Talk:Wikipedia on CD/DVD

–It is pointless to decide what format an offline wikipedia encyclopedia should take, for any such port would be better than no port at all. So please consider making an .exe version of wikipedia, just as there is an exe version of all other encyclopedias, such as Encarta, for those of us without day to day internet access would greatly appreciate it.

 Thankyou and goodbye.

Many different formats on many different devices from simple phones to DVD players. -DVD's for looking up in your living room no internet needed. (DVD set updated yearly). -web browsing versions on the net. -Phone and hand held devices possible of connecting to 3G networks or brief answers with no connection. -Car GPS version for information service. -Bootable version as a stand alone operating system.

Exe version wouldn't function on other platforms than Windows, quite probably not even on Win16 or Win64 if it would be compiled as Win32 application. My best bet would be plain html dump of the whole database without discussions. Almost every computer has a web browser capable of browsing static files from CD/DVD so this would be a lot more likely to work multiplatform. --B-D_ 11:07, 21 November 2005

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Check Damn Small Linux for bootable CDs (Ernesto.villarreal A - T gmail.com )

Is there really currently no way to simply download or order the data on DVD? I'm not interested in if it should be a .exe, a bootable CD, a bunch of HTML files. For my own personal use, I'd like to have the DB data (including images) so that I can experiment with different ways of accessing the data, different GUIs etc. Then there is also the bigger issue of making sure that the data isn't just sitting on one server somewhere, where it could disappear at any time due to all sorts of reasons. The page currently isn't very helpful at all for people who just want to know if or when the data is made available. 122.57.130.204 14:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

This page is largely inactive these days, that's why it's not too helpful. There are regular dumps of the different projects, though the English Wikipedia is absolutely huge if you want the entire 2.5 million articles. Which project do you want to download? If it's the English Wikipedia, I'd recommend posting your request at w:Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, where there are many people more technically qualified than me. If you have a specific application in mind, we'd probably want to recruit you! Walkerma 03:57, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

IRC meeting on English Wikipedia Version 0.7 release

We will hold an IRC meeting at #wikipedia-1.0 on Monday, August 11th at 1900h UTC. Complete details are on the main 1.0 talk page, please sign up there. Walkerma 17:28, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia offline

I have always felt that any professional using the technology of PC or Laptop computers day in and day out, should have access to all important and critical information available to them offline as well as online.

This of course would eliminate any downtime of not being able to query for information when it is most needed - simply because there is no Internet access or the "Internet" or ISPs are down.

If there is any place where you can obtain detailed and correct information on any given subject, it is Wikipedia.

It is in my opinion the only application that covers it ALL and should be provided offline as well to professionals who need information on the spot no matter what.

Yes, I would be willing to pay a price for this and the same should be updated periodically, at different levels, let's say an update every three months for the casual user, and on up to the power user who can update Wikipedia on a weekly basis as well.

Wikipedia is by far one of the most powerful resources of information out there.

Wikipedia on Holographic Versitiale Disk

While The collection of all earth's knowledge will never fit onto a single Compact Disk, Digital Versitile Disk, Or Blue Ray Disk,the Wikipedia database with all it's images, sounds etc, would take up terabytes if not petabytes, this means thousands if not millions of DVDs or Blue Ray disks pre copy! a new standard mentioned on Wikipedia may be the solution. The Holographic Versatile Disk is in its draft phase, when completed a HVD disk will be capable of holding an amount anywhere from 6 terabytes or 6,000 gigabytes the equivalent of 300 Blue Ray Disks or possibly it theory up to 1 Peta-byte or 1,000 Terabytes the equivalent of 5,000 Blue Ray Disks. This storage Media Would Be Efficient For transporting such a large database as Wikipedia to an end user. This task dose not sound capable untill at least the year 2020. --Koman90 04:23, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

How-to

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Please include links to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_content_from_Wikipedia and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML Thank you! 99.27.201.226 18:08, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done --Church of emacs talk · contrib 16:25, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Suggestions

• Have an "opinion box" on a page to submit CD/offline requests (with theoretical donation amount?)
• Consider separately the most frequent AND highest-end requests for publication
• Have the material published on re-recordable media
• Include active link for regular updates of data (when available, convenient and necessary)
• the active link should have upload capability for Wiki page Maintainence
• consider making such a solution available for Wikias, other Wiki projects
• frangible portions such as Portals make an excellent starting point for public/private school use and seed-material for textbooks, e.g. Wikibooks (with included active links?)
• disable offline editing to prevent asynchrony/revert wars?
• (really out there) remote calls to CD drives for data recovery or comparison?
• think out all the abuse modes BEFORE implementation :)

--TheLastWordSword 14:40, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Trying to spread Wikipedia For Schools Offline Edition ; need help

Hi, I'm hosting a ready-to-DVD package of Wikipedia for Schools Offline Edition (WFSOE) on http://wikipediaforschools.4shared.com .

It was originally created by kiwix.org but it was one contiguous .zip file by direct download; after I had downloaded it the main schools-wikipedia-full-20081023-rc5.zim file in it had turned out to be broken. I got the .zim file from elsewhere and fixed it on my end.

I've split the 2.6GB package into 27 parts of 100 mb each using 7-zip, so that it's easier for people on slower or interrupted connections to download. Once downloaded and unzipped, you have a 2.6GB folder with an autorun that can be directly written to any DVD or USB Drive and then it can run the Wikipedia For Schools anywhere (pre-indexed, btw). This is a Windows version - and here in India at least, most of the schools where I want to proliferate this have Windows OS.

I got together with some wikipedians in Mumbai, India and we've started a grassroots movement to take the wikipedia for schools to all the computers that kids have access to, but which don't have full time access to an internet connection. This wiki page currently serves as the focal point: http://education.wikia.com/wiki/Wikipedia_For_Schools_Offline_Edition

I need help - committed individuals and organizations that can download their copy or meet me in Pune, India and copy it, and start spreading it as far and wide as possible. Also, someone with a mighty internet connection can make a torrent and start seeding it - that would be awesome. And finally, please spread the word. Please contact me on email: nikhil.js(at)gmail.com, twitter: @nikhiljs or on my Talk page. Nikhilsheth 02:51, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Edit request

After the link http://www.copy4freedom.de/index.php?id=6, in the page, put "(Dead link)" after it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ItsMeBrandonSky (talk • contribs) .

•  Done. Mathonius (talk) 02:24, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Cleanup

The page needs cleanup: we need to weed out outdated stuff, move Kiwix -- the official tool -- somewhere more prominent and easy to find, to make it less frustrating for those seeking a usable, up-to-date and well-supported solution. Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 21:26, 12 March 2012 (UTC)