Dynamic HTML generation from a local XML database dump

Instead of converting a database dump file to many pieces of static HTML, one can also use a dynamic HTML generator. Browsing a wiki page is just like browsing a Wiki site, but the content is fetched and converted from a local dump file upon request from the browser.
XOWA

XOWA is a free, open-source application that lets you download Wikipedia to your computer. Access all of Wikipedia offline -- without an internet connection! It is currently in the beta stage of development, but is functional. It is available for download here.
Features

    Displays all articles from Wikipedia without an internet connection.
    Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia.
    Display 4.4+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
    Show images within an article. Access 3.7+ million images using the offline image databases.
    Works with any Wikimedia wiki, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikivoyage (also some non-wmf dumps)
    Works with any non-English language wiki such as French Wikipedia, German Wikisource, Dutch Wikivoyage, etc.
    Works with other specialized wikis such as Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, or any other MediaWiki generated dump
    Set up over 660+ other wikis including:
        English Wiktionary
        English Wikisource
        English Wikiquote
        English Wikivoyage
        Non-English wikis, such as French Wiktionary, German Wikisource, Dutch Wikivoyage
        Wikidata
        Wikimedia Commons
        Wikispecies
        ... and many more!
    Update your wiki whenever you want, using Wikimedia's database backups.
    Navigate between offline wikis. Click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and instantly view the page in Wiktionary.
    Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors.
    Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
    Run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
    View the HTML for any wiki page.
    Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box.
    Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages.
    Find a word on a page.
    Access a history of viewed pages.
    Bookmark your favorite pages.
    Downloads images and other files on demand (when connected to the internet)
    Sets up Simple Wikipedia in less than 5 minutes
    Can be customized at many levels: from keyboard shortcuts to HTML layouts to internal options

Offline wikipedia reader

(for Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, and other Unices)

The offline-wikipedia project provides a very effective way to get an offline version of Wikipedia. It uses entirely free software. Packages are available for Ubuntu and soon for other Linux distributions.
Main features

    Very fast searching
    Keyword (actually, title words) based searching
    Search produces multiple possible articles: you can choose amongst them
    LaTeX based rendering for mathematical formulae
    Minimal space requirements: the original .bz2 file plus the index
    Very fast installation (a matter of hours) compared to loading the dump into MySQL

WikiFilter

WikiFilter is a program which allows you to browse over 100 dump files without visiting a Wiki site.
WikiFilter system requirements

    A recent Windows version (WinXP is fine; Win98 and WinME won't work because they don't have NTFS support)
    A fair bit of hard drive space (To install you will need about 12 - 15 Gigabytes; afterwards you will only need about 10 Gigabytes)

How to set up WikiFilter

    Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download.
    Download XAMPPLITE from [2] (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work). Make sure to pick the file whose filename ends with .exe
    Install/extract it to C:\XAMPPLITE.
    Download WikiFilter 2.3 from this site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wikifilter. You will have a choice of files to download, so make sure that you pick the 2.3 version. Extract it to C:\WIKIFILTER.
    Copy the WikiFilter.so into your C:\XAMPPLITE\apache\modules folder.
    Edit your C:\xampplite\apache\conf\httpd.conf file, and add the following line:
        LoadModule WikiFilter_module "C:/XAMPPLITE/apache/modules/WikiFilter.so"
    When your Wikipedia file has finished downloading, uncompress it into your C:\WIKIFILTER folder. (I used WinRAR http://www.rarlab.com/ demo version – BitZipper http://www.bitzipper.com/winrar.html works well too.)
    Run WikiFilter (WikiIndex.exe), and go to your C:\WIKIFILTER folder, and drag and drop the XML file into the window, click Load, then Start.
    After it finishes, exit the window, and go to your C:\XAMPPLITE folder. Run the setup_xampp.bat file to configure xampp.
    When you finish with that, run the Xampp-Control.exe file, and start Apache.
    Browse to http://localhost/wiki and see if it works
        If it doesn't work, see the forums.

WikiTaxi

WikiTaxi is an offline-reader for wikis in MediaWiki format. It enables users to search and browse popular wikis like Wikipedia, Wikiquote, or WikiNews, without being connected to the Internet. WikiTaxi works well with different languages like English, German, Turkish, and others but has a problem with right-to-left language scripts. Doesn't allow to display images though.
WikiTaxi system requirements

    Any Windows version starting from Windows 95 or later. Large File support (greater than 4 GB) for the huge wikis (English only at the time of this writing).
    It also works on Linux with Wine.
    16 MB RAM minimum for the WikiTaxi reader, 128 MB recommended for the importer (more for speed).
    Storage space for the WikiTaxi database. This requires about 11.7 GiB for the English Wikipedia (as of 5 April 2011), 2 GB for German, less for other Wikis. These figures are likely to grow in the future.

WikiTaxi usage

    Download WikiTaxi and extract to an empty folder. No installation is otherwise required.
    Download the XML database dump (*.xml.bz2) of your favorite wiki.
    Run WikiTaxi_Importer.exe to import the database dump into a WikiTaxi database. The importer takes care to uncompress the dump as it imports, so make sure to save your drive space and do not uncompress beforehand.
    When the import is finished, start up WikiTaxi.exe and open the generated database file. You can start searching, browsing, and reading immediately.
    After a successful import, the XML dump file is no longer needed and can be deleted to reclaim disk space.
    To update an offline Wiki for WikiTaxi, download and import a more recent database dump.

For WikiTaxi reading, only two files are required: WikiTaxi.exe and the .taxi database. Copy them to any storage device (memory stick or memory card) or burn them to a CD or DVD and take your Wikipedia with you wherever you go!
BzReader and MzReader (for Windows)

BzReader is an offline Wikipedia reader with fast search capabilities. It renders the Wiki text into HTML and doesn't need to decompress the database. Requires Microsoft .NET framework 2.0.

MzReader by Mun206 works with (though is not affiliated with) BzReader, and allows further rendering of wikicode into better HTML, including an interpretation of the monobook skin. It aims to make pages more readable. Requires Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime, which is not supplied with the download. Also requires Inet Control and Internet Controls (Internet Explorer 6 ActiveX), which are packaged with the download.
EPWING

Offline Wikipedia database in EPWING dictionary format, which is common and an out-dated JIS-standard in Japan, can be read including thumbnail images and tables with some rendering limitations, on any systems where a reader is available (Boookends). There are many free and commercial readers for Windows/Mobile, MacOSX/iOS (Mac, iPhone, iPad), Android, Unix/Linux/BSD, DOS, and Java-based browser applications (EPWING Viewers).
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