- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: August 13, 2008
- Total Downloads: 9,935
- Downloads last week: 72
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
WikiTaxi compresses all of Wikipedia into a database that's searchable, fully usable, and small enough to fit on an 8GB USB drive. WikiTaxi grabs the Wikipedia database dump every few weeks, keeping your offline entries up-to-date with the latest changes. There's also an option in the program to update it yourself, if you happen to find yourself near an Internet connection.
As a single-file app, WikiTaxi is easy to manage--hence the portability. To install it, you extract the file to any folder. When you open it, it opens to a randomly-selected page, and you can browse from there. WikiTaxi does leave Wikipedia's images behind to keep the file size down, so if you need graphics this might not be for you. Also, given the nature of WikiTaxi, don't forget that external links are not supported for obvious reasons. Internal links should still work, though. As a growing number of people try to take advantage of the Internet's resources without getting all the online distractions, WikiTaxi is a smart way to bus around one of the best tools on the Web.
Publisher's description
From Ralf Junker :WikiTaxi enables you to read, search, and browse Wikipedia offline. No Internet connection is needed, all pages are stored in a WikiTaxi database. Because Wikipedia is constantly growing, WikiTaxi uses compression to make sure that the database stays reasonably small. The huge English Wikipedia easily fits on a 8 GB memory stick.
WikiTaxi is multilingual, which means that you can use it for Wikipedias from different languages. It also works well with the dictionary and quotation Wikis, if you like. You can also save multiple Wikis to disk and use all of them with WikiTaxi. WikiTaxi is up to date. It works with the original Wikipedia database dumps, which are updated regularly every few weeks or so. If you feel that your offline Wikipedia is getting to old, you can go online to download a more recent version or just copy it from a friend.
Version 1.03 includes more parser improvements, one of which also fixes an AV.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.03 includes more parser improvements, one of which also fixes an AV.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 6 votes
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Version: WikiTaxi 1.03
"Long awaited and Most Wanted for me"
Pros: easy interface
good search options
flexible options
Cons: simple English db can be added by default
too many options will confuse the new user
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Version: WikiTaxi 1.03
Pros: The best wiki obviously is Wikipedia, but this is ABSOLUTELY THE BEST OFLINE WIKI.....EVER!! There was anolder one i was using that i had actually paid for (the name has escaped me..) but i find this one much better.
Cons: um...the menues might seem a little win98-ish, but its still teh best!
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Version: WikiTaxi 1.03
"Can't manage using it. Need Help"
Pros: Can't manage
Cons: can't manage
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Version: WikiTaxi 1.03
"wikki is the best off line brwoser"
Pros: to copy programe in any file or drive
Cons: exactly ihave never use so is can not explain more.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: WikiTaxi 1.03
Pros: Once you get this program and the database file, you don't have to do it again on a different computer. You can copy it to a different drive or disc and run it from there, copy it to a friend's computer for them, or even use it on a flash drive.
Cons: I only wish I had some warning as to how long it was going to take to download this program, over an hour. It also would have been nice to know that even after it takes that long to download, what you download isn't the complete program.
Summary: In order to use WikiTaxi, you also have to download one of the database files, and depending on which one you choose, that, too, could take awhile to get. I chose the full English one because I figure what's the point of having this unless you have... read more >>
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