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Wikipedia offers free copies of all available content to interested users. These databases can be used for mirroring, personal use, informal backups, offline use or database queries (such as for Wikipedia:Maintenance).
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.
A complete copy of all Wikimedia wikis, in the form of wikitext source and metadata embedded in XML. A number of raw database tables in SQL form are also available. These snapshots are provided at the very least monthly and usually twice a month.
XOWA is the free, open-source application that lets you download Wikipedia to your computer. Access all of Wikipedia offline -- without an internet connection! Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia. Display 5.0+ million articles in full HTML formatting. Show images within an article.
There are several tools to help download media from Wikimedia Commons. A Java-based tool to download from categories. Several libraries/scripts exist in various languages: PHP — download all files in a category and its subcategories, and also save all pages names (files and others) to a text file for using with Special:Export.
I'm trying to find a comprehensive list of all images on wikipedia, which I can then filter down to the public domain ones. I've downloaded the SQL dumps from here: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/
The "Fair Use" media (low resolution copyrighted images such as poster, album art, etc.) for English Wikipedia is 162 GiB. We also have a lot of media on Wikimedia Commons, 153 TiB, mostly unused. Limiting to only what's necessary for English Wikipedia, you'll need to download 5.1 TiB from 4,525,268 non-multimedia files.
Since Wikipedia is open source, there are many ways to download the entire database listed here with instructions, including an SQL database, HTML dumps, and anywhere else you can download it, with slimmed down versions specifically to fit on a flash drive or a set of DVDs, or downloads without images/less popular pages in order to make the ...
With XOWA, you can download entire Wikipedia data dump files including the ability to also fetch images corresponding to the pages found in the wiki. It supports not only Wikipedia, but also other wikis like Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikisource.
So here are some methods for downloading Wikipedia with as little pain as possible using tools from the nonprofit Kiwix. Download the Kiwix offline browser. Clicked the 46GB file that contains...