WikiTaxi: use a local copy of WikiPedia
Accessing WikiPedia is easy when you're online, but have you ever wanted to take it along with you for off-line situations? I have, and there is a lovely program to do so for Windows: WikiTaxi. You don't have to install the program; just extract it from its 7zip archive and put it in a convenient location somewhere on your Windows drive.
After downloading one of the page dumps from Wikimedia, you convert (to SQLite) the compressed page dump file (e.g. enwiki-.....-pages-articles.xml.bz2) to WikiTaxi's format with the included importer program, which takes a while: on my system the converter ran for just over an hour to translate the full WikiPedia compressed XML source (3.3GB) to WikiTaxi's format, resulting in a 5.89 GB file.
WikiTaxi is well documented, and it is fun to use. The only thing missing are WikiPedia's images, but those are difficult to acquire.
http://www.wikitaxi.org is now connected and points to the latest version of WikiTaxi.
I am having difficulty importing the xml english dump into wikitaxi importer. The importer doesn't seem to recognize the file and I have made sure to download the correct one exactly as described. I have Windows Vista and wonder if that is the problem or is there something else? Help me please if you can. Thanks!
@Tom Hall
it may be because of fat32 filesystem restrictions. fat32 cannot handle files over 4gb. you need to put the file on an ntfs formatted disk.
In vista you need to run it in compatibility mode. right click on the icon and go to the properties then the tab for compatibility, click the run in compatibility mode for windows XP.
I am having difficulty importing the xml english dump enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 into wikitaxi importer 1.0.3. When I click on "Import Now!" I get "Error: SQLite Error 14 – unable to open database file" I have Windows XP Pro fully updated. Help me please if you can. Thanks!
I have solved my problem by the way gived by JAmes C,thanky you!
I also have vista. but the file i want to import is only 180mb or so.
Why doesn't wikitaxi recognize the file in the browser?
In Vista, the way which works to import the file in WikiTaxi Importer is to add the path of the xml.bz2 file as well as the .taxi file in the WikiTaxi_Importer.ini file manually.
vikram is right. create an empty .taxi file the folder by creating a text doc and saving it as a .taxi file named wiki.taxi
hi dawight
what is the procedure to make .taxi file??i really dont have much knowledge about this….
plez write to me the steps to make .taxi folder