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Making Wikipedia available anytime, anywhere

Mark A. Shiffrin and Avi Silberschatz, The Industry Standard02.13.2008
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is a former Connecticut state consumer protection commissioner.

Avi Silberschatz is Sidney J. Weinberg Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Yale.

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Sounds like a noble goal, but isn't wikipedia huge? How does one put it all on a thumb drive? Or alternatively, if only part of it is to be put on a thumb drive, how does one decide which parts to pick?

Brian Fraley
Brian Fraley Feb 13 2008 | 07:05PM #

As of the latest dump of Wikipedia (1/7/2008), the entire content (in compressed form) can fit on a 4 GB thumb drive. There are tools available to decompress the content on the fly. In today's market, a 4 GB thumb drive is available online for under $20. The latest dump of Wikipedia (Jan. 7) is available at http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/. The content file is enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2. It is compressed with BZIP so that it shows a size of 3.2GB.

Mark A. Shiffri...
Mark A. Shiffri... Feb 15 2008 | 03:25PM #

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