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Wikipedia offers free copies of all available content to interested users. These databases can be used for mirroring, personal use, informal backups, offline use or database queries (such as for Wikipedia:Maintenance). All text content is multi-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Images and other files are available under different terms, as detailed on their description pages. For our advice about complying with these licenses, see Wikipedia:Copyrights.

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[edit] Where do I get...

[edit] English-language Wikipedia

  • Dumps from any Wikimedia Foundation project: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/
  • English Wikipedia dumps in SQL and XML: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/
    • pages-articles.xml.bz2 – Current revisions only, no talk or user pages. (This is probably the one you want. The size of the 22 November 2011 dump is approximately 7.3 GB compressed, 31.0 GB uncompressed)
    • pages-current.xml.bz2 – Current revisions only, all pages
    • pages-full.xml.bz2/7z – Current revisions, all pages (includes talk and user pages)
    • abstract.xml.gz – page abstracts
    • all_titles_in_ns0.gz – Article titles only
    • SQL files for the pages and links are also available
    • All revisions, all pages: These files expand to multiple terabytes of text. Please only download this if you know you can cope with this quantity of data – please also note that for enwiki these are often completely or partially broken, even where indicated as having been correctly dumped: see the notes in the "Latest complete dump of English Wikipedia" section below about the most recent complete dump
    • Caution: Some dumps may be incomplete – pay attention to such warnings (e.g. "Dump complete, 1 item failed") near the dump file.
  • To download a subset of the database in XML format, such as a specific category or a list of articles see: Special:Export, usage of which is described at Help:Export.
  • Wiki front-end software: MediaWiki [1].
  • Database backend software: You want to download MySQL.
  • Image dumps: See below.

[edit] Other languages

In the http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ directory you will find the latest SQL dumps for the projects, not just English. For example, (others exist, just select the appropriate two letter language code and the appropriate project):

Some other directories (e.g. simple, nostalgia) exist, with the same structure.

[edit] Where are images and uploaded files

Currently Wikipedia does not allow or provide facilities to download all images. As of 17 May 2007 (2007 -05-17), Wikipedia disabled or neglected all viable bulk downloads of images including torrent trackers. Therefore, there is no way to download image dumps other than scraping Wikipedia pages up or using Wikix, which converts a database dump into a series of scripts to fetch the images.

Unlike most article text, images are not necessarily licensed under the GFDL & CC-BY-SA-3.0. They may be under one of many free licenses, in the public domain, believed to be fair use, or even copyright infringements (which should be deleted). In particular, use of fair use images outside the context of Wikipedia or similar works may be illegal. Images under most licenses require a credit, and possibly other attached copyright information. This information is included in image description pages, which are part of the text dumps available from dumps.wikimedia.org. In conclusion, download these images at your own risk (Legal)

[edit] Dealing with compressed files

Compressed dump files are significantly compressed, thus after uncompressed will take up large amounts of drive space. The following are programs that can be used to uncompress bzip2 (.bz2) and .7z files.

Windows

Windows does not ship with a bzip2 decompressor program. The following can be used to decompress bzip2 files.

Mac

MacOS X ships with the command-line bzip2 tool.

Linux

Linux ships with the command-line bzip2 tool.

Notes
  1. Some older versions of bzip2 may not be able to handle files larger than 2GB, so make sure you have the latest version if you experience any problems.
  2. Some older archives are compressed with gzip, which is compatible with PKZIP (the most common Windows format).

[edit] Dealing with large files

As files grow in size, so does the likelihood they will exceed some limitation of a computing device. Each operating system, file system, hard storage device, and software (application) has a maximum file size limit. Each one of these will likely have a different maximum file size limit, but the lowest limit of all of them will become the file size limit for a storage device.

The older the software in a computing device, the more likely it will have a 2GB file limit somewhere in the system. This is due to older software using 32-bit integers for file indexing, which limits file sizes to 2^31 bytes (2GB) (for signed integers), or 2^32 (4GB) (for unsigned integers). Older C programming libraries have this 2 or 4GB limitation, but the newer file libraries have been converted to 64-bit integers thus supporting file sizes up to 2^63 or 2^64 bytes (8 or 16 EB).

