On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:24 AM, shantanu choudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Here is the link to a project http://code.google.com/p/offline-wikipedia/ . > I have been working on this idea from last two months or so.Although in this > ever-connecting world via internet, this idea seems to be obsolete, but > right now we are far away from that situation(atleast 2 years). And untill > then i think this application might prove handy. Target of this project is > to come out with DVD distribution, having all the content of english > wikipedia, and if some-one wishes to install it, it should be able to do so > in less then 5G space(One can give that much space given the cheap rates of > memmory now a days) and finally make it good enough that it can make upto > this link http://download.wikimedia.org/dvd.html .
What we really need is a way to update the downloaded content periodically. Wikipedia content changes everyday and one does not wish to download several GB when only a few MB might actually have changed. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
