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From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application

Summary

XOWA is the 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 4.7+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
  • Show images within an article. Access 3.7+ million images using the offline image databases.
  • Set up over 800+ other wikis including:
  • Update your wiki whenever you want, using Wikimedia's database backups.
  • 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, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi, and Android
  • 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.

Recent News

2016-04-16 XOWA app released on Google Play
2016-04-04 French Wikipedia 2016-03 update released
2016-03-20 English Wikipedia 2016-03 update released
2016-02-21 English Wikipedia 2016-02 update released
2016-02-06 English wikis released
2016-01-17 Android app beta released
2015-12-27 Russian wiki updates released
2015-12-20 Englis Wikipedia 2015-12 updates released
2015-12-13 Arabic wiki updates released
2015-12-07 Italian wiki updates released
2015-11-29 Dutch and Latin wiki updates released
2015-11-22 French, Lithuanian, Limburgish, Estonian, Latvian, Nynorsk, and Cebuano wiki updates released
2015-11-15 Slovak, Slovenian, Galician and Waray-Waray wiki updates released
2015-11-08 Danish, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian and Estonian wiki updates released
2015-11-02 English Wikipedia, Hebrew, Norwegian and Vietnamese wiki updates released
2015-10-18 Serbian, Bulgarian and Malay wiki updates released

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