Prior to starting a download of a large file, it is recommended that a person checks the storage device to ensure its file system can support files of such a large size, and check the amount of free space to ensure that it can hold the downloaded file.

[edit] File system limits

There are two limits for a file system; the file system size limit, and the file size limit. In general, since the file size limit is less than the file system limit, then the larger file system limits are a moot point. A large percentage of users assume they can create files up to the size of their storage device, but are wrong in their assumption. For example, a 16GB storage device formatted as FAT32 file system has a file limit of 4GB for any single file. The following is a list of the most common file systems, and see Comparison of file systems for additional detailed information.

Windows
  • FAT16 supports files up to 4GB. FAT16 is the factory format of smaller USB drives and all SD cards that are 2GB or smaller.
  • FAT32 supports files up to 4GB. FAT32 is the factory format of larger USB drives and all SDHC cards that are 4GB or larger.
  • exFAT supports files up to 127PB. exFAT is the factory format of all SDXC cards.
  • NTFS supports files up to 16TB. NTFS is the default file system for Windows computers, including Windows 2000, Windows XP, and all their successors to date.
Mac
  • HFS+ supports files up to 8EB on Mac OS X 10.2+ and iOS. HFS+ is the default file system for Mac computers.
Linux

[edit] Operating system limits

Each operating system has internal file system limit for file size and drive size, which is independent of the file system or physical media. If the operating system has any limits lower than the file system or physical media, then the O/S limits will be the real limit.

Windows
  • For Windows 95/98/ME, there is a 4GB limit for all file sizes.
Linux
  • For 32-bit Kernel 2.4.x systems, there is a 2TB limit for all file systems.
  • For 64-bit Kernel 2.4.x systems, there is a 8EB limit for all file systems.
  • For 32-bit Kernel 2.6.x systems without option CONFIG_LBD, there is a 2TB limit for all file systems.
  • For 32-bit Kernel 2.6.x systems with option CONFIG_LBD and all 64-bit Kernel 2.6.x systems, there is a 8ZB limit for all file systems.[1]
Google Android

Google Android is based upon Linux, which determines its base limits.

  • Internal Storage:
  • External Storage Slots:
    • All Android devices should support FAT16, FAT32, ext2 file systems.
    • Android 2.3 and later supports ext4 file system.
Apple iOS (see List of iOS devices)
  • All devices support HFS+ for internal storage. No devices have external storage slots.

[edit] Tips

Detect corrupted files

It is recommended that you check the MD5 sums (provided in a file in the download directory) to make sure your download was complete and accurate. You can check this by running the "md5sum" command on the files you downloaded. Given how large the files are, this may take some time to calculate. Due to the technical details of how files are stored, file sizes may be reported differently on different filesystems, and so are not necessarily reliable. Also, you may have experienced corruption during the download, though this is unlikely.

Reformatting external USB drives

If you plan to download Wikipedia Dump files to one computer and use an external USB Flash Drive or Hard Drive to copy them to other computers, then you will run into the 4GB FAT32 file size limitation issue. To work around this issue, reformat the >4GB USB Drive to a file system that supports larger file sizes. If you are working exclusively with Windows XP/Vista/7 computers, then reformat your USB Drive to NTFS file system. Windows ext2 driver

Linux and Unix

If you seem to be hitting the 2GB limit, try using wget version 1.10 or greater, cURL version 7.11.1-1 or greater, or a recent version of lynx (using -dump). Also, you can resume downloads (for example wget -c).

[edit] Why not just retrieve data from wikipedia.org at runtime?

Suppose you are building a piece of software that at certain points displays information that came from Wikipedia. If you want your program to display the information in a different way than can be seen in the live version, you'll probably need the wikicode that is used to enter it, instead of the finished HTML.

Also if you want to get all of the data, you'll probably want to transfer it in the most efficient way that's possible. The wikipedia.org servers need to do quite a bit of work to convert the wikicode into html. That's time consuming both for you and for the wikipedia.org servers, so simply spidering all pages is not the way to go.

To access any article in XML, one at a time, access Special:Export/Title of the article.

Read more about this at Special:Export.

Please be aware that live mirrors of Wikipedia that are dynamically loaded from the Wikimedia servers are prohibited. Please see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks.

