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Re: local copy of wikipedia

From: Ivan Glushkov <glushkov(at)mail.desy.de>
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 04:38:11 EST

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Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:44:43 +0000 (UTC)
> Angie NegrÃ³nRolÃ³n <qpe-g452@myamail.com> wrote:
>

>> Ivan Glushkov  mail.desy.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to have wikipedia locally on my debian laptop. 
>>>
>>> Which way of installing wikipedia would take the least disk space?
>>> What software I need to install/configure/run to have a local copy with
>>> the full search functionality?
>>
>>
>> 
http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
>>
>>

>
> You can use wget to create an offline mirror of the websites...there are examples in the wget man page. You can set how deep you want wget to retrieve the links..
>

I guess that's exactly what the people from wikipedia would _not_ like to be done:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Please_do_not_use_a_web_crawler

Ivan

> amit
>
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