[WikiEN-l] How to get a static English HTML dump from Wikipedia

Jay Litwyn brewhaha at edmc.net
Sat Nov 15 12:52:34 UTC 2008


From: "raghu0891" <raghu0891 at gmail.com>
>
> I downloaded the whole english wikipedia from this link
> http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/2008-06/en/wikipedia-en-html.tar.7z.
> When I tried to unzip the file using 7-zip, its giving a 'File is Broken'
> error.
> Any suggestion, or alternate method to get the english static html 
> wikipedia
> dump will be appreciated.

All methods available should be on a web page.
FTP is more reliable (and restartable) if it's available.
If it doesn't work the second time, then maybe it is corrupt at source.
That compression format is totally new to me, so bugz might be in it. 




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