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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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