![]() Perhaps that is not the ethic, but if there was a place for a donation or one of your favorite charities, I'd certainly contribute. It's a service I'd be more than ready to pay for. I would also like to congratulate you the incredible work you do. Maybe there is a problem with the structure of the recent databases? I did the same searches, and the pages loaded in less than 10 seconds - really excellent. I searched for "tomate" and "Toulouse" in the french database, and "tomato" and "truck" in the english databases. Unfortunately, when the pages were heavy, they took almost a minute to load. I have a query, I downloaded the most recent french and english databases : You then transfer the ZIM file to your iOS device using iTunes File Sharing (see ). You can download the ZIM file (or files) directly using the Kiwix App on your iPone, iPad, or iPod Touch - but this takes a long time and is liable to errors.Ī faster and more reliable method is to use a computer to download the small torrent file for the large non-indexed ZIM file you want (not the pre-indexed package for Windows) from then use a bit-torrent client (such a uTorrent) to download the actual ZIM data file to your computer. You first download the Kiwix program from the iTunes App Store to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, and then download the ZIM datafiles for whatever Wikis you want (for example, Wikipedia or Wikiquote). Kiwix is available for iOS version 8.0 or later. ![]() WikiMed is available also in languages other than English. We recommend that mobile users install it to a microSD card if your device has one (you can change install location in the Storage settings). Please would you consider adding some more information at (1) and (2) and (3) under the Description at the iTunes App Store (). It contains thousands of articles including images, so its archive is large (1.4 Gigabytes). If you assume they’re all UTF-8 (4 bytes per character), it would still only max out at 214.8 GB.Forgive me if this is not the correct place for this post - it is inteneded to be helpful and not critical. If you assume these to be all ASCII characters (1 byte per character), that’s only about 53.7 GB. If you multiply 11 billion words by an average length of 5 characters, you’d only get 55 billion characters. It’s unlikely that 11 billion words would use 1 petabyte of space (much less an exabyte). (current revision only no history no images). I would venture a guess that the total disk size of all these wikis is about 100 GB. Since these are the largest wikis, I’d say that it probably covers around 7 billion of those 11 billion words. The 11 billion words statistic doesn’t refer to **English Wikipedia** but to all the **combined Wikipedias**: English Wikipedia French Wikipedia German Wikipedia etc… Kiwix offers about 40 Wikipedias out of roughly 123 total Wikipedias. This 10 GB should be the complete text of English Wikipedia from January 2012. As Martin points out, the 10 GB is packed data. ![]() Kiwix does download all of English Wikipedia. You are asked if you want to check out the newest libraries available when you first run the program, and you should, as you get a large list of Wikipedia-related libraries displayed to you then that you can download to your system. This is just the program interface and backend though. It is a lightweight software / application that you can use to download Wikipedia contents to it so that you can browse those contents at anytime, even when you are offline.Īs far as the PC version is concerned: you download the latest version of Kiwix from the official project website and extract it afterwards on your system. Kiwix is a portable solution for desktop systems, like Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and also for Android-based devices. Storage space has increased on mobile devices today so that it is no longer a big issue to download two or three Gigabyte of data to the device.Īs far as PCs are concerned, this was never really that much of an issue unless you are running a PC with a single Solid State Drive that has 128 Gigabytes or less of space. ![]() Back in the days when the first offline solutions for Wikipedia were introduced, you often did not have enough space on your mobile device to really add a larger section of the site on it.
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