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[Bjoern Hassler <bjoern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hamish, hi all,

There's also OpenZIM,
http://www.openzim.org
which seems to have wikimedia sponsored development! (I've added this  
to the wiki too.)

All the best,
Bjoern

On 1 Jul 2009, at 20:27, mish wrote:

> > >  * Wikipedia
> > >
> > > One of the most popular websites in the world, this is a free  
> > > content
> > > encyclopedia. They provide database dumps so you can create a CD  
> > > or DVD
> > > of static HTML pages. People can then distribute this disc and  
> > > everyone
> > > can have an encyclopedia on their desktop. Camara ( http://www.camara.ie
> > > ) has been distributing a skinned wikipedia for a few years and it's
> > > very succeful and popular.
> > >
> > > You could make a selection of wikipedia, or the whole thing. What  
> > > would
> > > be the size of it?
>
> A friend of mine spent some time looking into this and wrote it up at:
>
> http://tinderblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/offline-wikipedia/
>
> http://tinderblog.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/offline-wikipedia-part-2/
>
> The first one in particular has a list of various approaches he found.
>
> Hamish
>
>
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