I am deeply sorry to go off-topic, and ask a question not related to sex, images of sex, autofellatio, or why Wikipedia is not fit for any sort of school or restaurant.
I know two ways to copy of the content of any single article and save it on my local hard drive.
On Internet Explorer I can click, "File", "Save as", "Web Page - HTML only", and then save the individual article.
I also can go into an article, copy the article, paste it into a word processor, and then save it.
I could do either of these techniques for many articles, but is there an easier way to do this? I'd like to make a list of over a hundred articles - or even my entire Watchlist - and have the content automatically downloaded and saved to my hard-drive.
Any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated. If this helps, I am using Windows XP.
Our current conversation on sex may now continue. ;-)
Robert (RK)
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You're lucky that Wikipedia is locked at the moment. I'm bored enough to help you out.
Try this (when you are able):
Go to you watchlist and view the complete list
Then got to Favorites --> Add to Favorites
A box should appear that says "Interenet Explorer will add this page to your favorites" There is a checkbox that says "make available offline". Ttick this box.
Then click the button that says "customize".
A wizard will start. Click next, then when you get to "if this page contains links to other pages would you like them to be available offline too?" click "yes" (one link deep should be enough, if you up it to 2 then every link on every page of your watchlist should also be sychronised)
Click next then go on to say how often you want to sychronise your offline pages with wikipedia.
HTH
Theresa
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:03:47 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
A box should appear that says "Interenet Explorer will add this page to your favorites" There is a checkbox that says "make available offline". Ttick this box.
[snip]
Click next then go on to say how often you want to sychronise your offline pages with wikipedia.
But wouldn't a solution like this (which is incidentally IE-specific) only provide the articles in rendered (i.e. HTML) format? When downloading articles for editing, one would surely want the wiki plaintext, no? How does one get at that automatically, short of using a bot?
Steve
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:18:19 -0500, Stephen Forrest stephen.forrest@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:03:47 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
A box should appear that says "Interenet Explorer will add this page to your favorites" There is a checkbox that says "make available offline". Ttick this box.
[snip]
Click next then go on to say how often you want to synchronise your offline pages with wikipedia.
But wouldn't a solution like this (which is incidentally IE-specific)
Well he did say he was using IE
only provide the articles in rendered (i.e. HTML) format?
Yes, but judging from what Robert had already tried (saving individual pages) I assumed that was what he wanted.
When downloading articles for editing, one would surely want the wiki plaintext, no? How does one get at that automatically, short of using a bot?
I don't think downloading large numbers of articles for editing is particularly sensible unless they are all very low volume, otherwise you'll get numerous edit conflicts. But in answer to your question, I suppose you could add each page in your watchlist to your favourites (it would take hours) but add
&action=edit
to the end of each URL. e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Theresa_knott&action=edit
Then you could synchronise your favourites for offline viewing and they'll all be in edit mode ready to go should you want to make any changes. I don't know if this would actually work mind you, i haven't actually tried it out!
Theresa
Stephen Forrest said:
When downloading articles for editing, one would surely want the wiki plaintext, no? How does one get at that automatically, short of using a bot?
There is a tool in Special to do this. It should work on any Wikipedia, not just en. Type the following command into the search box on Wikipedia:
Special:export
Follow the straightforward instructions. Basically you type names of articles, one per line, into the textbox, and set the checkbox appropriately according to whether you want only the latest version or the whole history (all versions). Then when you click on "Submit Query" you will get a xml document containing what you asked for. Your browser may require you to "view page source" in order to get at the full XML source. For instance here is what the start and end of my query for the current version of "falling" and "hat" looked like. As you can see it contains the raw wikitext. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <mediawiki version="0.1" xml:lang="en"> <page> <title>Falling</title> <revision> <timestamp>2005-02-12T23:16:39Z</timestamp> <contributor><username>Rich Farmbrough</username></contributor> <text>''For other meanings of ''fall'', see [[fall (disambiguation)]]'' ---- The word '''falling''' describes movement due to [[gravity]]. By analogy, it has other uses not directly related to gravity. ==[[sense|Sensation]]==
A [[sense|sensation]] of '''falling''' occurs when the [[Labyrinth (inner ear)|labyrinth]] or ''vestibular apparatus'', a system of fluid-filled passages in the [[ear|inner ear]], detects motion. The same system also detects rotary motion. A similar sensation of falling can be induced when the eyes detect rapid apparent motion with respect to the environment. This system enables us to keep our balance by signalling when a physical correction is necessary. [...]
[[Category:Hats]]
[[de:Hut (Kopfbedeckung)]] [[nl:Hoed]]</text> </revision> </page> </mediawiki>
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:18:19 -0500, Stephen Forrest stephen.forrest@gmail.com wrote:
But wouldn't a solution like this (which is incidentally IE-specific) only provide the articles in rendered (i.e. HTML) format? When downloading articles for editing, one would surely want the wiki plaintext, no? How does one get at that automatically, short of using a bot?
Look at Special:Export, and the Eclipse editor.
Sorry if you see this twice. I got a bounce.
Stephen Forrest said:
When downloading articles for editing, one would surely want the wiki plaintext, no? How does one get at that automatically, short of using a bot?
There is a tool in Special to do this. It should work on any Wikipedia, not just en. Type the following command into the search box on Wikipedia:
Special:export
Follow the straightforward instructions. Basically you type names of articles, one per line, into the textbox, and set the checkbox appropriately according to whether you want only the latest version or the whole history (all versions). Then when you click on "Submit Query" you will get a xml document containing what you asked for. Your browser may require you to "view page source" in order to get at the full XML source. For instance here is what the start and end of my query for the current version of "falling" and "hat" looked like. As you can see it contains the raw wikitext. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <mediawiki version="0.1" xml:lang="en"> <page> <title>Falling</title> <revision> <timestamp>2005-02-12T23:16:39Z</timestamp> <contributor><username>Rich Farmbrough</username></contributor> <text>''For other meanings of ''fall'', see [[fall (disambiguation)]]'' ---- The word '''falling''' describes movement due to [[gravity]]. By analogy, it has other uses not directly related to gravity. ==[[sense|Sensation]]==
A [[sense|sensation]] of '''falling''' occurs when the [[Labyrinth (inner ear)|labyrinth]] or ''vestibular apparatus'', a system of fluid-filled passages in the [[ear|inner ear]], detects motion. The same system also detects rotary motion. A similar sensation of falling can be induced when the eyes detect rapid apparent motion with respect to the environment. This system enables us to keep our balance by signalling when a physical correction is necessary. [...]
[[Category:Hats]]
[[de:Hut (Kopfbedeckung)]] [[nl:Hoed]]</text> </revision> </page> </mediawiki>