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Evopedia is an offline Wikipedia viewer. It allows to search for articles based on their title or the geographic location on a map. If you are online, even images are displayed.
Evopedia is an offline Wikipedia viewer. It allows to search for articles based on their title or the geographic location on a map. If you are online, even images are displayed.


Apart from the software you also need to download a specially prepared dump of the articles available here. The German Wikipedia, for example, compresses to about 2 GB.
Apart from the software you also need to download a specially prepared dump of the articles available here.


== Dumps ==
== Dumps ==


Dumps will be available shortly.
Dumping Wikipedia is a very time-consuming task. Please be patient or help creating the dumps.
 
Available dumps:
* [http://vitels.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/dumps/de/wikipedia_de_2009-12-23.zip German Wikipedia], 2009-12-23 (1.5 GB) (some articles seem to be missing, but still almost complete and usable.)
 
== Dump Installation ==
 
Extract one (or more) of the .zip-Files to a directory on your device and select it from within evopedia. The dump that is used can be changed using the (second) link at the top-left of the search screen.
 
== Creating a Wikipedia Dump ==
 
to be written

Revision as of 16:15, 12 January 2010

Evopedia is an offline Wikipedia viewer. It allows to search for articles based on their title or the geographic location on a map. If you are online, even images are displayed.

Apart from the software you also need to download a specially prepared dump of the articles available here.

Dumps

Dumping Wikipedia is a very time-consuming task. Please be patient or help creating the dumps.

Available dumps:

  • German Wikipedia, 2009-12-23 (1.5 GB) (some articles seem to be missing, but still almost complete and usable.)

Dump Installation

Extract one (or more) of the .zip-Files to a directory on your device and select it from within evopedia. The dump that is used can be changed using the (second) link at the top-left of the search screen.

Creating a Wikipedia Dump

to be written