- #Save a wiki offline archive
- #Save a wiki offline android
- #Save a wiki offline Pc
- #Save a wiki offline Offline
- #Save a wiki offline download
The error is always the same, just the point in processing the pages where it occurs is Pretty much like said - having the Wiki at hand offline when you are required to do offline edits due to shortage of mobile data (or lack of coverage) is very helpful.
#Save a wiki offline Pc
I can, however, confirm that the mwoffliner in the ZIMFarm fails with the same error as a dock instace that runs on my PC - just at slightly different pages - this can also be seen in the different tries from ZIMFarm. Thanks!Įdit: If it's decided to not being a workable solution, we should check if we can provide a way to access to the Wiki's API for Kiwix's farm to create the offline version themselves reliable, because currently (for three months now) the creation fails due to API I will get over to the mwoffliner Repo and see if I can get any meaningful information as to what exactly goes wrong. I'd be very happy to hear everyone's thoughts on my idea. I'm therefore proposing to dedicate a service within the OSM infrastructure to regularly (once a week) creating an offline version of the wiki and making it available for download. This should be possible in the OSM server infrastructure as well.Īfter talking to a co-founder of Kiwix, they would be more than willing to save a copy of the OSM Wiki in their farm for their users to access when it was created "somewhere else" (i.e. It seems they use a docker-version of mwoffliner to get the copy going. Their configuration for the OSM wiki can be seen here. zim-files takes time and produces data transfer which would not be necessary if it would be created with bot-access to the API on the same machine as the wiki and provided alongside the XML-dump on /dump.
#Save a wiki offline android
zim-file that can be opened with the readers they provide for Windows, MacOS, *UX, and Android - and I could really work with that.Ĭreating said. They could very easily clog up all of the storage on an average cellphone.In the German-speaking Telegram group (OSM_de) a user asked, if there was an offline version of the wiki because he didn't have mobile data packages on his phone.Īfter some digging, I found out that Kiwix (non-profit, open source software) had a March 2021 version on the OSM Wiki in their ZIMFarm as a.
#Save a wiki offline download
The user interface varies a bit between versions, but fortunately, the user interface is straightforward on all of them: Search for Wikipedia, find the archives for the text and pictures, and then download them. Kiwix supports most of the operating systems out there. That’s it - you now have Wikipedia downloaded to your device! Kiwix on Other Operating Systems The process will be the same if you download all of Wikipedia.
#Save a wiki offline archive
Note: This example used the “Top 100 Wikipedia Articles” archive instead of the complete Wikipedia archive to save on space and time. Click “Open” on the right-hand side to view them. It’ll probably be longer.Īfter the download is finished, click on “Local Files” on the left side of the window just below “All Files ” you’ll see the stuff you just downloaded. You’ll have to wait a bit - even with a gigabit internet connection, you’re still looking at a minimum of about 20 minutes for the entire thing to download. There will be a progress indicator that appears. Once you’re back to the list of available files, download the archives by clicking “Download” on the right-hand side. The settings menu is pretty straightforward - click “Browse” to change where the files will be stored on your device, then close the Settings tab by clicking the “X.” If you want to change your download directory, click on the three dots in the top right corner and click “Settings,” or hit the F12 key.
Note the size of the files involved - they’re pretty large. Kiwix displays the size of the archive, the date it was last updated, and the content type. One contains the text, the other contains the pictures. All of Wikipedia is available as two files. You can either scroll through the list until you find what you want, or use the search function. There are a fair amount of Wikis (including Wikipedia) available already through Kiwix. You could also click “Browse by Language,” if you’d like to find Wikis written in a particular language. Click “All Files” in the top left corner to display a complete list of available content. When the program launches, it’ll display anything you already have downloaded. The user interface is pretty straightforward.