Is there an off line version of Wikipedia?

[Matthew Flaschen]

rpowersau at 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_mirroring_or_CD_distribution.

Matt Flaschen