Download Wikipedia for Offline Reading

Posted by Saad Hamid on October 26, 2008

Everyone loves reading articles on Wikipedia as they are free and easily accessible but what if you fall in a situation where you don't have access to the Internet and you want to access Wikipedia to reference one of your projects or assignments?

The Wikimedia Foundation has released an offline Wikipedia for Schools selection which carries articles on over 5500 topics and can be burned to a DVD for offline reading.

Notice that the 'Wikipedia for Schools' version is only recommended for use by students of age 8-18 as it only consists of topics relevant to their education, however in my future posts I will be sharing a tip to download a full offline-version of Wikipedia for offline reading.

Wikipedia for Schools is as big as 3GB in size and can be downloaded via BitTorrent.

Download Wikipedia for Schools DVD

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  • Actually, I think international phone books would be more useful. Wikipedia's strength is being dynamic.
  • Very interesting information. thanks :)
  • The Wikipedia only for a certain age group comes in 3 GB size, then one can assume how big the entire wikipedia is :)

    Btw thanks for the link, i would download now and let my readers know about it.
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