Wiki offers free copies of all available content to interested users.
These databases can be used for mirroring, personal use, informal backups, offline use or database queries (such as for Wikipedia:Maintenance). All text content is multi-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Images and other files are available under different terms, as detailed on their description pages. For our advice about complying with these licenses, see Wiki: Copyrights.
In the http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ directory you will find the latest SQL and XML dumps for the projects, not just English. For example, (others exist, just select the appropriate two letter language code and the appropriate project):
Some other directories (e.g. simple, nostalgia) exist, with the same structure.
Images and other uploaded media are available from mirrors in addition to being served directly from Wiki servers. Bulk download is currently (as of September 2012) available from mirrors but not offered directly from Wiki servers. See the list of current mirrors.
Unlike most article text, images are not necessarily licensed under the GFDL & CC-BY-SA-3.0. They may be under one of many free licenses, in the public domain, believed to be fair use, or even copyright infringements (which should be deleted). In particular, use of fair use images outside the context of Wikipedia or similar works may be illegal. Images under most licenses require a credit, and possibly other attached copyright information. This information is included in image description pages, which are part of the text dumps available from dumps.wikimedia.org. In conclusion, download these images at your own risk (Legal)
Compressed dump files are significantly compressed, thus after uncompressed will take up large amounts of drive space. The following are programs that can be used to uncompress bzip2 (.bz2) and .7z files.
Windows does not ship with a bzip2 decompressor program. The following can be used to decompress bzip2 files.
OS X ships with the command-line bzip2 tool.
GNU/Linux ships with the command-line bzip2 tool.
Some BSD systems ship with the command-line bzip2 tool as part of the operating system. Others, such as OpenBSD, provide it as a package which must first be installed.
As files grow in size, so does the likelihood they will exceed some limitation of a computing device. Each operating system, file system, hard storage device, and software (application) has a maximum file size limit. Each one of these will likely have a different maximum file size limit, but the lowest limit of all of them will become the file size limit for a storage device.
The older the software in a computing device, the more likely it will have a 2 GB file limit somewhere in the system. This is due to older software using 32-bit integers for file indexing, which limits file sizes to 2^31 bytes (2 GB) (for signed integers), or 2^32 (4 GB) (for unsigned integers). Older C programming libraries have this 2 or 4 GB limitation, but the newer file libraries have been converted to 64-bit integers thus supporting file sizes up to 2^63 or 2^64 bytes (8 or 16 EB).
Before starting a download of a large file, check the storage device to ensure its file system can support files of such a large size, and check the amount of free space to ensure that it can hold the downloaded file.
There are two limits for a file system; the file system size limit, and the file size limit. In general, since the file size limit is less than the file system limit, then the larger file system limits are a moot point. A large percentage of users assume they can create files up to the size of their storage device, but are wrong in their assumption. For example, a 16 GB storage device formatted as FAT32 file system has a file limit of 4 GB for any single file. The following is a list of the most common file systems, and see Comparison of file systems for additional detailed information.
Each operating system has internal file system limits for file size and drive size, which is independent of the file system or physical media. If the operating system has any limits lower than the file system or physical media, then the O/S limits will be the real limit.
Google Android is based upon Linux, which determines its base limits.
It is a good idea to check the MD5 sums (provided in a file in the download directory) to make sure your download was complete and accurate. You can check this by running the "md5sum" command on the files you downloaded. Given how large the files are, this may take some time to calculate. Due to the technical details of how files are stored, file sizes may be reported differently on different filesystems, and so are not necessarily reliable. Also, you may have experienced corruption during the download, though this is unlikely.
If you plan to download Wikipedia Dump files to one computer and use an external USB Flash Drive or Hard Drive to copy them to other computers, then you will run into the 4 GB FAT32 file size limitation issue. To work around this issue, reformat the >4 GB USB Drive to a file system that supports larger file sizes. If you are working exclusively with Windows XP/Vista/7 computers, then reformat your USB Drive to NTFS file system. Windows ext2 driver
If you seem to be hitting the 2 GB limit, try using wget version 1.10 or greater, cURL version 7.11.1-1 or greater, or a recent version of lynx (using -dump). Also, you can resume downloads (for example wget -c).
Suppose you are building a piece of software that at certain points displays information that came from Wiki ಕನ್ನಡ. If you want your program to display the information in a different way than can be seen in the live version, you'll probably need the wikicode that is used to enter it, instead of the finished HTML.
