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Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from [2] (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work).
See Wikipedia:Database download. Note that downloading the database dumps is much preferred over trying to spider the entire site. Spidering the site will take you much longer, and puts a lot of load on the server (especially if you ignore our robots.txt and spider over billions of combinations of diffs and whatnot).
XOWA allows users to download and import their own copy of Wikipedia using official database dumps, or by special database files specifically created for use within XOWA. The application is designed to accurately display Wikipedia content through its own internal browser, or by a locally hosted web server which allows users to access content ...
Database dump. A database dump contains a record of the table structure and/or the data from a database and is usually in the form of a list of SQL statements ("SQL dump"). A database dump is most often used for backing up a database so that its contents can be restored in the event of data loss. Corrupted databases can often be recovered by ...
Download the most recent dump of the Wikipedia database from download.wikimedia.org. For the English version of Wikipedia, select the entry labeled "enwiki." Uncompress the database with bzip2. Other uncompression software may fail silently. Install and start AutoWikiBrowser.
Download and install the MySQL database engine from the MySQL web site. Download the latest en database dump from the Wikipedia database download site. Unzip the database dump and load the resulting file into MySQL with the source command. Now issue the SQL statement:
Currently WP:DD redirects to here, Wikipedia:Database download. I would like to usurp this shortcut and direct it to Wikipedia:Database download. WP:DUMP is the more popular and actively used shortcut, so it already was preferred, and now I think it should be recommended.
Note: This page discusses the SQL dump format, which is now obsolete. New Wikipedia dumps are in XML format. This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference.