Here’s how you could still gain access to Wikipedia as it holds protest by bringing the website down to support the Anti-SOPA moment on January 18th.
Wikipedia has announced that the English version of the world’s largest Encyclopedia will go down on January 18th to protest against the SOPA. The protest will last for 24 hours and is expected to hit millions of users looking for information online. But what if you’ve got an important project thesis to submit on that day or the next and you desperately want to gather some information from Wikipedia.
Here’s a Chrome extension that would save your day. The extension called Offline Wiki, gives you access to the content from Wikipedia. All you need to do is, just download and install this extension and read when Wikipedia goes offline on Jan.18th. The extension downloads all the textual content that you want to read on Jan. 18th. And also would be of great help even when your internet connection goes off.
The extension comes in two versions. One is the smaller version, which comes in 14MB and the other is the extended version of the extension comes in 1GB in size. The extension actually downloads the dump of the index of Wikipedia and stores it offline.
You just need to launch the extension, and select the file size in the notification bar. Once the download finishes, you are good to go. You could choose between various parsers to download the articles from Wikipedia. You can now start searching for the articles in the extension and it would throw you the results of the words you’ve searched. Just like Wikipedia.
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