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From XOWA: a free, open-source, offline wiki application

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XOWA is a 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

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Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia.
Display 4.7+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
Show images within an article. Access 3.7+ 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 and Mac OS X
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.

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