![]() Many offline sources are easier than you might think to find online. Providing identifiers such as an ISBN, OCLC number, Open Library number or similar can help others locate physical copies, as cataloguing data can often vary from one library to another. This is especially important when using the off-line source to support a fact that might be controversial or is likely to be challenged. Use of the quote= parameter within those citation templates provides some context for the reference. This is often done by using a fully-filled out citation template such as. Provision of full bibliographic information helps Wikipedia's readers and editors find the source when they need it, and also increases the source's credibility as a reliable source. Special care should be taken when using offline sources. Sometimes a source was once online, but now is offline ( link rot). Other websites, like the Philadelphia Inquirer, only publish their content online for a few weeks. Other content providers, like The Wall Street Journal, publish their content behind a paywall that prevents non-subscribers from accessing the content. Many academic journals only make short abstracts available online. Even if the books are online, it might be necessary to consult a print edition to double-check any errors from the OCR scanning. Several ongoing projects, such as Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, NLA Trove and Google Book Search, aim at digitizing certain books or newspaper articles and presenting them online. These are often great resources for history, philosophy and literature, and they often contain information that can't be found online. It can also lead to an unfair bias against print books and print journals, where an editor's addition of material sourced from a book or print journal is reverted with the comment "Revert - I couldn't access and confirm this source online."īooks are a typical example of an offline source. However, this reliance on online sources can lead to recentism, where most articles and content are from the Internet era. There is also an additional advantage of using online sources, because it allows all users to evaluate the source and its value to the article. That Wikipedia relies extensively on online sources is not surprising, considering the relative ease of accessing such materials. Likewise, do not remove cited material merely because it is from an offline source. Don't let the fact that a printed book or journal is not available online scare you away from using them as a source in Wikipedia. While many editors use online sources, such as websites and online journals, many great sources are only available offline in printed books and paper journals. Even though Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, there is no distinction between using online versus offline sources. Wikipedia's reliable sources guideline states that articles should be sourced with reliable, third-party, published sources. ![]() Now, the only question is how this thing updates my local copy.Even though Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, and even though editors are increasingly using online sources and e-journals, printed books and paper journals that are not available online are still a reliable source. It works best on Chrome, on which you can even install the extension, Offline Wiki, to work even better. The Offline Wiki has been tested on iOS 5, Chrome, and Firefox. Type the keywords in the search box or browser through the index to find the page you are looking for. The offline access is immediately effective after the download. Download starts almost immediately after you change the setting. 1GB is recommended, which is a highly compressed dump file and an index. You can select which option from the settings page. ![]() ![]() There are two sets of data available for download, 14MB for the small version and 1GB for the larger one. Offline Wiki is a web application that saves and downloads a copy of nearly all of the textual content of the English Wikipedia locally so that it can be accessed offline without internet connectivity, which is a perfect solution to prepare this upcoming blackout. For example, get a copy of them for online access, maybe. You have the choice of taking a day off or prepare a way to get around it. It’s going to be a big deal to those whose work heavily rely on Wikipedia and can’t live with it. ![]() As you may have known, the English Wikipedia will be blacked out globally on Januto protest SOPA and PIPA. ![]()
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