Wikipedia:Database download

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the data format?Structured collections of Wikipedia's text and media content
2. What is the licensing framework?Primarily Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA) and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
3. What is a Wikipedia database download?It is a special file that contains all the words and pictures from Wikipedia, so you can read it on your computer even when you have no internet.
4. Why do people download Wikipedia?People download it to read articles offline, to keep a copy safe, or to use the information in apps and projects.

Mirroring: The practice of creating and maintaining an exact copy of a website or data repository.
Copyleft: A licensing mechanism that requires derivative works to be distributed under the same or a compatible open-source license.
Natural Language Processing (NLP): A field of artificial intelligence focused on enabling computers to understand and process human language.