Mirro the Wikipedia at your local

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server
mysql-client php5-mysql phpmyadmin
mkdir ~/wiki/
cd ~/wiki/
wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.10/mediawiki-1.10.0.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /var/www/w/
sudo tar xzf mediawiki-1.10.0.tar.gz -C /var/www/
cd /var/www/mediawiki-1.10.0/
sudo chmod a+x config

$ mysql
mysql> USE mysql;
mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('new-password') WHERE
user='root';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
add user 'wikiuser' and database 'wikidb' and set privileges

wget http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070402/enwiki-20070402-pages-articles.xml.bz2
bunzip2 -k enwiki-20070402-pages-articles.xml.bz2
wget http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/~dev2c/mwimport.sh (OR
http://freizl.googlepages.com/mwimport.sh)
chmod +x mwimport.sh

cat enwiki-20070402-pages-articles.xml | ./mwimport.sh | mysql -f -uwikiuser -ppassword wikidb

php mediawiki/maintenance/refresheLinks.php