Wikipedia files download

Printable version :You can have a printed copy of the page for school projects, researches, assignments, etc.

Select Download as PDF from the list. This will redirect you to a page which will provide you with the download link for the page. Wait till the rendering process is completed. The page you were redirected to will display the message Please wait while the document is being generated.

The process won't take more than a minute to complete. Immediately after it, the page will refresh automatically and a download link will be generated. Select the download link to start the download. Select Download the file to start the download. Your file will be saved in your usual 'Downloads' folder. Edward Lamin. On an Android device, you have to be a member of Wikipedia. You can register by clicking the Options bar on the far upper-right corner.

After registering, when you load an article you will see a download symbol above the page in the middle. Now, here is where things got a little dicey.

I ran into some problems trying to open the XML files on my Mac. You can technically "open" the files by using Safari. Since it's loading a nearly 10 GBs of data, it may take a while. This is the entire Wikipedia dump with all of its tags and an under-appreciation for spaces. Obviously this is nearly impossible to read, but it may suffice for those with tons of patience and really good eyesight.

For you Mac users, Kiwix is your best bet for a stress-free download and browse process. If you're on Windows, you can use Wiki Taxi.

Just download and extract the program, then open up the folder and click on WikiTaxi. You can go ahead and read through or just skip down to the section that says Import the XML dump into a WikiTaxi database. If you downloaded WikiTaxi before you grabbed a dump from Wikipedia, they do provide some of the most popular dumps directly in the program.

If you want to try out the entire process, I would suggest downloading the Simple English Wiki, since it will only take a few minutes to download to your computer.

After your selected dump is finished downloading make sure to save it somewhere you can find it , you can go back to the WikiTaxi folder and select the WikiTaxi Importer. It will ask you to find the dump file and the database file for the Wikipedia file you have downloaded. Browse your computer and locate the dump you just saved to your computer. It should load into that top section. Now for database, the walkthrough does not tell you how to designate this. All you're really doing is selecting a place for WikiTaxi to place and later locate the Wikipedia information.

Simply browse through your computer and find a place where you wish the database file to exist. Just download and run the program. Then use the menu option to import the Wiki you want, which includes English Wikipedia. Xowa also offers an Android app which is even easier to use. Once you have the reader, you need to uncompress the Wikipedia dump file, except in the case of Xowa, which can read the compressed dump files directly.

This is a good advantage when space is limited! Like Xowa or WikiTaxi, Kiwix is an application that offers a way to read those Wikipedia downloads and render them the way a web browser would. The big difference is that Kiwix has done quite a bit of the work for you already. Kiwix has converted the offline files into their own special format and kept them updated. You can download these files manually from the site or use the various apps to download them directly. Luckily the tablet and smartphone apps work pretty well.

Not bad! The trick was getting it home. To get it home, I needed a data storage device. The flash drive was barely big enough, considering that a flash drive marked 64GB is actually only capable of storing a hair over 59GB. It had to be USB 3. If I had used a USB 2. That would have been unacceptable. The big question is, how long will it take to download Wikipedia? Is my internet connection fast enough? One way to find out is to simply start the download of a Wikipedia package and see what time your browser estimates that it will take.

If it says something crazy like "8 days remaining" you may have to consider using a different access point. Oh well, simply cancel the download.

Whatever you do, whether you are downloading a. This is especially important if you are trying to save Wikipedia to a flash drive, as the last thing you want is to save the package to the hard drive, and then have to transfer it to your flash drive after the download is finished. It is much more expedient to save directly to the flash drive. Okay, so now you are ready to download some stuff!

Scroll through the list of packages and find the right one for you. Nothing would be more disappointing than downloading the wrong one. Pay attention to the language, date, and file size of the package. Okay, so if you downloaded one of the. Then just open the folder you extracted and click on kiwix. Well, if you downloaded the Kiwix software and the Wikipedia. If you opted for the installer. Otherwise, simply unpack the. A dialog box will pop up. This should make Kiwix find your.

In the folder that contains kiwix. Then, move your. Worked for me! Well, that is pretty much it. Reply 2 years ago. Introduction: Download Wikipedia for Offline Use.