[edit] Please do not use a web crawler

Please do not use a web crawler to download large numbers of articles. Aggressive crawling of the server can cause a dramatic slow-down of Wikipedia.

[edit] Sample blocked crawler email

IP address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn was retrieving up to 50 pages per second from wikipedia.org addresses. Robots.txt has a rate limit of one per second set using the Crawl-delay setting. Please respect that setting. If you must exceed it a little, do so only during the least busy times shown in our site load graphs at http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm. It's worth noting that to crawl the whole site at one hit per second will take several weeks. The originating IP is now blocked or will be shortly. Please contact us if you want it unblocked. Please don't try to circumvent it - we'll just block your whole IP range.
If you want information on how to get our content more efficiently, we offer a variety of methods, including weekly database dumps which you can load into MySQL and crawl locally at any rate you find convenient. Tools are also available which will do that for you as often as you like once you have the infrastructure in place. More details are available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download.
Instead of an email reply you may prefer to visit #mediawiki at irc.freenode.net to discuss your options with our team.

Note that the robots.txt currently has a commented out Crawl-delay:

 ## *at least* 1 second please. preferably more :D
 ## we're disabling this experimentally 11-09-2006
 #Crawl-delay: 1

Please be sure to use an intelligent non-zero delay regardless.

[edit] Doing SQL queries on the current database dump

You can do SQL queries on the current database dump (as a replacement for the disabled Special:Asksql page).

[edit] Database schema

[edit] SQL schema

See also: mw:Manual:Database layout

The sql file used to initialize a MediaWiki database can be found here.

[edit] XML schema

The XML schema for each dump is defined at the top of the file.

[edit] Help parsing dumps for use in scripts

[edit] Help importing dumps into MySQL

See:

[edit] Static HTML tree dumps for mirroring or CD distribution

MediaWiki 1.5 includes routines to dump a wiki to HTML, rendering the HTML with the same parser used on a live wiki. As the following page states, putting one of these dumps on the web unmodified will constitute a trademark violation. They are intended for private viewing in an intranet or desktop installation.


See also:


[edit] Kiwix

Screenshot of the version 0.9 (screencast)
Screenshot of the Kiwix internal library

Kiwix is an offline reader for web content which runs on Windows, Mac OSX and GNU/Linux. It's especially thought to make Wikipedia available offline. This is done by reading the content of the project stored in a file format ZIM, a high compressed open format with additional meta-data.

  • Pure ZIM reader
  • case and diacritics insensitive full text search engine
  • Bookmarks & Notes
  • kiwix-serve: ZIM HTTP server
  • PDF/HTML export
  • Multilingual (User interface localised in more than 80 languages)
  • Search suggestions
  • Zim index capacity
  • Support for MacOSX / Linux / Windows
  • DVD/USB launcher for Windows (autorun)
  • Tabs
  • Integrated content manager/downloader
See also

[edit] Okawix

Provides Wikipedia pages with images.

[edit] Aard Dictionary

Offline wikipedia reader. No images.

[edit] Dynamic HTML generation from a local XML database dump

Instead of converting a database dump file to many pieces of static HTML, one can also use a dynamic HTML generator. Browsing a wiki page is just like browsing a Wiki site, but the content is fetched and converted from a local dump file upon request from the browser.

[edit] Offline wikipedia reader

(for Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, and other Unices)

The offline-wikipedia project provides a very effective way to get an offline version of wikipedia. It uses entirely free software. Packages are available for Ubuntu and soon for other Linux distributions.

[edit] Main features

  1. Very fast searching
  2. Keyword (actually, title words) based searching
  3. Search produces multiple possible articles: you can choose amongst them
  4. LaTEX based rendering for mathematical formulae
  5. Minimal space requirements: the original .bz2 file plus the index
  6. Very fast installation (a matter of hours) compared to loading the dump into MySQL

[edit] WikiFilter

WikiFilter is a program which allows you to browse over 100 dump files without visiting a Wiki site.

