Small Wikipedia is a little project for offline wikipedia browsing with a moderate footprint and minimal dependencies
It used to run off XML dumps in old version, starting ~2005. These days, XML dumps don't nearly have enough information. However, there's now ZIM, and smallwp works with ZIM files, but with fewer dependencies and less crazy web modernism. Until SVN revision 57, it works with a very basic python 2 installation; if you'd like to browse ZIM files with a box you cannot pull to python 3, this could be your bet.
Small Wikipedia requires a working Python installation (versions 3.6 or later). For a minimal GUI, you need pygtk; otherwise, only the standard library is required.
You can also check out the subversion repository at http://svn.tfiu.de/smallwp.
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