Re: Wikipedia on CD/DVD?

From: Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler_at_gmail.com>
Date: 18 Oct 2004 00:24:15 -0700
Message-ID: <48502b48.0410172324.47509e2e_at_posting.google.com>


Kenneth Downs <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net> wrote in message news:<bu0pkc.f5h.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net>...

> Assuming that the content is free-as-in-freedom and that you are clear to
> copy and distribute it, try wget on any Linux system. Make sure you've got
> a lot of empty space.

using wget is one of the worst suggestions for a 350000 pages project like en.wikipedia.

http://download.wikimedia.org/ is providing SQL dumps of all the pages (including the optional history of all the pages).

It's possible to convert this SQL data into static HTML pages.

However, there are much more intelligent solutions for offline distribution.

google for WINOR.

If German is your preferred language, you might consider this shiny CD-ROM useful:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Features
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD

Mathias Received on Mon Oct 18 2004 - 09:24:15 CEST

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