

And it will unpack to ~5-10 times its original size. You might be tempted to get the smaller non-multistream archive, but this will be useless if you don't unpack it.

The only downside to multistream is that it is marginally larger. Your reader should handle this for you, if your reader doesn't support it it will work anyway since multistream and non-multistream contain the same xml.
#Wiki offline download archive#
But with multistream, it is possible to get an article from the archive without unpacking the whole thing. So if you unpack either, you get the same data. 2 and 2 both contain the same xml contents. GET THE MULTISTREAM VERSION! (and the corresponding index file, 2) To download a subset of the database in XML format, such as a specific category or a list of articles see: Special:Export, usage of which is described at Help:Export.Go to Latest Dumps and look out for all the files that have 'pages-meta-history' in their name.

Please only download these if you know you can cope with this quantity of data.
