Is there an off line version of Wikipedia?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

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 at 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
>
> --- On *Thu, 1/8/09, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>* wrote:
>
> From: Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>
> Subject: Re: Is there an off line version of Wikipedia?
> To: cy41169 at yahoo.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general
> discussions" <ubuntu-users at 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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