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Games, visualizations, interactives and other weird stuff. Hi! I'm Neal. This is where I make stuff on the web. Obligatory links:
- Conquer The World
How many countries have you visited?
- Spend Bill Gates
Spend Bill Gates' Money $100,000,000,000. Big Mac
- Paper
You have a piece of paper. It is 0.1mm thick. Unfold Fold...
- Baby Map
A map visualization of where babies are being born.
- Life Checklist
A checklist for the average human life. How many items have...
- The Deep Sea
An interactive page that lets you scroll down the ocean....
- Who Was Alive
See which historical figures were alive at the same time.
- Universe Forecast
See what the future of the universe will look like. Scroll...
- Conquer The World
Wikipedia themselves support this and there's a variety of tools and torrents available to download compressed version. You can even download the entire dump to a flash drive as long as it's ex-fat format.
Aug 26, 2017 · Wikipedia creates a download of its database on a regular basis that is literally just sitting there for you to download it. The site file is available to anyone who wants it, and it can be...
- You'll Need Some Disk Space
- Download Wikipedia Using Kiwix
- Download Wikipedia Using XOWA
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If you want to download and install your own local version of Wikipedia, you should know that you will need some extra disk space: A lot of extra disk space, especially if you want to have images as well. You will need about 50 gigabytes for a text-only copy, and another 100 gigabytes or so if you want all of the images. Luckily storage is cheaper than it ever has been --- it is pretty easy to buy storage for less than 20 dollars a terabyte now.
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Kiwix is an open-source application that allows you to download all of Wikipedia, including images, with just a few clicks. It can also download almost any wiki-based website, and supports a tool to grab other websites you might want to save offline. Kiwix runs on Windows, MacOS, most any Linux distribution, Android, and iOS.
XOWA should work on almost any system you have --- Windows, macOS, Linux, and even Android. There is no iPhone or iPad client. The one prerequisite for using XOWA is that you have to install and run Java.
To begin, go to XOWA's download page and grab the binary that suits your Java installation. If you're not sure which version you're using, it is pretty easy to check. If you have the 32-bit version of Java installed on your 64-bit Windows PC, and you try to run the 64-bit XOWA, you'll receive an error message because the application doesn't match the Java version.
The surest way around this then is to make sure your Java installation matches your OS version and then download the appropriate XOWA version. If you use macOS, then it doesn't matter.
We're going to show you how to perform this procedure on a Windows machine. Extraction of the binary files will be different on each operating system, but once XOWA is up and running, it will be the same.
Double-click on the XOWA ZIP file and extract the files somewhere on your hard drive. Then, double-click "xowa.exe" to get started.
If your OS employs any kind of executable protection, such as Windows does with SmartScreen, you won't be able to run XOWA until you grant it permission to do so. On Windows, you need to click "More Info" on the following message.
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Apr 23, 2013 · Having access to nearly all of Wikipedia's articles offline. There are a couple of ways you could do this, and I'll be showing you how to do it with ZIM files via Kiwix (Mac, Windows, Linux), by downloading XML files directly from Wikipedia, and reading XML files with WikiTaxi (Windows).
Jun 17, 2022 · Download the Kiwix offline browser. Clicked the 46GB file that contains all of English Wikipedia. On the site, it’s called “wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim” and it’s 89GB.
Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia. Display 5.2+ million articles in full HTML formatting. Show images within an article. Access 3.7+ million images using the offline image databases. Works with any Wikimedia wiki, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikivoyage (also some non-wmf dumps)
