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

Wed Mar 23 20:55:18 UTC 2005

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I would like to remind everyone that the German Wikipedia has just been
published on a combined CD-DVD-set, at a price of about 10 Euros.

The DVD contains de.wikipedia in a special format for the DirectMedia
Reader (Windows, Linux, Mac?), XML, and several PDA formats
(TomeRaider), AFAIK. It also is filled up with images.

The CD contains just text and a special bootable Linux, thought to be
useful for a quick lookup when the computer is turned off (Linux-CD
boots faster than Windows).

Magnus

Poor, Edmund W schrieb:
> 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
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