{"id":56505,"date":"2013-11-27T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T16:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=56505"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:00:20","slug":"free-app-xowa-lets-you-download-all-of-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/free-app-xowa-lets-you-download-all-of-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Free app Xowa lets you download all of Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new free Windows, Mac and Linux app allows you to download the whole of <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/b\/wikipedia\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>, images included, onto your computer. Named <strong>Xowa<\/strong>, the developers claim you&#8217;ll need at least 80GB of space and around five hours to process the text after it&#8217;s been downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>You can choose to download the full English Wikpedia or a much smaller Simple Wikipedia. The full version has an enormous 13.9+ million pages with 20.0+ GB of text, while the Simple version clocks in at only 180,000+ pages and 90,000+ images. You&#8217;ll be able to read Wikipedia normally almost exactly as you see it on the web once its set up.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever you choose, once downloaded and processed, you&#8217;ll have Wikipedia available offline whenever you want. The development team say it&#8217;s ideal for keeping on a pen drive, so you can access it wherever you find a computer. You can also edit articles with Xowa &#8211; remove &#8216;vandalism&#8217; or errors, or even rewrite the whole encylopedia giving yourself credit for inventing or discovering everything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xowa.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Xowa here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/wikipedia-zero-texts-users-info-from-the-online-encyclopedia\">Wikipedia Zero texts users info from the online encyclopedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/wikipedia-fights-against-paid-articles\">Wikipedia fights against paid articles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/wikipedia-launches-new-simple-visualeditor-for-contributors\">Wikipedia launches new simple VisualEditor for contributors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new free Windows, Mac and Linux app allows you to download the whole of Wikipedia, images included, onto your computer. Named Xowa, the developers claim you&#8217;ll need at least 80GB of space and around five hours to process the text after it&#8217;s been downloaded. You can choose to download the full English Wikpedia or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/free-app-xowa-lets-you-download-all-of-wikipedia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free app Xowa lets you download all of Wikipedia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-56505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331732,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56505\/revisions\/331732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56505"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=56505"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=56505"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=56505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}