if you have 100GB of spare space on your harddrive you really can just keep wikipedia on your computer and it's not even hard to set up
1 - download the file (yes one 100gb file)
2 - install kiwix browser extension
3 - launch kiwix browser extension and tell it where the file is
done. local wikipedia, all of it, even with images. i just did this and it works great
here's the latest "maxi" english language dump for step 1 above: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
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2025-03-07 18:21:59
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2025-03-07 18:21:59Event JSON
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