How to Use Wikipedia Offline

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Friday, April 24, 2009

wiki logoIf you come to internet for your work and not increase your social networking profile only, then irrespective of your profession or nature of surfing, sure you encounter with Wikipedia at least once. While the popularity of Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia online - grew so much that even MSN Encarta had to close down for lack of buyers, one problem remains at the core. You will have to come to internet or have to have internet at your side to use it. What if I give you a solution that will help you have a portable version of Wikipedia which is light and absolutely portable regardless of the platform and computer.

WikiTaxi enables you to read, search, and browse Wikipedia offline. No Internet connection is needed, all pages are stored in a WikiTaxi database. Because Wikipedia is constantly growing, WikiTaxi uses compression to make sure that the database stays reasonably small. The huge English Wikipedia easily fits on a 8 GB memory stick.

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  1. WikiTaxi is multilingual, which means that you can use it for Wikipedias from different languages.
  2. It also works well with the dictionary and quotation Wikis, if you like.
  3. You can also save multiple Wikis to disk and use all of them with WikiTaxi. WikiTaxi is up to date.
  4. It works with the original Wikipedia database dumps, which are updated regularly every few weeks or so.
  5. If you feel that your offline Wikipedia is getting too old, you can come online to download a more recent version or just copy it from a friend.

Its really amazingly simple.

Read more about wikitaxi to get more information about installation. Do tell us how you liked it. But remember,

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