Hey fellas,
I have been trying to find a way to upload and embed an entire offline version of the Wikipedia into Moodle. Has anyone tried this before or knows how I might be able to accomplish this?
In reply to ZALAAN Org
Re: Adding an offline version of the Wikipedia to Moodle
by James Steerpike -
Possible - yes. Initially I thought it was totally impractical but it could be a resource for non-internet connected students.
This link shows you how to download approx 14Gb of content which expands to about 60 Gb, not an impractical size. Download Mediawiki which loads up the content - text only, English, no revisions or talk pages. Create a link to your wiki and you are away.
Pictures, maps and videos are in the Tb range - so it will not be so colourful but still useful.
In reply to James Steerpike
Re: Adding an offline version of the Wikipedia to Moodle
by ZALAAN Org -
Great! I have already downloaded the wikipedia dumps (xml), was just not sure what I could use on the Moodle end. Thanks, will give this a try immediately!
In reply to James Steerpike
Re: Adding an offline version of the Wikipedia to Moodle
by ZALAAN Org -
Do you have a step-by-step guide to accomplish this? For some reasons, I can't figure out why the Wikipedia dump is not showing with text only, and not XML code.
Thanks!
In reply to ZALAAN Org
Re: Adding an offline version of the Wikipedia to Moodle
by James Steerpike -
I haven't done it but looks like you set up https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki with a database and then import the XML dumps into the database. You may find more help on a Mediawiki forum.
Offline for who? Do you mean that you want a copy running on your server or a copy available for download by your users (ouch!).
I'm struggling to see the point to be honest.
However, if you must... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Offline for people without internet, and want a copy to run on the server. I am building an intranet box with courses and other content so people can access it offline in local schools. Similar to what these people have done https://worldpossible.org/rachel/
Hope this helps.
In reply to ZALAAN Org
Re: Adding an offline version of the Wikipedia to Moodle
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Look for projects like the Pirate Box https://piratebox.cc/ or RACHEL https://worldpossible.org/rachel/. They have nothing to do with, but can be in the same server. Discussed in the sub-thread under "Moodle Installation in Rural Area" https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=353602#p1466359.
In reply to Visvanath Ratnaweera
Re: Adding an offline version of the Wikipedia to Moodle
by ZALAAN Org -
Thanks, this is resourceful!
I was hoping that his discussion was about changing the Moodle wiki activity to one can be replaced by MediaWiki, because that is what I need. I want to be able to link words from questions to wiki articles automatically. Or even just export Wiki pages and import them as a glossary entry.
I do not have your need, but I understand what you are asking. However, just as you want to use MediaWiki, there are others who would want this ability for the many other wiki products, blog products, content management, etc. You can run these products side-by-side on your server, but the integration that you want is a lot to ask for. But don't let me discourage you, it is always fine to let your desires be known. I did do a quick search of the Moodle plugin database, using "mediawiki," and I do see some plugins. But all of this is beyond my level of expertise. Maybe others will provide more comments to you.
(As you might know, the Moodle docs use MediaWiki.)
In reply to Melissa Newman
Re: Adding an offline version of the Wikipedia to Moodle
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
That is not what the subject line says. Whatever. The https://docs.moodle.org/en/Glossary_activity is made for this.
In reply to Visvanath Ratnaweera
Re: Adding an offline version of the Wikipedia to Moodle
by Rick Jerz -
I agree, the subject says "offline" whereas (it appears to me) the discussion talks about replacing Moodle's internal wike with WikiMedia. Let's see if the OP brings this issue into better focus.