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____/ Homer on Wednesday 24 Feb 2010 09:17 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Nigel Feltham spake thusly:
>
>> However the dumps of full editions can be huge - the site claims the
>> English edition for wikipedia is over 150gb once uncompressed after
>> download (they mention around 20:1 compression but would still take a
>> while to get over most broadband links). That's the version with full
>> edit history though so downloading just current state should be a lot
>> smaller if you can find it in their long list of databases.
>
> [quote]
> # 2010-02-24 05:07:53 done Articles, templates, image descriptions, and
> primary meta-pages.
> 2010-02-24 05:07:53: nowiki 454942 pages (934.522/sec), 454942 revs
> (934.522/sec), 97.1% prefetched, ETA 2010-02-24 05:13:02 [max 743383]
>
> * This contains current versions of article content, and is the
> archive most mirror sites will probably want.
> * pages-articles.xml.bz2 214.0 MB
> [/quote]
>
> http://download.wikimedia.org/nowiki/20100224/
> http://download.wikimedia.org/nowiki/20100224/nowiki-20100224-pages-articles.xml.bz2
OpenMoko has made a device that can access Wikipedia (en) offline.
OLPC has the same goal, but the white-collar crime from Intel and
Microsoft is still a barrier.
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