download entire website with wget

Question

I want to download the entire wikipedia to have an offline copy, I try using that command:

wget --recursive --domains --convert-links --no-clobber https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/

But it download only the first page. How can I use it?

Answer 1

Wikipedia’s robots.txt excludes wget:

#
# Sorry, wget in its recursive mode is a frequent problem.
# Please read the man page and use it properly; there is a
# --wait option you can use to set the delay between hits,
# for instance.
#
User-agent: wget
Disallow: /

Please follow their advice. In particular, you probably shouldn’t download Wikipedia using a tool such as wget, but use their offline database download instead.