Comments on: How to Browse Wikipedia Offline/Locally?

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:32:24 +0000

Wikifilter can still do the other dumps (for example wikiquote, wiktionary) however it has some problem with english wikipedia, when writing the categories.

Wikifilter has not been updated for a long time, hopefully someone will fix it.

By: Cuong

Cuong — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:40:02 +0000

Confirmed. Wikifilter doesn't work with the latest dump file (tested with the dump file on 8/2/2007). There's no sign of patch or update from SourceForge.

However, there is alternative, which is install the static version.
You can get the static version at http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/.

This method is less elegant because it will produce large number of folders and files on your hard drive. Also the download size is relatively large due to duplicated HTML code in each file.

By: Alejandro Tejada

Alejandro Tejada — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:37:10 +0000

Hi,

Wikifilter works great with small xml
databases dumps, but produces an error
while indexing big xml dumps like the
most recent english wikipedia xml dump
that have almost 11 GB.

Look at this screenshot from the folder
where i put the xml dump and the Wikifilter
program:
http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/WikiFilter_Indexes.PNG
It seems that the index file is left
unfinished and after this, no page from
english Wikipedia loads fine.
This is commented in the SourceForge
messages in his website.

By the way, im using Microsoft IIS server.