Read Wikipedia Offline without the Need of Internet Connection!

Mrinmay Bhattacharjee | January 19, 2009 More


Yes! Now you can easily read Wikipedia Offline on your Computer without the need of an Internet Connection at all! The whole Wikipedia will reside on your Computer’s Hard Disk!

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This Post features a Simple Utility and some necessary Instructions for Reading Wikipedia Completely Offline!

Wikitaxi allows you to download Wikipedia on your computer. According to WikiTaxi Complete English version of Wikipedia can easily fit on a 8 GB Pen Drive!

Before you can actually use WikiTaxi, you must download your Wikipedia from the Internet and import it into a WikiTaxi database. This is necessary for offline browsing. Actually these are Wikipedia Backup’s also known as XML Dumps.

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You will get the links for these Dumps from the WikiTaxi Site itself. Also the Whole page of WikiTaxi Successfully explains How to Import these Wikipedia Dumps and Use WikiTaxi for viewing Wikipedia Offline.

Category: Offbeat, Software, Web

Comments (1)

  1. Quiz_Master says:

    Nice…. Tested with that 25 MB Dump file (though the content in it was not THAT useful.).

    When I first read title of post I thought it’s about that age old Webaroo Wikipedia pack.

    The tool WikiTaxi really rocks. :)