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|[https://apps.apple.com/app/minipedia-offline-wiki-wikipedia-reader/id473512078?mt=8 Minipedia – Offline Wiki]

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| Contains the 100,000 most read articles; multilanguage support: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish

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===<span lang="ar" dir="rtl">Android</span> apps ===

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* [https://play.google.com/store/search?q=wikipedia&c=apps&so=1 See all "Wikipedia" apps in the Google Play Store]

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** [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nebulium.wiki EveryWiki for Android]

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** [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Kiwix] Offline viewer

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| [https://github.com/nsh07/WikiReader WikiReader]

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**| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nebulium.wiki EveryWiki for Android]

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**| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Kiwix] Offline viewer]

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| See details in offline section

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| [[File:Safari-icon-1024.png|24px]] Safari 12+-17.3

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|{{partial}}<ref group="media-notes" name="safari">Video playback is only supported with Javascript decoding, which can be a bit slow. Unfortunately Apple doesdid not support native hardware based decoding of VP8 and/or VP9, the video codecs which [[MediaWiki]] software uses and supports.</ref>

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| [[File:Safari-icon-1024.png|24px]] Safari 17.4+

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|{{partial}}<ref group="media-notes" name="safari">Video playback is only supported with Javascript decoding, which can be a bit slow. Unfortunately Apple does not support native hardware based decoding of VP8 and/or VP9, the video codecs which [[MediaWiki]] software uses and supports.</ref>

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|[[File:Internet Explorer 10+11 logo.svg|24px]] IE 9-11 (Windows 7/8/8.1/10)

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Offline access to English Wikipedia can be done in many ways.

The '''[[Kiwix]]''' ([https://blog.wikimediakiwix.org/2012/04/09/download-the-text-of-the-entire-english-wikipedia/ OpenZIMofficial formatwebsite]''') uses the free [[KiwixZIM (file format)|openZIM]] softwareformat availableto inview theWikipedia [[Microsoftoffline. Store]],Apps are available on '''[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Google Play]''', and '''[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563?mt=8 Apple's iOS App Store]''', toand viewmany Wikipedia offlineothers. AAs serieswell ofas "customizedthe apps"complete haveEnglish alsoWikipedia, beenit released,is ofpossible to download whichother content such as [[Medical Wikipedia]] and [[PhET]] simulations are the two largest.

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The [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Version 1.0 Editorial Team]] works on publishing sets of Wikipedia articles in print, CD, DVD, or some combination thereof. In 2008, SOS Children published a [[Wikipedia CD Selection]] for schools, which may be viewed at '''[http://schools-wikipedia.org/ schools-wikipedia.org],''' and is available for free download via '''[http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/archive/2008/10/2008-wikipedia-for-schools the charity's website].'''

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Try one of the other external applications listed below which allow you to download a copy of Wikipedia's database and then view, search, and browse it offline.

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* WikiTaxi (for Windows): ([[Wikipedia:Database download#WikiTaxi (for Windows)|instructions]])

;Database dumps

;Raw data dump

EnglishThe Wikipedia dumps in SQL and XML: {{URL|//dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/}} and the [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22enwiki%22%20AND%20subject%3A%22data%20dumps%22%20AND%20collection%3A%22wikimediadownloads%22 Internet Archive]. The database can be downloaded [[Wikipedia:Database download|here]], but you will need to set up a [[web server]], [[PHP]], [[MySQL]] and our wiki software, [[mw:|MediaWiki]], to make use of it. English Wikipedia dumps in SQL and XML: {{URL|//dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/}}, [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22enwiki%22%20AND%20subject%3A%22data%20dumps%22%20AND%20collection%3A%22wikimediadownloads%22 Internet Archive], [[m:Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia|BitTorrents]].

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[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia Download here] the data dump using a BitTorrent client.

==Engineering and support ==