Comments on: How to Browse Wikipedia Offline/Locally?

By: ulakasp

ulakasp — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:59:14 +0000

I setup the IIS 7.0 with ISAP Filter and ran wikifiler.exe to index the enwiki-20091218-pages-articels.xml file but i keep getting msg that there is not default document like index.html etc.
this is what i get
A default document is not configured for the requested URL, and directory browsing is not enabled on the server.
has anyone had this issue.

By: saadjaved

saadjaved — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:45:00 +0000

As mentioned by Alejandro Tejada
i tried converting 18.1GB enwiki-20081008-pages-articles.xml
and wikifilter2.3.exe is unable to convert it into art format properly at all... it gives output of 2 or 3 types of unfinshed art files...
whats the use of downloading such a huge file when wikiindex can not deal with it.. please fix this issue..
is there any sucssess story ?

By: Redhuan D. Oon

Redhuan D. Oon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:39:51 +0000

Hi,
I wonder if this is useful in the case of just wanting to archive my work in wikiversity, say i want to store just my topics for my students in offline mode.

Thanks for this resourceful site.

Redhuan

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.