NEW! Download Wiktionary Offline

For older versions of OS X, there is a method available here Dictionary.app: how to change from wikipedia.org to wiktionary.org. But in the latest system, there are only one field available, as mentioned in the last post.

Senior Program Manager Anne Gomez leads the New Readers initiative, where she works on ways to better understand barriers that prevent people around the world from accessing information online. One of her areas of interest is offline access, as she works with the New Readers team to improve the way people who have limited or infrequent access to the Internet can access free and open knowledge.

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Smartphones have transformed the way people can access the internet, and recently you started building packaged apps for Wikimed. How has this changed the landscape and the way you view of offline access? How do you see these devices impacting the future of educational resources?

That said, there are lots of legitimate use for video, and in general we try to stay away from editorial discussions: we only want to focus on building the best technology. And the ZIM format that Kiwix relies on is anyway content-agnostic: this means that you can use it to store whatever content you like. We are actually already distributing dozens of offline files with videos embedded in them.

XOWA is a free, open-source offline Wikipedia app that allows a user to have their own copy of a wiki on their hard-drive -- without any internet connection. It works with the latest versions of over 820 database dumps[1] including wikis like English Wikipedia, French Wiktionary, German Wikisource, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and more.

As an offline reader, it is especially thought to make Wikipedia available offline, but technically any kind of web content can be stored into a ZIM file (a highly compressed open format) and then read by the app: there are currently several hundred different contents available in more than 100 languages, from Wikipedia, Wikiquote, the Wiktionary to TED conferences, Gutenberg library, Stackexchange and many others.

Wikimed is a free android app that collates all medicine-related articles from Wikipedia and makes them available offline. It is currently available in English, French, Arabic, Farsi, German, Spanish, Chinese, Odia, and Portuguese. You can download it here.

The followup of the project aims to use Wikipedia in the training program of the prisoners. The use of Wikipedia in the classes, the organization of general culture contests, and even the training of new Wikipedia editors. The partnership between Wikimedia CH and the direction of the prison aims to be durable. Wikimedia CH installed the Kiwix files and trained the IT team of the prison, who can now upload the software for every new prisoner who requests. Detention Centers for minors are excluded from this program in Switzerland as they get access to the Internet and don't have the need to access Wikipedia offline.

In 2014, WMCH started to collaborate with the Swiss Insitute for Education in Detention Centers to expand the coverage of Wikipedia offline in prisons all over Switzerland.As of May 2014, all prisons in the German-speaking part of Switzerland have access to Wikipedia offline, thanks to the Swiss Institute for Education in Detention Centers.

Canada, Germany, the US, France, Belgium and Italy (jail in Pavia, where a Kiwix server runs in a dedicated computer room, led by ) also have similar projects in prisons that involve Wikipedia offline.

At that time in France, broadband access was not [in widespread use], in particular in the countryside, where I'm from. A few projects had already failed to bring Wikipedia on CD/DVD, and I thought [offline Wikipedia] could be something useful and doable. This is how I started. As far as I remember, I did not have strong global thoughts about poverty, the digital divide, and censorship at that time.

Fun fact: Renaud, the co-founder of Kiwix, had pretty different reasons to start a Wikipedia offline project. He was living in Mali at the time and still is. Without knowing each other, we started in parallel, almost similar solutions, at the same time, and using the same technologies. We merged our projects shortly afterward, after meeting at FOSDEM.

Finally a matter of debate. Why are there no images? Is this because the dump failed to parse completely or are these just omitted? In the latter case this would involve an additional download from wikimedia to make this entire idea of an offline version usable. To be honest I find the entire process to be far too hard for a encyclopedia that promotes openness.

Note: To use gnome-dictionary offline, you should first install a dictionary server and the desired databases (the installation of dictd and some databases are shown in option (I) above.)

After installing gnome-dictionary, a dictionary server (e.g. dictd) and the databases (e.g. dict-wn, dict-gcide) you'll have to configure so that it looks up the locally installed server. To do this, start gnome-dictionary and from the menu navigate to Edit -> Preferences. In the Dictionary Preferences window, click Add button, then in Add Dictionary Source add the information about your local dictionary server; add the Description (like dictd), the Hostname - localhost (or some other in your local network), the Port number to 2628 (2628 is the default as specified in the DICT Protocol RFC.excerpt from dictd documentation) and hit the Add button. Then in Dictionary Preferences window, select dictd radio button and close the prefs window. Now you should be able to use it offline.

