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Is there any way to get just the static html pages post 2008 when they just stopped doing them? That's 6 years out of date.

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?

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You can't get the html anymore. You can download the dump (latest one is enwiki-20151102-pages-articles.xml.bz2, around 11GB), and then generate the pages dynamically.

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.

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