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Need Wikipedia when you can't get online? Get Wikitaxi
by Jay Hathaway Aug 12th 2008 at 10:00AM
With Wikitaxi, you can snag the entire database of Wikipedia -- or, if you're pressed for bandwidth, the Simple English version is a lot smaller -- and read it offline on your Windows machine. It comes with a separate importer app that you can point at a database, and then you can use the main Wikitaxi app to run searches on it. Those clever people at Lifehacker suggest that you carry it around on a USB drive: then you can prove that buffalo thing to your friends at a moment's notice!
[via Lifehacker]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jash Sayani said 11:34AM on 8-14-2008
Just what I was looking for......
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Jack Johnson said 12:05PM on 8-15-2008
This is a great idea! - they don't have any problems with Wikipedia about doing it?
In a recent interview Jimmy Wales, (co?) founder of Wikipedia, said that "the actual distribution, actually thinking about how to get this to people, that's a bigger trick, right? If you have broadband Internet access, that's it, you're done" but that they needed to work on getting all that information to a broader audience. Maybe distributing offline copies that only get updated once a month (week?) could be an interesting idea.
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Jack Johnson said 12:09PM on 8-15-2008
You can find the interview at: http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=152655&f_src=flffour
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mgthantzin said 11:20AM on 8-16-2008
can't get to import xml.bz2 file... 'importer' not compatible with vista???
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