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Sunday, May 2, 2010

How to download Wikipedia database?

     Many times asked me about the way to download and use Wikipedia offlline on your computer. Wikipedia free encyclopedia allow every user to download database in xml file. You can download at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ but each file is to large.
     I have tried download 170 GB then extract to xml file it's size up to 1.6 TB My computer can't process file like this!
     Wikipedia ever got a project about Wikipedia DVD to distribute in four  country to the Children and who can't reach to Internet. I have tried download 3.5 GB image file then burn to DVD. It's also Ok, there are many articles throughout in many fields of knowledge. You can see more and download at http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/archive/2008/10/2008-wikipedia-for-schools
     There's some Company like AARD DICT dispose of Wikipedia offline database try to see more about them at http://aarddict.org/ They get free download aard dictionary program which reader of aard dict database. For more database of wakipedia you should pay some money for it. But you wanna free try to download and manage with xml file like me said above. Hope you enjoy with Wikipedia encyclopedia the best and largest encyclopedia of the world!