Wik2dict

wik2dict is a tool written in Python that converts MediaWiki SQL dumps into the DICT format. The script is available under the GNU General Public License. It is also capable of downloading Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikibooks SQL dumps.

Converting the English Wikipedia takes 1 hour with a P4 1.9 GHz processor.

Usage reports, bug reports and patches are welcome.

Unicode
There is support for Unicode, but it might sometimes lead to troubles. In wik2dict.py there's a list of Wikipedia's still using latin-1, and the rest is considered utf-8. Problems here might lead to either mangled characters or a crashing dict server.

Logs
wik2dict creates a log file for every conversion, in which you can find possible errors in the MediaWiki articles (or in wik2dict). Up to now it gives info about stuff like [[non-finished link].

Download

 * wik2dict download directory
 * wik2dict-0.3.4.tar.gz