Wikipedians can now download the entirety of the English Wikipedia – all 9.7GB of it – and access it offline at any time you want without the Internet connection.
We all know about Wikipedia. It is the biggest free online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.4 million in the English Wikipedia, are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.
In order to access the Wikipedia you must have an internet connection. This article tells you how to download the entire Wikipedia on your PC and then use it, of course, without any internet connection.
About Kiwix software:
Kiwix is an offline reader for web content. It's software intended to make Wikipedia available without using the internet, but it is potentially suitable for all HTML content. Kiwix supports the ZIM format, a highly compressed open format with additional meta-data.
Kiwix is a Free Software licensed under the GPL version 3. It means you can freely distribute and share kiwix with other people. Kiwix enables you to have the whole Wikipedia at hand wherever you go. Kiwix gives you access to the whole human knowledge. You don't need Internet, everything is stored on your computer, USB flash drive or DVD.
Kiwix provides a range of features like Full text search engine, Bookmarks & Notes, HTTP server, PDF/HTML export, and it has many more features.
Download Kiwix:
Kiwix is small and efficient software, usable on lower powered or old computers. It runs on a large range of operating systems, on Android and on the three main PC operating systems Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OSX and GNU/Linux distributions.
Download the Kiwix software here http://kiwix.org/wiki/Software
Download Wikipedia:
Follow these few guidelines and you will have all the Wikipedia stored in your PC and access it offline.
First you need to download the Wikipedia database. It is quite large, about 18.2 GB, so it may take hours or days depending on your internet connection speed. For downloading Wikipedia go to http://kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page and click on Download Wikipedia in right top corner.
Start your BitTorrent client and grab a copy of the 9.7GB file (.torrent link, other languages download options). You can also download content packages directly from within Kiwix using its library feature.
Now extract the file you downloaded in first step in a folder. After extracting you can see the folder name "data" inside which another folder with name "content". Inside this folder there will be file with extension .zimaa. You need to open this file in kiwix.
In Kiwix select File ,the select open file and select the .zimaa file.
Now Wikipedia will be opened inside the kiwix browser and you can access any information by searching it in search box.
How to download Wikipedia with in Kiwix library.
For more information please visit Wikipedia.
We all know about Wikipedia. It is the biggest free online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.4 million in the English Wikipedia, are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.
In order to access the Wikipedia you must have an internet connection. This article tells you how to download the entire Wikipedia on your PC and then use it, of course, without any internet connection.
About Kiwix software:
Kiwix is an offline reader for web content. It's software intended to make Wikipedia available without using the internet, but it is potentially suitable for all HTML content. Kiwix supports the ZIM format, a highly compressed open format with additional meta-data.
Kiwix is a Free Software licensed under the GPL version 3. It means you can freely distribute and share kiwix with other people. Kiwix enables you to have the whole Wikipedia at hand wherever you go. Kiwix gives you access to the whole human knowledge. You don't need Internet, everything is stored on your computer, USB flash drive or DVD.
Kiwix provides a range of features like Full text search engine, Bookmarks & Notes, HTTP server, PDF/HTML export, and it has many more features.
Download Kiwix:
Kiwix is small and efficient software, usable on lower powered or old computers. It runs on a large range of operating systems, on Android and on the three main PC operating systems Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OSX and GNU/Linux distributions.
Download the Kiwix software here http://kiwix.org/wiki/Software
Download Wikipedia:
Follow these few guidelines and you will have all the Wikipedia stored in your PC and access it offline.
First you need to download the Wikipedia database. It is quite large, about 18.2 GB, so it may take hours or days depending on your internet connection speed. For downloading Wikipedia go to http://kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page and click on Download Wikipedia in right top corner.
Start your BitTorrent client and grab a copy of the 9.7GB file (.torrent link, other languages download options). You can also download content packages directly from within Kiwix using its library feature.
Now extract the file you downloaded in first step in a folder. After extracting you can see the folder name "data" inside which another folder with name "content". Inside this folder there will be file with extension .zimaa. You need to open this file in kiwix.
In Kiwix select File ,the select open file and select the .zimaa file.
Now Wikipedia will be opened inside the kiwix browser and you can access any information by searching it in search box.
How to download Wikipedia with in Kiwix library.
For more information please visit Wikipedia.
