Extension:Offline

Overview
This extension provides an offline viewing mode for Wikipedia dumps, or any other wiki, on your private Mediawiki server.

See the Extension:Offline/Wiki project page, or the old project page for wikipedia-offline-patch.

Be aware that you will need a Wikipedia dump and the corresponding index, see "Installing" for tips on how to configure your data.

For a recent English, compressed backup of all article text (7.4GB, not including your index): For example, visit enwiki/20111201/ and download enwiki/20111201/enwiki-20111201-pages-articles.xml.bz2 A smaller database for testing (or if you speak Tagalog) can be found here, with indexes built already: http://wikipedia-offline-patch.googlecode.com/files/wiki-splits-tl.zip

or, browse backup dumps from many other languages and wiki projects: backup-index.html The project page has binary distributions for macos, windows, and linux, which include a webserver and supporting libraries. It also explains how to build and run the indexer. http://code.google.com/p/wikipedia-offline-patch

There is an unusual dependency: the Xapian indexing library and its PHP bindings. Also, you will have to configure some type of revision_text caching by setting $wgRevisionCacheExpiry and $wgCacheType. memcached is a popular one.

User rights
= Acknowledgements = The current maintainer is Adam Wight, who can be reached at adamw on ludd.net.

Thanassis Tsiodras has a great page explaining how to build an offline wikipedia from simple tools you might find around the house.

Wikipedia Offline Client was the starting point of the code here.

MediaWiki developers contributed valuable insight.

This software and its source code are licensed as GPL.