[WikiEN-l] Putting Wikipedia on a CD or DVD

Wed Mar 23 17:35:00 UTC 2005

Will Wikipedia fit on a CD or DVD?

How big is the "current article" database? (Excluding the text 
of all previous versions, because some articles have been 
modified over 500 times!)

What are Wikipedia's plans to move toward 1.0 and issue a Disk,
Book, or Multi-volume set?

How far has anyone looked into delivering copies of Wikipedia 
(in any medium) to third-world schools, as in Africa or 
Indonesia? (To show my level of ignorance: Are there even any 
public libraries in Africa?)

If Wikipedia received a donation of $100,000 - specifically earmarked
for CD distribution to Africa, COULD it do anything?

Uncle Ed