Saturday, October 9, 2010

How to: Download Wikipedia and Use Offline

wikipedia How to: Download Wikipedia and Use Offline
Wikipedia is the main source of information on the web, this is encyclopedia that knows about almost everything you know and comes really usefull for research work for colleges and projects even you can found information on many things which were gone decades ago such as paintings, artists and their bio’s sometimes their is no internet access and if you are a real reader then you will be interested in using wikipedia offline today i’ll tell you how you can download whole wikipedia and browse while no internet access.

All you have to do is to Download an extension for firefox for that first you have to be using Firefox download here after that you’ll be able to install extension for it, Then click here and download Zipedia firefox extension. Zipedia lets you download the database of wikipedia and then use it while you are not connected to internet or on the go if you have laptop and no internet access with.
When you are done with installing Zipedia extension for Firefox then go to Tools > Add-ons > Zipedia > Options then click on generate zip and then you’ll asked to download wikipedia dump files download them and give path in zipedia options after that you’ll be able to download article of you choice in your language for offline browsing.
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When you are done access wikipedia offline by writing wikipedia://wiki/ in firefox and you’ll be able to access wikipedia offline however the whole database of wikipedia weights 7 GBs in case you want to download each and every article, the file size is huge and might take sometime to download and put stress on your system when you browse offline.

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