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Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from [2] (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work).
1. Get the names of pages to export. [edit] Go to Special:Allpages and choose the desired namespace. Copy the list of page names to a text editor. Put all page names on separate lines. Prefix the namespace to the page names (e.g. 'Help:Contents'), unless the selected namespace is the main namespace. 2.
XML database. An XML database is a data persistence software system that allows data to be specified, and sometimes stored, in XML format. This data can be queried, transformed, exported and returned to a calling system. XML databases are a flavor of document-oriented databases which are in turn a category of NoSQL database.
Semi-protected edit request on 1 March 2023. 4 comments. Semi-protected edit request on 15 October 2023. How to use multistream? Download Wikipedia to PC offline. Wikipedia talk:Database download. This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Database download page. Put new text under old text.
Put the copy in folder C:\wiki (another drive letter is also possible, but wiki should not be a sub-folder) and do not use any file name extension. This way the links work. One inconvenient aspect is that you cannot open a file in a folder listing by clicking on it, because of the lack of a file name extension.
See Wikipedia:Database download. Note that downloading the database dumps is much preferred over trying to spider the entire site. Spidering the site will take you much longer, and puts a lot of load on the server (especially if you ignore our robots.txt and spider over billions of combinations of diffs and whatnot).
All you need is a web server like Apache, and then you can view a wiki page through your web browser, either in normal html format, or in the raw wikitext format. Rebuilding an index data-base is also reasonably fast. For example, the 3-GB English Wikipedia takes about 10 minutes on a Pentium4.
It looks as though this page was once at m:Meta:Database download (back when the Meta: namespace there was called Wikipedia: also)... but it's gone now. +sj + 05:38, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC) I don't think it was on Meta. Links on Meta to Wikipedia:Database download will lead to this page via a redirect from Database download. Angela. 07:20, 16 Jul ...