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		PaulDavisThe1st on Oct 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash ... Thanks. I had not understood that the download is the actual "raw" wiki files, not the pages as they would be delivered to a browser.

kragen on Oct 6, 2022 [–]

It's actually a compressed archive, but I think the contents are in fact HTML and other browser-accessible media types.

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