On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:08:17PM +0100, Djihed Afifi wrote: > ** What is it? > > The ArabicOpenCD is a collection of open source software, some of it > already localised in Arabic, some is not, in a CD suitable for > distribution for Microsoft Windows operating systems. > What about Free knowledge too and not Free software only, I mean manly Arabic wikipedia [1]. The idea is too distribute a local mirror of wikipedia on the CD as static HTML files (or any suitable form).
There is periodic XML dumps of wikipedia database, you can access those for Arabic wikipedia here [2]. Also this page describes how to do such mirroring [3]. There is also some related links bellow [4]. -- [1] http://ar.wikipedia.org [2] http://download.wikimedia.org/arwiki [3] http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/نقاش المستخدم:Riddler [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_on_CD/DVD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian GNU/Linux user Member of Arabeyes translation team [www.arabeyes.org] My Blog: [khalid_hosny.manalaa.net] _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
