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Posted by Gamewizard71 
Wikipedia
March 17, 2010 08:10PM
Wiikipedia
Online and offline versions would be nice.
Re: Wikipedia
March 17, 2010 10:39PM
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Gamewizard71
Wiikipedia
Online and offline versions would be nice.
How would you be able to connect to wikipedia's server when you're offline?
I must not understand what you're saying.

Also, couldn't you just use the internet channel?
Re: Wikipedia
March 18, 2010 01:23AM
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WaxyPumpkin72
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Gamewizard71
Wiikipedia
Online and offline versions would be nice.
How would you be able to connect to wikipedia's server when you're offline?
I must not understand what you're saying.

Also, couldn't you just use the internet channel?

People have been known to download ALL of Wikipedia and write a browser for it. One example is from iPodLinux back in the day
Re: Wikipedia
March 18, 2010 10:34AM
[en.wikipedia.org] you can download a dump of all articles here. You could build a reader around that.
Re: Wikipedia
March 18, 2010 05:36PM
wow -

Current revisions only, no talk or user pages. (This is probably the one you want. WARNING: 5.6 GB compressed, up to 20 times that size uncompressed.)

and

All revisions, all pages WARNING: expands to several Terabytes of text. Please only download this if you know you can cope with this quantity of data
Re: Wikipedia
March 18, 2010 08:43PM
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scanff
wow -

Current revisions only, no talk or user pages. (This is probably the one you want. WARNING: 5.6 GB compressed, up to 20 times that size uncompressed.)

and

All revisions, all pages WARNING: expands to several Terabytes of text. Please only download this if you know you can cope with this quantity of data

Yeah. If it wasn't for that, I would've been one of the people who carried it around on their iPod =p
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