{"id":18872,"date":"2013-11-27T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18872"},"modified":"2013-11-27T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T09:35:08","slug":"local-copy-of-the-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/27\/local-copy-of-the-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Local copy of the Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Slashdot<\/a> tells that there is a way to have a local copy of Wikipedia on your computer:<\/p>\n

Want your own copy of English Wikipedia with images? Got 100 GB of disk space? Then open-source app\u00a0XOWA<\/a>\u00a0may be of interest to you. The project released torrents yesterday for the 2013-11-04 version of English Wikipedia. There’s 100 GB of sqlite databases containing 13.9 million pages, and 3.7 million images \u2014 readable from any Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is, of course, a frozen in time version of Wikipedia – without any further updates or edits, but it might be quite handy for those places where Internet is not common or stable. \u00a0Another use for this would be as a source of data for parsing tools or linguistic analysis, etc – working with local copy is much faster than fetching it page by page from the online.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Slashdot tells that there is a way to have a local copy of Wikipedia on your computer: Want your own copy of English Wikipedia with images? Got 100 GB of disk space? Then open-source app\u00a0XOWA\u00a0may be of interest to you. The project released torrents yesterday for the 2013-11-04 version of English Wikipedia. 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