Editing Encyclopedia:Database download (section)

==Static HTML tree dumps for mirroring or CD distribution==
MediaWiki 1.5 includes routines to dump a wiki to HTML, rendering the HTML with the same parser used on a live wiki. As the following page states, putting one of these dumps on the web unmodified will constitute a trademark violation. They are intended for private viewing in an intranet or desktop installation.

*If you want to draft a traditional website in Mediawiki and dump it to HTML format, you might want to try [https://barnesc.blogspot.com/2005/10/mw2html-export-mediawiki-to-static.html mw2html] by [[User:Connelly]].
*If you'd like to help develop dump-to-static HTML tools, please drop us a note on [[Wikipedia:Mailing lists|the developers' mailing list]].
*Static HTML dumps as of 2008 are available [//dumps.wikimedia.org/other/static_html_dumps/ here].

'''See also:'''
* [[mw:Alternative parsers]] lists some other not working options for getting static HTML dumps
* [[Wikipedia:Snapshots]]
* [[Wikipedia:TomeRaider database]]

===Kiwix===
[[File:Kiwix on Android.jpg|right|thumb|Kiwix on an Android tablet]]
[[Kiwix]] is by far the largest offline distribution of [[Wikipedia]] to date. As an offline reader, Kiwix works with a library of contents that are zim files: you can pick & choose whichever [[Wikimedia_Foundation#Wikimedia_projects|Wikimedia project]] (Wikipedia in any language, [[Wiktionary]], [[Wikisource]], etc.), as well as [[TED Talks]], [[PhET Interactive Simulations|PhET Interactive Maths & Physics simulations]], [[Project Gutenberg]], etc.

It is free and open source, and currently available for download on: 
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Android]
* [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563?mt=8 iOS]
* [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kiwix-desktop/id1275066656 macOS]
* [https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/kiwix-desktop_windows_x64.zip Windows] & [https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9P8SLZ4J979J Windows 10 (UWP)]
* [https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kiwix.desktop GNU/Linux]

... as well as extensions for [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfcioahhk Chrome] & [https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/ Firefox] browsers, server solutions, etc. See [https://www.kiwix.org/en/ official Website] for the complete Kiwix portfolio.

===Aard Dictionary / Aard 2===
[https://github.com/aarddict Aard Dictionary] is an offline Wikipedia reader. No images. Cross-platform for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Maemo. Runs on rooted Nook and Sony PRS-T1 eBooks readers.

It also has a successor [http://aarddict.org/ Aard 2].

=== Wikiviewer for [[Rockbox]] ===
The wikiviewer plugin for rockbox permits viewing converted Wikipedia dumps on many [[Rockbox]] devices.
It needs a custom build and conversion of the wiki dumps using the instructions available at http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/4755 . The conversion recompresses the file and splits it into 1 [[Gigabyte|GB]] files and an index file which all need to be in the same folder on the device or micro sd card.

===Old dumps===
* The static version of Wikipedia created by Wikimedia: http://static.wikipedia.org/ Feb. 11, 2013{{dash}}This is apparently offline now. There was no content.
*[http://www.tommasoconforti.com/ Wiki2static] (site down {{asof|2005|10|lc=on}}) '''was''' an experimental program set up by [[User:Alfio]] to generate html dumps, inclusive of images, search function and alphabetical index. At the linked site experimental dumps and the script itself can be downloaded. As an example it was used to generate these copies of [http://fixedreference.org/en/20040424/wikipedia/Main_Page English WikiPedia 24 April 04], [https://web.archive.org/web/20040618150011/http://fixedreference.org/simple/20040501/wikipedia/Main_Page Simple WikiPedia 1 May 04](old database) format and [http://july.fixedreference.org/en/20040724/wikipedia/Main_Page English WikiPedia 24 July 04][http://july.fixedreference.org/simple/20040724/wikipedia/Main_Page Simple WikiPedia 24 July 04], [http://july.fixedreference.org/fr/20040727/wikipedia/Accueil WikiPedia Francais 27 Juillet 2004] (new format). [[User:BozMo|BozMo]] uses a version to generate periodic static copies at [http://fixedreference.org/ fixed reference] (site down as of October 2017).