[edit] WikiFilter system requirements

  • A recent Windows version (WinXP is fine; Win98 and WinME won't work because they don't have NTFS support)
  • A fair bit of hard drive space (To install you will need about 12 - 15 Gigabytes; afterwards you will only need about 10 Gigabytes)

[edit] How to set up WikiFilter

  1. Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download.
  2. Download XAMPPLITE from [2] (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work). Make sure to pick the file whose filename ends with .exe
  3. Install/extract it to C:\XAMPPLITE.
  4. Download WikiFilter 2.3 from this site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wikifilter. You will have a choice of files to download, so make sure that you pick the 2.3 version. Extract it to C:\WIKIFILTER.
  5. Copy the WikiFilter.so into your C:\XAMPPLITE\apache\modules folder.
  6. Edit your C:\xampplite\apache\conf\httpd.conf file, and add the following line:
    • LoadModule WikiFilter_module "C:/XAMPPLITE/apache/modules/WikiFilter.so"
  7. When your Wikipedia file has finished downloading, uncompress it into your C:\WIKIFILTER folder. (I used WinRAR http://www.rarlab.com/ demo version - BitZipper http://www.bitzipper.com/winrar.html works well too.)
  8. Run WikiFilter (WikiIndex.exe), and go to your C:\WIKIFILTER folder, and drag and drop the XML file into the window, click Load, then Start.
  9. After it finishes, exit the window, and go to your C:\XAMPPLITE folder. Run the setup_xampp.bat file to configure xampp.
  10. When you finish with that, run the Xampp-Control.exe file, and start apache.
  11. Browse to http://localhost/wiki and see if it works
    • If it doesn't work, see the forums.

[edit] WikiTaxi

WikiTaxi is an offline-reader for wikis in MediaWiki format. It enables users to search and browse popular wikis like Wikipedia, Wikiquote, or WikiNews, without being connected to the Internet. WikiTaxi works well with different languages like English, German, Turkish, and others but has a problem with right-to-left language scripts.

[edit] WikiTaxi system requirements

  • Any Windows version starting from Windows 95 or later. Large File support (greater than 4 GB) for the huge wikis (English only at the time of this writing).
  • It also works on Linux with Wine.
  • 16 MB RAM minimum for the WikiTaxi reader, 128 MB recommended for the importer (more for speed).
  • Storage space for the WikiTaxi database. This requires about 11.7 GiB for the English Wikipedia (as of 5 April 2011), 2 GB for German, less for other Wikis. These figures are likely to grow in the future.

[edit] WikiTaxi usage

  1. Download WikiTaxi and extract to an empty folder. No installation is otherwise required.
  2. Download the XML database dump (*.xml.bz2) of your favorite wiki.
  3. Run WikiTaxi_Importer.exe to import the database dump into a WikiTaxi database. The importer takes care to uncompress the dump as it imports, so make sure to save your drive space and do not uncompress beforehand.
  4. When the import is finished, start up WikiTaxi.exe and open the generated database file. You can start searching, browsing, and reading immediately.
  5. After a successful import, the XML dump file is no longer needed and can be deleted to reclaim disk space.
  6. To update an offline Wiki for WikiTaxi, download and import a more recent database dump.

For WikiTaxi reading, only two files are required: WikiTaxi.exe and the .taxi database. Copy them to any storage device (memory stick or memory card) or burn them to a CD or DVD and take your Wikipedia with you wherever you go!

[edit] BzReader and MzReader (for Windows)

BzReader is an offline Wikipedia reader with fast search capabilities. It renders the Wiki text into HTML and doesn't need to decompress the database. Requires Microsoft .NET framework 2.0.

MzReader by Mun206 works with (though is not affiliated with) BzReader, and allows further rendering of wikicode into better HTML, including an interpretation of the monobook skin. It aims to make pages more readable. Requires Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime, which is not supplied with the download. Also requires Inet Control and Internet Controls (Internet Explorer 6 ActiveX), which are packaged with the download.

[edit] EPWING

Offline Wikipedia database in EPWING dictionary format, which is common in Japan, can be read including images and other some rendering limitations for tables, on any systems where a reader is available. There are many free and commercial readers for Windows/Mobile, MacOSX/iOS (Mac, iPhone, iPad), Android, Unix/Linux/BSD, DOS, and Java-based browser applications.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Large File Support in Linux
  2. ^ Android 2.2 and before used YAFFS file system; December 14, 2010.

[edit] External links

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