Sure, Wikipedia may be one of the best places on the internet to find information on just about anything in a hurry, but what about when you're stuck in an elevator during a blackout and you can't remember who wrote The Republic? Relax! Pocket Wikipedia provides quick access to important articles offline - and on just about any kind of device.The download includes about 24,000 images and over 14 million words covering about 5,000 articles. Each one has been carefully hand-picked from Wikipedia's massive repository of community-assembled knowledge to avoid some of the more important omissions from Wikipedia's own Cd-Rom version Pocket Wikipedia is currently available for Windows, Linux, and PocketPC only.
Want it? Keep in mind the old adage "All good things come to those who wait." None of the mirrors we found were all that fast, but it's too good a download to ignore.
[via Best Freeware and Lifehacker]
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6-30-2008 @ 5:09PM
Gav said...
I'd love to see a BlackBerry version of this :D
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6-30-2008 @ 6:48PM
Dagwood said...
I use this on my pocket PC all the time. I do not have a data plan, and this is perfect for looking stuff up.
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6-30-2008 @ 7:50PM
chrisaroz said...
I guess it's nice if you don't have data (like dagwood), but why not just bookmark this on your device?
http://pda.en.wapedia.org/
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7-01-2008 @ 1:02AM
Amit said...
I wonder, if I can use the latest wiki xml file and integrate into this one so that I have all of wiokipedia in offline version. The xml file siez is 3.9 GB and located at :
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/
Any sugestions?
Thanks.
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7-04-2008 @ 12:30PM
Paul Cull said...
Has anyone been able to get this working in the eeePC? I copied the WikipediaL and database files but get the message "error while loading shared libraries: libglib-1.2.so.O: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
I though the idea of a one-size-fits-all Linux version sounded too good to be true...
Paul
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