner of Blogsolute. He is Born-Geek and Technology Enthusiast. Being a blogger, he is also Mechanical Engineer who believes in simple Living. You can

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  1. Chantell Hamberger says:
    May 4, 2010 at 1:09 am

    Thanks for the read, I stand impressed.

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  2. Michel Merlin says:
    July 1, 2010 at 10:29 pm

    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    Now this 4GB is outdated so I would like an updated version, i.e. about 40GB (8GB text + 32GB images).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

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  3. Kowalski says:
    December 12, 2010 at 11:45 pm

    Helpful post. Totally agree with her.

    Reply

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