* Manuel Schneider <[email protected]> [Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:14:56 +0100]: > have you ever looked into openZIM? The ZIM file format offers a highly > compressed storage which includes a fulltext search index. > > Currently there are Kiwix as a GUI reader application and the zimreader > as a webserver available, along with special readers for embedded > devices etc. > > The Wikimedia Foundation is working on providing regular ZIM dumps of > their wikis along with the SQL and XML dumps. > > /Manuel > Certainly, a regularly updated compact offline version would be great for many purposes (eg. educational). I hope that reader will be available for different platforms, including the mobile ones (mobile internet here in developing countries is not so cheap comparing to ADSL). Dmitriy
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