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I wanted to know if anyone has any experience creating an offline english full wikipedia mirror. I'll be traveling to Ethiopia in February to help setup a community clinic and computer lab. This site has no internet connection and is not likely to acquire one. I'd like to have a nas device or small server setup to host all of the english content on this site and then periodically have someone update the site when they can get an internet connection. There will be about 40 computers/tablets in the lab accessing it via wireless. Specs on the device I'm looking at are below. Should this be sufficient to host wikipedia for 40 computers? Mindspeed Comcerto 2000 (M86261G-12) dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 Communication Processor running at 650 MHz. The Gigabit Ethernet port is a Broadcom BCM54612E Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver. Other components include 256 MB of Samsung K4B2G1646E DDR3 RAM and 512 KB of Winbound 25X40CL flash. The drive is a WD Red 2 TB (WD20EFRX).

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

I think if you were serving up a static copy of Wikipedia -- all pre-rendered pages -- then the CPU wouldn't have a problem. I'm not sure you could run a copy of MediaWiki and expect it to handle 40 clients with that kind of power.

Also, which Wikipedia? The English one or one? The dumps from amwiki are smaller than enwiki ones.

If you have time, I'd try to take the Amharic wiki (if you were going to use that one) and try to create static pages for it.

Alternately, have a look at Kiwix -- you may be able to put a copy on each of the 40 computers.

You can download a complete copy of Wikipedia (all main namespace articles with pictures) here (this is directly usable on Windows/Linux, just unzip the file and run Kiwix):

• https://download.kiwix.org/portable/wikipedia_en_all.zip.torrent
• https://download.kiwix.org/portable/wikipedia_am_all.zip.torrent

Thanks for the feedback! I'll give it a go and let you know how it went.