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Kiwix, Wikipedia offline. Not a game but definitely a fun app to pass time when you don't have internet access. Press the dice for a random page.
Not OP, but they support a database download. More useful on your phone, there is, of course, an app for that
Je viens de tester sur mon téléphone et c'est assez laborieux, en tout cas pas moyen d'accéder aux articles sauvegardés en mode avion..
Tu peux peut-être regarder une autre application, comme kiwi : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile&hl=fr
This is a bit extreme but I chose to download the entire Wiktionary as an offline .zim file (~1.5 GB on my SD card) and read it with Kiwix.
There's a few apps that download wikipedia for offline reading. For example:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile&hl=en
There's also official app, but it focuses less on offline reading:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en
Yeah i have an app that allows you to instal the entirety of Wikipedia.com and its abou 62 Gigabytes
Edit: 60.1 Gigs only English with pictures but i think it's compressed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
there are other reasons for offline mirroring huge info dumps.
for example regional blocking by oppressive governments *caugh* *china russia turkey* *caugh*
I had a '08 copy in iso format when it wasnt sure the foundation would survive, but right now i have no working copy and i need to rectify that. anyone an idea?
okay kiwix has an english 60.1gb dump with images / novids.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
Bulbapedia is the best!
You could use mediawiki to easily create an offline data file that can be used on all computer platforms.
Wikipedia does something similar with the Kiwix app.
edit:I see bulba does use mediawiki! Making a ZIM file and using Kiwix would bring cross-platform support with little effort.
you should get cheap android phone, don't connect it to anything, but install kiwix app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
and download ready-made kiwix wiki (depending on sd card size, you may choose small no-image version or full with-images version)
its a 60Gb compressed one with all the media.
I use it with kiwix. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile&hl=en
Edit:: This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Where_do_I_get_it?
I use dictionnaire de l'académie française. there are works that ported it to digital env. but as an android app, i use kiwix for looking up wiktionnaire. it is good but it can be misleading. and also using it is not like the others, in my opinion. you have to get familiar a bit to quickly use it. links: https://academie.atilf.fr https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
If you have room on your android device the app Kiwix can download wikipedia for you.
It's probably a bit late in Turkey but for anyone else wanting to get wikipedia forever, there is offline wikipedia on your phone with kiwix and these dumps : https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/
Kiwix lets you store the entirety of Wikipedia on local storage for offline reading. The article files are compressed using the 7zip algorithm (very efficient), so the text-only version of English Wikipedia is only about 16 GB (last I checked). They also have smaller, more specialized versions that take up less space (ex: featured articles or medical Wikipedia) as well as other languages.
If you do this, use BitTorrent to download the Wikipedia file and you'll get a much faster download. Also, if you put the file on a FAT32 formatted disk (such as an SD card), you'll need the split the file into chunks first. See the Kiwix documentation for instructions on how to do that. FAT32 is a widely used file system supported by most operating systems, but it's very antiquated and limits individual file sizes to 4GB.
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You really can these days. The entire English-language wikipedia with pictures fits in about 55GB. An interactive 3D starmap and catalog of stuff in the sky only takes a few hundred MB. Language files for offline translation of languages with Microsoft Translate are about 220MB each, or about five languages per gigabyte that you can have auto-translated by taking pictures of text or speaking out loud. HERE maps does google-maps-style navigation with offline maps... and whole countries' worth of routable street maps are between a few hundred MB and a few GB each. Or you could do offline topographical maps for off-street navigation with something like Gaia GPS. I have a bunch of the Audobon plant and wildlife guides on mine as well. And a small library's worth of ebooks.
A super-encyclopedia, star map, atlas, and realtime translator. (The last was handled by fish in the book, but since no similarly capable fish seem to be available, we'll need our Guide to deal with that for us as well)
You can quite literally have a Hitchhikers' Guide (with bonus Babelfish capability) with a totally vanilla smartphone, a large microSD card, and a few hours to get everything downloaded.
If you want to go crazy yourself, the apps I use are:
Kiwix iTunes/Android: offline wikipedia dump reader
Microsoft Translator iTunes/Android: offline-capable realtime translation
HERE Maps iTunes/Android: offline google maps equivalent
Gaia GPS iTunes/Android: offline topographical maps and navigation
Star Walk 2 iTunes/Android: interactive star chart with offline catalog
Audobon Guides (too many to link): wildlife and plant identification
According to Wikipedia's download how-to page, it's roughly 14 GB of text compressed, and expands to over 58 GB when decompressed, when you include only current version of articles and no talk or user pages.
When I last tried to download it on Android, I remember trying to use Aard 2, but it seems like Kiwix might be the best option according to the how-to page. Within Kiwix, Wikipedia can be downloaded in English without pictures or videos as 34.8 GB, or with pictures but no videos as 78.1 GB. However, you can also download just "the best 50,000 Wikipedia articles" (don't ask me how they decided which ones are the best) in English, which is just 5.9 GB.
According to this, XOWA as well as a few other desktop applications support working off of the XML dump, but I think they require conversion to an internal format so I'm not sure they're meant for mobile. For Android, there's Kiwix and XOWA, but keep in mind they might require downloading a database again.
There is an Android app. It is easy to have the wikipedia on your phone.
You can get that.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile&hl=en
It's a reader for a downloaded wikipedia.
I don't have experience with it, but Kwix is an Android app listed on that page.
This is a rather useful thing: https://www.kiwix.org/ even there's an app for that: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile&hl=en
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Full Wikipedia on android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
There is android app to run wikipedia offline...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
Here's a link to the offline rpi wikipedia project -- Gozim.
For the less savvy, it's also downloadable via Kiwix . For example, here's the Android app and an iOS app.
Kwix can do it
Offline Wikipedia perhaps?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile&hl=en