"With the local Wikipedia cache of course I have no privacy concerns."
This is one reason why bulk data downloads are (IMO) extraordinarily useful. Speed and reliability are some others.
There is no reason to limit this approach to Wikipedia. It can be applied to any data that we consume regularly. I use this approach for DNS data and some websites (= frontends to databases) I use frequently, though none of those sources facilitate bulk dowloads the way Wikimedia does.
This is one reason why bulk data downloads are (IMO) extraordinarily useful. Speed and reliability are some others.
There is no reason to limit this approach to Wikipedia. It can be applied to any data that we consume regularly. I use this approach for DNS data and some websites (= frontends to databases) I use frequently, though none of those sources facilitate bulk dowloads the way Wikimedia does.