This is a desktop-first low-distraction wikipedia mirror. The code isn't super actively maintained and won't win any beauty pageants, but it's an interesting project I'm sharing the sources for posterity.

The system requires JDK20.

To build the code, run the following command

$ ./gradlew assemble distTar

The output will be build/distributions/encyclopedia-1.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.
Unpack it somewhere.

To create an articles database, download an appropriate Wikipedia Zim File, en_all_nopic is a good choice for production, en_100 for testing.

Before serving the data, the zim file needs to be converted into a SQLite database. Convert the file to an articles database articles.db by running the command below

$ encyclopedia-1.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/encyclopedia convert file.zim articles.db

This will take a few hours if it's the full Wikipedia dataset.

To serve the articles, run

$ encyclopedia-1.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/encyclopedia serve 8080 articles.db

Change 8080 to the port you want to serve the traffic from. At start-up the server constructs a trie used in searching, this will take a few minutes.