You could try wget.

http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/wget/v1/wget_7.html#SEC33

The second example does what you want I believe. Be interesting to see how long it takes.


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Charlie Dorff <cy41169@yahoo.com> wrote:


Thank you for responding to my email. What I meant is downloadable copy. Sometimes I don't always have internet access so I thought it would be nice to have a searchable database of all the wikipedia artcles on laptop.

Charlie

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Subject: Re: Is there an off line version of Wikipedia?
To: cy41169@yahoo.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>

Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 1:37 PM

Charlie Dorff wrote:
> Hi...
> I was wondering if there is an off line version of Wikipedia and if there
is how do you install it? Thank
you.
> Charlie
>
>
>
>
>
>

Offline? As in a downloadable copy of the entire wikipedia site?

Or the wiki part itself? If you want the wiki part, that's available as

mediawiki and should be in the repository I would think.


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On Thu, January 8, 2009 1:24 pm, Charlie Dorff wrote:
> Hi...
> I was wondering if there is an off line version of Wikipedia and if there
> is how do you install it? Thank you.
> Charlie

From the wikipedia faq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RFAQ#CD

Can I get Wikipedia on CD, or download it for offline use?

SOS Children have published a 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection for schools
which may be viewed at Wikipedia CD Selection and is downloadable for free
off the charity website at wikipedia cd download page.

The database can be downloaded here, but you will need to set up a web
server, PHP, MySQL and our wiki software, MediaWiki, to make use of it. A
paper or CD version of Wikipedia is currently under discussion at
Wikipedia:Pushing To 1.0.

However, several Wikipedians have made various Wikipedia databases
available in TomeRaider format for offline reading. See
Wikipedia:TomeRaider database for more details.


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rpowersau@gmail.com wrote:
> You could try wget.
>
> http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/wget/v1/wget_7.html#SEC33
>
> The second example does what you want I believe. Be interesting to see
> how long it takes.

Please don't do this. It's a huge waste of resources. Download one of
the compressed dumps. For a private user the static HTML
(http://static.wikipedia.org/) is probably easiest (though still a huge
download); it basically gives you HTML files you can browse offline.
Other options, including many third-part solutions, are listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database#Static_HTML_tree_dumps_for_mirr oring_or_CD_distribution.

Matt Flaschen

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Jason Crain wrote:

> The database can be downloaded here, but you will need to set up a web
> server, PHP, MySQL and our wiki software, MediaWiki, to make use of it. A
> paper or CD version of Wikipedia is currently under discussion at
> Wikipedia:Pushing To 1.0.

The static dumps (http://static.wikipedia.org/) doesn't require
software. It doesn't have images either, though.

Matt Flaschen

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Charlie Dorff wrote:
> Thank you for responding to my email. What I meant is downloadable copy. Sometimes I don't always have internet access so I thought it would be nice to have a searchable database of all the wikipedia artcles on laptop.
> Charlie
>


Yeah.. ok,, if you find a good price on a laptop that can hold that, let
me know. </Sarcasm>

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Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/wget/v1/wget_7.html#SEC33
>> The second example does what you want I believe. Be interesting to see
>> how long it takes.
> Please don't do this. It's a huge waste of resources. Download one of
> the compressed dumps. For a private user the static HTML
> (http://static.wikipedia.org/) is probably easiest

How about the search engine?


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On Thu, January 8, 2009 10:26 pm, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Download one of the compressed dumps. For a private user the static
>> HTML (http://static.wikipedia.org/) is probably easiest
>
> How about the search engine?

If you want the search engine, you will have to download the database
dumps from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediaatabase_download), set
up a web server with PHP, mysql, and the MediaWiki software. It is much
easier to use the static pages and look up things in the index.

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Rashkae wrote:
> Charlie Dorff wrote:
>> Thank you for responding to my email. What I meant is downloadable
>> copy. Sometimes I don't always have internet access so I thought it
>> would be nice to have a searchable database of all the wikipedia
>> artcles on laptop. Charlie
>>
>
>
> Yeah.. ok,, if you find a good price on a laptop that can hold that,
> let me know. </Sarcasm>

The English static dump is 14 GB compressed. Even if it's really a full
20 times that uncompressed like it says at
http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html (which I doubt) you can
easily get a laptop with a 320 GB hard drive for 800. And of course,
you're allowed to user it for other things too.

Matt Flaschen

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