Zipedia

Offline Wikipedia Browser.(For quick start/evaluation, install this extension and visit the URL 'wikipedia://wiki/MainPage' for instructions)When you have no Internet, or when the Internet is so slow, wouldn't it be nice to be able to type (example) 'wikipedia://wiki/Egypt' for immediate offline access to a wikipedia article? You will still need to download the wikipedia XML dump for offline use (see below), but you will not need to run neither MySQL nor mediawiki - nor will you need Internet connection (except for viewing the article images, which will not be available offline). All the (readonly) wiki stuff will be done by firefox itself. Features:Page viewing: Articles, Talk, etc.Search: Wildcard search by titleSetting Zipedia: Go to Tools->Extensions->zipedia->preferences. The wizard will guide you through the steps of downloading the wikipedia XML dump (~2G for the English wiki) and the conversion process, which could take a few hours.Special thanks to Pedro Fayolle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pilaf) for writing the Wiki conversion code used by this extension.

Supported versions: Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.* Windows, Linux

Notes / Comments: I got the idea for Zipedia while living in The Gambia, West Africa, where I experienced very slow internet or no connection at all.

Categories: Miscellaneous, Search Tools

Install: Zipedia

Egypt page example - images are fetched from wikipedia.org: