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Summary

XOWA is the free, open-source application that lets you download Wikipedia to your computer. Access all of Wikipedia offline -- without an internet connection!

XOWA showing Wikipedia's article on Wikipedia

Features

• Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia.
• Display 5.0+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
• Show images within an article. Access 5.0+ million images using the offline image databases.
• Set up over 800+ other wikis including:
  • English Wiktionary
  • English Wikisource
  • English Wikiquote
  • English Wikivoyage
  • Non-English wikis, such as French Wiktionary, German Wikisource, Dutch Wikivoyage
  • Wikidata
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikispecies
  • ... and many more!
• Update your wiki whenever you want, using Wikimedia's database backups.
• Navigate between offline wikis. Click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and instantly view the page in Wiktionary.
• Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors.
• Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
• Run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi, and Android
• View the HTML for any wiki page
• Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box
• Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages
• Find a word on a page.
• Access a history of viewed pages
• Bookmark your favorite pages.

Recent News

• Polish wikis

• Arabic wikis

• English wikis

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• German wikis

• XOWA Android app

• French Wikipedia update

• English Wikipedia update