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Title: XOWA is a desktop application for reading and editing Wikipedia offline
Post by: Software Santa on December 25, 2013, 08:05:23 PM
XOWA is a desktop application for reading and editing Wikipedia offline

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/)


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Summary

XOWA is a free, open-source application that lets you download Wikipedia to your computer. Access all of Wikipedia offline -- without an internet connection!
 

Features
Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia.
  • Display 4.4+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
  • Show images within an article. Access 3.7+ million images using the offline image databases.
  • Set up over 660+ other wikis including:
    • English Wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/)
    • English Wikisource (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/)
    • English Wikiquote (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/)
    • English Wikivoyage (http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/)
    • Non-English wikis, such as
                      French Wiktionary (http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/), German Wikisource (http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/), Dutch Wikivoyage (http://nl.wikivoyage.org/wiki/)
    • Wikidata (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/)
    • Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/)
    • Wikispecies (http://wikispecies.wikimedia.org/)
    • ... and many more!
      • Update your wiki whenever you want, using Wikimedia's database backups (http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html).
      • Navigate between offline wikis. Click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and instantly view the page in Wiktionary.
      • Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors.
      • Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
      • Run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
      • View the HTML for any wiki page
      • Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box
      • Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages
      • Find a word on a page.
      • Access a history of viewed pages
      • Bookmark your favorite pages.
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    http://xowa.sourceforge.net (http://xowa.sourceforge.net)

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