Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images 151
First time accepted submitter gnosygnu writes "Want your own copy of English Wikipedia with images? Got 100 GB of disk space? Then open-source app XOWA may be of interest to you. The project released torrents yesterday for the 2013-11-04 version of English Wikipedia. There's 100 GB of sqlite databases containing 13.9 million pages, and 3.7 million images — readable from any Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X system. Image downloads for other wikis are building, but you can still use XOWA to read the text-only version for other wikis like Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote and 660 more. Next time you find yourself stranded without the internet, you can pull out your own copy of Wikipedia for use."
Re:Rats. It won't QUITE fit on a microSD card... (Score:3, Informative)
...yet. But I guess most phones won't easily read sqlite databases yet, either. I suppose it won't kill me to lug around a full-sized SD card.
Still looking forward to the library-of-Congress-on-a-card from Rainbows End.
Most phones _won't_? Four out of five smartphones today have sqlite preinstalled and ready for use: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/sqlite/package-summary.html
Re:2013-11-04 (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, ISO 8601 dates (YYYY-MM-DD) are unambiguous: far better than the ambiguous AA/BB/YYYY notation, since Americans interpret it as MM/DD/YYYY but in some other countries it's regarded as DD/MM/YYYY.
As an added plus, a lexical sorting of YYYY-MM-DD dates is also a temporal sorting. Not so with either of the other two formats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 [wikipedia.org]