Also if you want to get all of the data, you'll probably want to transfer it in the most efficient way that's possible. The wikipedia.org servers need to do quite a bit of work to convert the wikicode into HTML. That's time consuming both for you and for the wikipedia.org servers, so simply spidering all pages is not the way to go.
To access any article in XML, one at a time, access Special:Export/Title of the article.
Read more about this at Special:Export.
Please be aware that live mirrors of Wikipedia that are dynamically loaded from the Wiki servers are prohibited. Please see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks.
Please do not use a web crawler to download large numbers of articles. Aggressive crawling of the server can cause a dramatic slow-down of Wiki ಕನ್ನಡ.
Note that the robots.txt currently has a commented out Crawl-delay:
## *at least* 1 second please. preferably more :D ## we're disabling this experimentally 11-09-2006 #Crawl-delay: 1
Please be sure to use an intelligent non-zero delay regardless.
You can do SQL queries on the current database dump (as a replacement for the disabled Special:Asksql page).
See also: mw:Manual:Database layout
The sql file used to initialize a MediaWiki database can be found here.
The XML schema for each dump is defined at the top of the file.
See:
MediaWiki 1.5 includes routines to dump a wiki to HTML, rendering the HTML with the same parser used on a live wiki. As the following page states, putting one of these dumps on the web unmodified will constitute a trademark violation. They are intended for private viewing in an intranet or desktop installation.
See also:
Kiwix is an offline reader for web content which runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Android and GNU/Linux. It's especially thought to make Wikipedia available offline. This is done by reading the content of the project stored in a file format ZIM, a high compressed open format with additional meta-data.
Provides Wikipedia pages with images.
Offline wikipedia reader. No images. Cross-Platform for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Maemo. Runs on rooted Nook and Sony PRS-T1 eBooks readers.
The wiki-as-ebook store provides ebooks created from a large set of Wikipedia articles with grayscale images for e-book-readers (2013).
The wikiviewer plugin for rockbox permits viewing converted wikipedia dumps on many Rockbox devices. It needs a custom build and conversion of the wiki dumps using the instructions available at http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/4755 .The conversion recompresses the file and splits it into 1 GB files and an index file which all need to be in the same folder on the device or micro sd card.
Instead of converting a database dump file to many pieces of static HTML, one can also use a dynamic HTML generator. Browsing a wiki page is just like browsing a Wiki site, but the content is fetched and converted from a local dump file upon request from the browser.
XOWA is an open-source desktop application that can read and edit Wikipedia offline. It is currently in the beta stage of development, but is functional. It is available for download here.
(for Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, and other Unices)
The offline-wikipedia project provides a very effective way to get an offline version of wikipedia. It uses entirely free software. Packages are available for Ubuntu and soon for other Linux distributions.
WikiFilter is a program which allows you to browse over 100 dump files without visiting a Wiki site.
WikiTaxi is an offline-reader for wikis in MediaWiki format. It enables users to search and browse popular wikis like Wikipedia, Wikiquote, or WikiNews, without being connected to the Internet. WikiTaxi works well with different languages like English, German, Turkish, and others but has a problem with right-to-left language scripts. Doesn't allow to display images though.
For WikiTaxi reading, only two files are required: WikiTaxi.exe and the .taxi database. Copy them to any storage device (memory stick or memory card) or burn them to a CD or DVD and take your Wikipedia with you wherever you go!
BzReader is an offline Wikipedia reader with fast search capabilities. It renders the Wiki text into HTML and doesn't need to decompress the database. Requires Microsoft .NET framework 2.0.
MzReader by Mun206 works with (though is not affiliated with) BzReader, and allows further rendering of wikicode into better HTML, including an interpretation of the monobook skin. It aims to make pages more readable. Requires Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime, which is not supplied with the download. Also requires Inet Control and Internet Controls (Internet Explorer 6 ActiveX), which are packaged with the download.
Offline Wikipedia database in EPWING dictionary format, which is common and an out-dated JIS-standard in Japan, can be read including thumbnail images and tables with some rendering limitations, on any systems where a reader is available (Boookends). There are many free and commercial readers for Windows/Mobile, MacOSX/iOS (Mac, iPhone, iPad), Android, Unix/Linux/BSD, DOS, and Java-based browser applications (EPWING Viewers).
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