Welcome to Zipedia project page

Zipedia is a Mozilla Firefox extension enabling off-line browsing of Wikipedia pages.

How it works

Wikipedia provides timely XML dumps of their page contents. These so-called "Wiki Dumps" are usually available in all languages from http://download.mediawiki.org. Zipedia can process such compressed wiki dump to be used locally. The Zipedia extension enables crude searching by key words of page titles and attempts to re-format the Wiki syntax into a passable HTML.

Limitations of Zipedia

Zipedia is a poor man's choice, when access to the real thing (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org) is not possible or too slow.

  • HTML formatting is inferior to that of Wikipedia
  • Key word searching possible only in page titles
  • Images must still be fetched from the internet, if a connection is available

Advantages

Only one advantage: You can use it without a need for direct internet access to Wikipedia.

Download

Go to the ZipediaDownload page.

Source

Zipedia is using bzr. To access the the source code use 

bzr branch http://zipedia.nargila.org/src/trunk zipedia