How to Download Wikipedia for Offline Downloading Wikipedia for Offline Use In this article, we will show how you can download Wikipedia articles for offline usage. However, it still requires an internet connection to search for something on Wikipedia. It contains a lot of information that people might need to check in their daily lives. Anyone can create and edit the articles on Wikipedia. (And for the future maybe it would be a good idea to test ALL the Kiwix platforms if they work with the newer ZIM files, BEFORE applying changes without the necessary tests.) Possibility 2: Take a look in the source code of the program and fix the problem with no recognizing the newer ZIM files.Wikipedia is a vast free encyclopedia created by the community users. What can you do to fix this problem? Possibility 1: Revert the recently changes the way the ZIM files were created.
It just doesn't try to open them and therefore it is not able to show some error message. What does this mean? Obviously the Kiwix desktop program cannot open the newer versions of the ZIM files, indeed it doesn't recognize them as valid ZIM files. That is to say: there is no error message in the command box and the Kiwix desktop shows: "about:blank". The result was the same as described above, when I try to open the 2020_05 or the 2020_06 spanish Wikipedia ZIM file. Then I opened the last nightly build of the Win64 Kiwix desktop and tried to open this newly created ZIM file. Obviously this isn't a valid ZIM file, but this is the idea of testing it. But for general considerations it seems that there has been changed something the way the new ZIM files were created, maybe it's a kind of an "updated" ZIM version with which some ZIM file readeres (like the Linux one) can handle with, but the Windows version not.įor testing purposes I did the following: I created a file with the Windows Notepad just writing "test" inside the file and saved this file with the filename "test.zim". I am not a programmer and I can't help you fixing this bug. (identically to the MD5 which is published for this ZIM file) (What you can see is the older version of this spanish Wikipedia ZIM from 2020-03, this opens without problems).ĥeff3253a1cab83a8a884ba4a21a87e53b309bc9dd0af7b5753f8484bd41af8d The ZIM file which the problem is about (Wikipedia, spanish, maxi version, 2020-05 doesn't appear in this library page, even after trying to open it. Yes, I can load other ZIM files and all of them are in the same directory:Īll the other ZIM files (which I can open without any problem) appear in the "Library page" of the Kiwix Desktop program:
It's not an external drive, it's the same partition in which the kiwix-desktop program is and any other program on my computer.Ĭan you load succesfully an other file which is exactly beside it in the same directory? Where is the path of the ZIM file? Is that an external drive? If you mean starting a command box by opening cmd.exe, changing to the directory of the kiwix-desktop program, typing "kiwix-desktop" and then trying to open the ZIM file in the Kiwix Desktop program, I can't see any error in the command box. No, I don't get search suggestions, only the "Fulltext search" appears but without giving any result by clicking on it.ĭo you get an error? on the command line if you start it manually? It stays with the blank page as pasted above. No, I can't load a random page neither with the shortcut Ctrl+R nor by entering the Menu "Random Article".
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