You can download a copy of Wikipedia articles from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/. It's surprisingly small, around 15GB for all articles, and 50GB or so uncompressed.
Then just browse offline, and nobody can tell what articles you looked at.
Then just browse offline, and nobody can tell what articles you looked at.
The Wikipedia on DVD link doesn't seem to work http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/.
And I am not sure what to do with the Database backup dumps if the only thing I want is some static HTML pages, how could I get some readable HTML out of them?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#St..., and the next section. There are a bunch of programs that can do various things, and if you're on a reasonably recent computer, you shouldn't have a problem dynamically loading anything. There's even a rockbox plugin, which I used for some time, on a slow mp3 player.