Kiwix itself is a GPLv3-licensed, standalone graphical applicationthat most closely resembles a "help browser" or e-book reader. Thecontent displayed is HTML, of course, but the user interface islimited to the content installed in the local "library." Users cansearch for new ZIM content from within the application as well ascheck for updates to the installed files.Interestingly enough, there are many more ZIM archives listedwithin Kiwix's available-files browser than there are listed on theproject's web site; why any particular offering is listed in theapplication is not clear, since some of the options appear to bepersonal vanity-publishing works. Searching and browsing installedarchives is simple and fast; type-ahead search suggestions areavailable and one can bookmark individual pages. There are alsobuilt-in tools for checking the integrity of downloaded archives andexporting pages to PDF. XOWAIn broad strokes, XOWA offers much the same experience as Kiwix:one installs a browser-like standalone application (AGPL-licensed, inthis case), for whichindividual offline-site archives must be manually installed. LikeKiwix, XOWA can download and install content from its own, officialarchives. But while Kiwix archives contain indexed,pre-generated HTML, XOWA archives include XML from theoriginal database dumps (stored in SQLite files), which is thendynamically rendered into HTML whenever a new page is opened.In theory, the XML in the Wikipedia database dumps is theoriginal Wikimarkup of the articles, so it should be more compact than theequivalent rendered HTML. In practice, though, such a comparison isless simple. The latest Kiwix ZIM file for the English Wikipedia is42GB with images, 12GB without, whereas the latest XOWA releases are89.6GB with images and 14.6GB without. But XOWA also makes a point ofthe fact that in includes not only the basic articles, but also the"Category," "Portal," and "Help" namespaces, as well as multiple sizesof the included images.

When comparing the two approaches, it is also important to notethat XOWA is specifically designed for use with Wikimedia databasedumps, a choice that has both pros and cons. In the pro column,virtually any compatible database dump can be used with theapplication; XOWA offers Wikipedia for 30 languages and a much largerselection of the related sites (Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote,Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and Wikinews, which are bundledtogether for most languages). XOWA's releases also tend to be moreup-to-date; at present none is older than a few months, while some ofthe less-popular Kiwix archives are several years old.The downsides, though, start with the fact that onlyWikimedia-compatible content is supported. Thus, there is no ProjectGutenberg archive available, nor could your favorite Linux news sitegenerate a handy offline article archive should it feel compelled todo so. But perhaps more troubling is the fact that XOWA archives donot support full-text searching. Lookup by title is supported, butthat may not always be sufficient for research.

The browsing experience of the XOWA application is similar toKiwix; both HTML renderers use Mozilla's XULRunner. XOWA alsosupports bookmarking pages and library maintenance. XOWA gains apoint for allowing the user to seamlessly jump between installedwikis; a Wikipedia link to a Wiktionary page works automatically inXOWA, while a Kiwix user must return to the "library" screen andmanually open up a second archive in order to change sites.On the otherhand, XOWA does not support printing or PDF export, and there is anoticeable lag between clicking on a link and seeing the page load.The status bar at the bottom of the window is informative enough to indicate that the delay isdue to XOWA's JTidy-basedparser; it reports the loading of the page content as well as eachtemplate and navigation element used. The parser can also still tripup in its XML-to-HTML conversion. If one is concerned about theaccuracy of the conversion, of course, Kiwix's pre-generated HTMLoffers no guarantees either, but at least its results are static andwill not crash on an odd bit of Wiki-markup syntax.The archive wars continueUltimately, though, if the question is whether XOWA or Kiwix generatespages more like those one sees in the web browser from the liveWikimedia site, neither standalone application is perfect. But usersmay chafe at the very need to run a separate application to read Wikipediato begin with. Fortunately, both projects are also pursuing another option:serving up their content with an embedded web server, which permitsusers to access the offline archives from any browser they choose.XOWA's server can be started with: java -jar /xowa/xowa_linux.jar --app_mode http_server --http_server_port 8080Kiwix's server (which, like Kiwix, is written in C++) can be started from the command line with: kiwix-serve --port=8000 wikipedia.zimor launched from the application's "Tools" menu. A nice touch forthose experimenting with both is that Kiwix defaults to TCP port 8000,XOWA to port 8080. The XOWA project also offers a Firefox extensionthat directs xowa: URIs to the local XOWA web server process.Moving forward, it will be interesting to watch how both projectsare affected by changes to Wikimedia's infrastructure. The XOWAinternal documentation notes that Wikipedia is, at some point, planning toimplement diff-style database update releases in addition to its full-database dumps.Incremental updates are one of the factors that makes OpenStreetMap sousable in offline mode, and Wikipedia's lack of such updates is whatcontributes the most pain to Kiwix and XOWA usage: waiting for thosemulti-gigabyte downloads to finish. As unsatisfying as it may seem, neither application emerges as theclear winner for someone inspired to head off to a rustic cabin in themountains and read Wikipedia at length. At its most basic, thetrade-off would seem to be Kiwix's support for non-Wikimedia sites andits full-text search versus XOWA's cross-wiki link support and morepredictable update process. Either will likely serve the casual userwell. (Log in to post comments) Accessing Wikipedia offline Posted Jun 12, 2014 3:27 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] 17dc91bb1f