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Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work). Make sure to pick the file ...
See Wikipedia:Database download. Note that downloading the database dumps is much preferred over trying to spider the entire site. Spidering the site will take you much longer, and puts a lot of load on the server (especially if you ignore our robots.txt and spider over billions of combinations of diffs and whatnot).
Alternatively one can copy the wikitext, i.e. the text in the edit box (the source code within the database). This has a limited use. There is more information in the webpage than conveyed by the wikitext: images
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The page mentions 19 GB in the context of a different download, pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2. The latest dump index says that the 19GB file is now about 22GB. -- John of Reading ( talk ) 07:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC) [ reply ]
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The database can be downloaded here, but you will need to set up a web server, PHP, MySQL and our wiki software, MediaWiki, to make use of it. Or Download here the data dump using a BitTorrent client.
mw:Database, some general information about the use of a database in the MediaWiki software; Wikipedia:Database download; Wikipedia:WikiProject Databases; Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis; Wikipedia:Database reports, periodic reports about article, file, or template usage, etc. Wikipedia:Request a query, a page to request database queries