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How to dump English nouns from Wiktionary? [closed]
I am developing software to help with language learning, using a new concept. One of the modules analyzes text to provide grammatical information on each word. To implement that module, I need to ...
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Can someone with a Kobo e-reader test if Wikilinks work when viewing Wikipedia on Pocket or its browser?
I'm looking for an e-reader to read Wikipedia, ideally that is not very costly, is relatively repairable, and is run by a company with some environmental ethos (here's my original question about that)....
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Sorting a Wikipedia table by numerical value in a text document?
I've been working on a 3474 line table. Getting the information was easy, capturing the needed information from public online sources. But I came across a problem.
The table is by default sorted ...
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Trouble Unzipping Wikipedia Dump
My use case is I need to parse text from wikipedia articles. There is a dump available at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20221001/ that contains the files I want. Essentially the articles are ...
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Wikipedia small writing on surface pro
When I use the English version of Wikipedia on my Surface Pro it apparently thinks I have a large screen resulting in the display of unreadably small writing.
I have two Surface Pros both with this ...
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Downloading wikipedia database for offline use
Here there are many ZIM files: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/
I want complete English Wikipedia with images... which one should I download?
What is the difference for example ...
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Ripping or downloading large number of selected pages from wikipedia
I require only subject related articles from wikipedia i.e. ,not the entire database but specific pages, for offline viewing and reference purpose. the download page of wikipedia allows download of ...
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How do you save a wikipedia article with the styling intact?
I'm using Cmd+S to save webpages in Chrome and for most pages it saves the assets to a folder as well. This usually includes the CSS and images. Thus when you open the local HTML file in Chrome, it'll ...
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Repeating Chrome extension error "failed to redirect"
Occasionally, when opening a wikipedia page I get this type of error in Chrome:
Warning: This extension failed to redirect a network request to
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lymphoma because another ...
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kiwix is creating a index of wikipedia even when i downloaded the portable 46 GB wikipedia which has index files already
I downloaded the portable version of Wikipedia the complete one.That was about 46.32 GB which includes about 11 GB of index files under D:\kiwix\data\index\wikipedia_en_all_02_2014.zim.idx
But when i ...
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How to make Wikipedia forward to article instead of going to search [closed]
I recently updated to Win10, using chrome as always I found that Wikipedia doesn't forward to an article anymore when I type in correct word but forwards to search results instead.
It also doesn't do ...
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How to hide irrelevant languages in Wikipedia in Firefox
Is there any way i can hide irrelevant languages in Wikipedia in Forefox browser?
I want to hide everything except English and Ukrainian for instance so i do not have to scroll on every page up and ...
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Downloading Wikipedia
How can I download a specific set of the Wikipedia database? In particular, I'm interested in downloading all articles that fall under the mathematics portal and possibly the computer science portal. ...
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How do I access wikipedia offline from command line?
I want to open up an offline version of wikipedia from the command line with a specified article (and preferably a window size and position as well).
I've downloaded wikipedia dumps in several ...
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Wikipedia Offline with Mac OS X 10.4 PPC?
I've been searching around for this and have come up against a wall of dead links.
I have a PPC-based eMac that has OS X 10.4 and I would like to get an offline copy of Wikipedia (the reduced-content ...