Some Wiki links
Monday, March 21, 2005 (02:00:00)

Posted by watts

I've been a fan of the Wikipedia for a year or so now. In case you don't know what it is, the Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that is openly edited by anyone. It's primary mission is to provide a high quality free encyclopedia to everyone in their own language. The articles are exceptional considering it is all community driven.

The reason this post came up is because as some may know, I have a new Pocket PC. My welcome home present to myself was a Dell Axim X50v. I'm having fun finding software for it and one piece of software is Tomeraider. It is a document reader (shareware) with excellent search capabilities, great compression, and image support. I found a guy who developed a script that will compile the Wikipedia database and image store into a Tomeraider document, making it small enough (500MB) to fit on a memory card and read on your Pocket PC. He compiles the database twice a year, but provides instructions for those who want updates on a more regular basis. There are many other Tomeraider ebooks available as well as sister Wiki projects. See below for the links:

Tomeraider - get the reader software here

Memoware - get free ebooks here

Wikipedia for Tomeraider
Wikipedia compilation instructions - learn how to compile the Wikipedia database on your own

Wiki stuff:

Wikipedia - free encyclopedia
Wikinews - free content news source
Wiktionary - free online dictionary
Wikispecies - free directory of species
Wikimedia Commons - repository of media files
Wikibooks - free open content textbooks
Wikimedia Cookbook - open content cookbook...add your recipes
Wikisource - repository of open source text