View source for Wikipedia

'''Wikipedia''' is the largest [[wiki]] on the planet, with several million articles available in English and several million more in dozens of available languages.

[[File:Wikipedia nostalgia.png|thumb|right|[http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org Wikipedia nostalgia], a frozen version of Wikipedia from 2001]] 
[[File:Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia april fools day 2010.png|thumb|right|April Fools Day 2010]]
For once, a site that recognizes the importance of third-party backups! They have a [http://download.wikipedia.org/ main downloads page] from which you can get XML dumps from [http://download.wikipedia.org/backup-index.html individual wikis] (Wikimedia Foundation hosts more than 700 wikis: Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, Wikinews, Wikisources, Wikibooks, Wikiquotes, Wikiversities, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons).

You can download all the articles of the [[English Wikipedia]] (with complete edit history) in an unique file (compressed in [[7zip]] format) from [http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100130/ here] (ATTENTION: 31 GB! Unpacked it expands up to 5.2 TB. Direct link: [http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100130/enwiki-20100130-pages-meta-history.xml.7z pages-meta-history.xml.7z]).

There's an old article dump (2008/03/12) [http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4794236/enwiki-20080312-pages-articles.xml.bz2 up on The Pirate Bay], from the [http://thepiratebay.org/user/archiveteam/ ArchiveTeam TPB account]. Also, a [http://dumps.wikimedia.org/archive/enwiki/20060816/ dump from 2006] is available.

Some [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=wikipedia%20dump Wikipedia dumps] in the Internet Archive.

There is no current public backup for images uploaded to [[Wikimedia Commons]] which has about 10 million images and other media files uploaded on it's services.

<center>'''No more [[Library of Alexandria|Libraries of Alexandria]] destroyed.'''</center>

[[File:Size of English Wikipedia in August 2010 (L).png|thumb|center|700px|English Wikipedia in August 2010, if printed.]]

== Tools ==
* [http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/source/browse/trunk/wikipediadownloader.py WikiTeam script] to download Wikipedia dumps from download.wikimedia.org

== Vital signs ==

Stable, but they seriously use a lot of tactics to get donations.

== Offline readers ==
* [http://www.okawix.com/ Okawix] ([http://www.okawix.com/zenos/ files])
* [http://www.kiwix.org Kiwix] ([http://download.kiwix.org/zim/ files])

== See also ==
* [[Wikimedia Commons]]
* [[Wikia]]
* [[Wikis]]
* [[Nupedia]]
* [[GNUPedia]]
* [[Citizendium]]

== External links ==
* http://download.wikipedia.org/
* http://download.wikimedia.org/archive/ some incomplete old dumps, English Wikipedia mainly
* [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/063088.html old wikipedia backups discovered] http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/wikipedia-logs-2001-08-17.7z
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive

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