Comments on: 4 Free Tools to Download and Take Wikipedia Offline

By: alok kumar

alok kumar — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:00:28 +0000

i want to download

By: petesimson

petesimson — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:32:30 +0000

Try http://www.httrack.com/ to download your wiki… including the “media” files. I have used this to download a fairly large mediawiki site so I could make it portable on a CD. Use FAR HTML http://www.helpware.net/FAR/ to make a javscript search engine for your downloaded material.

By: Stef

Stef — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:14:50 +0000

I need help! I’m not a developer nor a wiki expert but I ABSOLUTELY need to download an offline version of my Wiki, including doc. xls, pdf files that are contained in another external website and are linked to in my Wiki.
Is there a tool that grabs not only mediawiki database but also external files?
Thank you for your help.

By: Saikat

Saikat — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:45:37 +0000

Try out the Simple text version first(Simple Wiki). Its about 24MB. Its compact but far less fun. The full dump took me about 28 hrs to download (phew!). Its zipped, so when we unzip it…it expands. So make sure you have enough disk space. Make sure U have enough of free RAM too. (Leave the slider at the default setting i.e what Wikitaxi recommends). But the import does take a lot of time.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:49:03 +0000

Um, has anyone tried using WikiTaxi? I downloaded the 4GB dump and am trying to import, it’s telling me it’s going to take 1,190 hours. Using a 3.0Ghz Dual Core. That’s a long time. And setting the priority higher doesn’t make it go any faster.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:38:56 +0000

Hey Kuan

Indeed your post list all of our recommended resoures and more. Thanks for letting us know about it.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:33:25 +0000

Exactly, was jus about to say that.

By: Saikat

Saikat — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:21:37 +0000

Webaroo is the desktop client used to view the WikiSlice(s). WikiSlice is the online version and once downlaoded to the desktop, it is viewed with Webaroo. I have mentioned it.

By: haider_up32

haider_up32 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:59:17 +0000

u forgot webaroo..there is one for iphone and some sourceforge project for mac too

By: kuanhoong

kuanhoong — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:01:51 +0000

Oh what a coincident, I have written and published exactly the same post as yours one day earlier.

8 ways to access Wikipedia Offline on your PC and mobiles

http://www.kuanhoong.com/2008/10/13/8-ways-to-access-wikipedia-offline-on-your-pc-and-mobiles/