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Despite its massive size, it is possible to run your own offline version of Wikipedia (or just read certain articles offline in a convenient form). A popular option for the sole user is Kiwix, however, if you want to run a server for multi-user access or want a cross-platform option, Gozim is worth a look.

Written in Googles Go web language, Gozim is a free, open-source ZIM reader that can download, index and serve Wikipedia, as long as youre willing to download the required files. You can grab the whole thing, images included, if you have 40GB of bandwidth to spare. Alternatively, if you just want the text, 12GB is all you need.

What makes Gozim different to other offerings is that you can run it on just about anything, including a Raspberry Pi, tablet or smartphone. All you have to do is run the included indexer program (if you want article searching) and then fire up the web server. You should then be able to browse to the device and the offline Wikipedia by typing in the IP address and port (8080 by default).

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Kolkata: To increase content in Indian languages like Bengali, Wikipedia contributors from India and Bangladesh would meet at an international conference here next week.

Scheduled to be held from January 9 at Jadavpur University campus, the two-day conference would mark the tenth anniversary of the Bengali Wikimedia community, Jayanta Nath, Secretary of Wikimedia India chapter, said.

Available at http://www.bn.wikipedia.org, the Bengali edition has over 35,000 articles in the regional language. But out of its 450 active contributors, a dismal number of only five are from India.

Scheduled to be held from January 9 at Jadavpur University campus, the two-day conference would mark the tenth anniversary of the Bengali Wikimedia community.

"The majority are from Bangladesh. We are trying to increase our community from West Bengal," Nath said. Around 17 Wikipedia contributors are coming from Bangladesh while another 22 delegates would be from India. They will be conducting workshops and lectures for students on how to type, edit in Bengali, upload image in commons, contribute to Bengali Wiktionary, etc.

Contributors from Indian languages like Telugu, Assamese, Hindi, Kannada, Odiya, Punjabi, Tamil, etc would be deliberating upon new ideas in the conference.

A unique feature would be mass editing where a large group will work on articles related to West Bengal together. "This would encourage people who are new to Wikipedia as contributors. They would write new articles, edit existing ones or upload media files on Wikimedia Commons, etc. We are expecting around 200-250 participants in this Wiki Marathon," Nath said.

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