Bruno Kerouanton

Cliquez ici pour télécharger la Wikipedia en Français sur votre PocketPC !

Note : Ceci est la publication d’un billet qui est en phase « brouillon » depuis le 22 septembre 2008… Oh, by the way, this is an english version of this post.

Since last week, I’m struggling to compile the latest version of Wikipedia on my PocketPC. It is a bit painful, but is worth doing it, really.

At a first glance, it may seem impossible to have the full Wikipedia on a small device like a PocketPC, but it’s possible.

The Wikimedia Fundation gives away SQL and XML dumps of all their wikipedia versions, including everything. That’s huge ! The english version XML file containing only text articles is already over 17Gb uncompressed, the french is nearly 4Gb… Needless to say that its nearly impossible to fit it on a PocketPC like that ! But there is a magical way to achieve it… It takes time but it works.

My own french version of Wikipedia, available offline, on a Micro-SD card

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