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Repeating Chrome extension error "failed to redirect"

Occasionally, when opening a wikipedia page I get this type of error in Chrome: Warning: This extension failed to redirect a network request to http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lymphoma because another extension (HTTPS Everywhere) redirected it to…
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kiwix is creating a index of wikipedia even when i downloaded the portable 46 GB wikipedia which has index files already

I downloaded the portable version of Wikipedia the complete one.That was about 46.32 GB which includes about 11 GB of index files under D:\kiwix\data\index\wikipedia_en_all_02_2014.zim.idx But when i try to search in kiwix it asks me to create…
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Can someone with a Kobo e-reader test if Wikilinks work when viewing Wikipedia on Pocket or its browser?

I'm looking for an e-reader to read Wikipedia, ideally that is not very costly, is relatively repairable, and is run by a company with some environmental ethos (here's my original question about that). It looks like Boox and Kobo are the best…
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How to hide irrelevant languages in Wikipedia in Firefox

Is there any way i can hide irrelevant languages in Wikipedia in Forefox browser? I want to hide everything except English and Ukrainian for instance so i do not have to scroll on every page up and down every time i need to switch language of an…
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How to make Wikipedia forward to article instead of going to search

I recently updated to Win10, using chrome as always I found that Wikipedia doesn't forward to an article anymore when I type in correct word but forwards to search results instead. It also doesn't do auto-complete when writing in query box, it ought…
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Sorting a Wikipedia table by numerical value in a text document?

I've been working on a 3474 line table. Getting the information was easy, capturing the needed information from public online sources. But I came across a problem. The table is by default sorted alphabetically, since the first item in the table is…
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How do I access wikipedia offline from command line?

I want to open up an offline version of wikipedia from the command line with a specified article (and preferably a window size and position as well). I've downloaded wikipedia dumps in several different formats including xml, plain text and zim. I…
Rory A Campbell
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Downloading Wikipedia

How can I download a specific set of the Wikipedia database? In particular, I'm interested in downloading all articles that fall under the mathematics portal and possibly the computer science portal. How can I do that?
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How to find articles in Wikipedia Windows 8 App?

I just used Windows 8 for the very first time yesterday. I can see that Microsoft has changed how a number of things are done. Most of the time, a quick Google search will answer my questions. However, I'm stuck on something simple. I downloaded…
Vivian River
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Trouble Unzipping Wikipedia Dump

My use case is I need to parse text from wikipedia articles. There is a dump available at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20221001/ that contains the files I want. Essentially the articles are broken up into several pairs of compressed files: an…
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Downloading wikipedia database for offline use

Here there are many ZIM files: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/ I want complete English Wikipedia with images... which one should I download? What is the difference for example between en_all_maxi and en_all_mini? What en_100…
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Ripping or downloading large number of selected pages from wikipedia

I require only subject related articles from wikipedia i.e. ,not the entire database but specific pages, for offline viewing and reference purpose. the download page of wikipedia allows download of meta content or entire data base which contains…
Aryan Gupta
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Wikipedia Offline with Mac OS X 10.4 PPC?

I've been searching around for this and have come up against a wall of dead links. I have a PPC-based eMac that has OS X 10.4 and I would like to get an offline copy of Wikipedia (the reduced-content Simple English would be fine) on it because it…
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Can someone explain the steps shown in this response whereby I wish to remove Wikipedia citation numbers before copying and pasting text in MS Word?

I saw a response to the similar question at; response by Stuart McLaughlin Whereby Stuart McLaughlin suggested this; Create a new browser bookmark and copy the javascript code below into it - when you want to copy some text from wikipedia, just…
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Wikipedia small writing on surface pro

When I use the English version of Wikipedia on my Surface Pro it apparently thinks I have a large screen resulting in the display of unreadably small writing. I have two Surface Pros both with this problem. What is causing this?
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