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In the Print/export section select Download as PDF. The rendering engine starts and a dialog appears to show the rendering progress. When rendering is complete, the dialog shows "The document file has been generated. Download the file to your computer." Click the download link to open the PDF in your selected PDF viewer.
(and the corresponding index file, pages-articles-multistream-index.txt.bz2) pages-articles.xml.bz2 and pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 both contain the same xml contents. So if you unpack either, you get the same data. But with multistream, it is possible to get an article from the archive without unpacking the whole thing.
Experienced Wikipedians often glean a great deal about articles from looking at the page history and following up to the individual edits that make up that history. This page describes some of these tricks of the trade. The suggestions here apply mostly to substantive articles with a number of contributors.
Put the copy in folder C:\wiki (another drive letter is also possible, but wiki should not be a sub-folder) and do not use any file name extension. This way the links work. This way the links work. One inconvenient aspect is that you cannot open a file in a folder listing by clicking on it, because of the lack of a file name extension.
A Wikipedia book is a collection of articles linked from a special Book page comprising brief details and a table of contents. As time goes by and the articles get edited, the contents of the book will change to match. Wikipedia books are available for rendering as PDF files or printing off as paper books by third party providers.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia which is free to use and edit. It is available in many different languages and on many devices. The content of Wikipedia is free to reproduce under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), except for some images.
The most efficient way to identify many problems is to go on the individual articles of your book and view the article as a PDF (click "Download as PDF" in the "print/export" box on the left hand side of your screen, towards the bottom). Preview the page, and if something doesn't look right, chances are there's a problem.
Begin each article with the following statement before you record the introduction to an article: "Article name, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at E N dot wikipedia dot org." Typically the standard header is read first in your article, or second if you wish to give a statement about the opening information. This opening information ...