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How To Use Wikipedia Offline (Today s Most Popular)

Wikipedia is a great encyclopaedia and many of you use it every day. But what if you don t have internet access, it is possible to use Wikipedia offline without internet connection ? Yes, it is. Here s how.

First of all, congratulations to Wikipedia Wikipedia is now 10 years old! Quite an achievement.

General Thoughts About Wikipedia and WikiTaxi (Skip For Download)

If you re on a business trip and you re reading a letter with many unknown terms, but you don t have an internet connection, you can use Wikitaxi to quickly check Wikipedia offline. There are many, many other situations where offline access to Wikipedia will turn out to be a life-saver.

Of course, there are many other offline encyclopaedias that you can use, but most encyclopaedia software is really expensive. Wikipedia might not always be the best choice, but to get a first clue it is definitely a handy choice. Also, keep in mind that not everything that you read on Wikipedia is true, in fact you should be highly suspicious when you re reading something on Wikipedia (everyone can edit it, so some people use it for their own agenda).

Wikipedia gets updated daily, so of course if you are researching a highly discussed or controversial topic you will have an already outdated article in your database, depending on when you last updated Wikitaxi.

How To Download Wikipedia For Offline Use

Important: There are many files on the dump sites, the file that you need is pages-articles.xml.bz

First, , then head over to and you can download the very simple wiki, which is a great choice if you are new to Wikitaxi, because it s so small (less than 100MB). The full Wikipedia download can be more than 100GB of data .

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