http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/03/01/put-wikipedia-on-your-ipod/

Encyclopodia is software that will load Wikipedia in its entirety onto your iPod. Really. It works with a special version of iPodLinux but has a clever dual-booting system so that you don't have to get rid of your shiny Apple interface for listening to music. You can enter text for searches using the clickwheel—not the most efficient, for sure, but what did you expect?—and navigate wiki links the same way. Amazingly, the entire English Wikipedia (German and Italian are available as well) fits in under 800MB, which seems like more than a fair trade to have that much information at your fingertips. Cool.

3/2/2006 10:57:13 AM

I would have thought there was more than 800MB of data on wikipedia.

[Edited on March 2, 2006 at 11:03 AM. Reason : 800 =/= 80]

3/2/2006 11:02:24 AM

But Wikipedia updates constantly.

3/2/2006 11:08:03 AM

Quote :

"As of September 2005, a compressed full database dump (text only), including old page versions, is about 40GB. The compressed dump with only current revisions is about 1.2GB (900MB excluding talk and user pages)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediaatabase_download



[Edited on March 2, 2006 at 11:26 AM. Reason : goddamnit. replace the with : D (nospace)]

3/2/2006 11:24:25 AM

I was going to do this with a web spider soon. I already downloaded all of howstuffworks.com and its just under 200MB (no videos or other special stuff, text and images)


the real question here is how do i download wikipedia for my windows-based pda (without having to scroll all over the dam place)?

3/2/2006 11:31:45 AM

^ exactly
i don't have an iPod and even if I did, i wouldn't want to install iPodLinux on it to walk around with Wikipedia lol

3/2/2006 12:00:12 PM

yeah, and this is a little troubling

Quote :

"spent hours downloading all 700mb and configuring my ipod to work with it, but it doesnt play that nicely. when switching from one OS to the other, all user set options are forgoten; everything goes back to defualt-time, time zone, menu options. kinda annoying. "

3/2/2006 12:04:53 PM

i suppose it's only a matter of time if you can download an 800mb file with the contents right now

someone will find a way to use it

3/2/2006 1:43:48 PM

Or you cuold just get a PDA.

3/2/2006 11:13:43 PM

gay



thats why i have a PSP

3/3/2006 12:29:53 AM

i read the title and all i could think about was 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us'

3/3/2006 9:44:02 AM

found this for the pda:

http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/index.html

over two gigs though

3/9/2006 1:14:10 AM