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Wikipedia on CD

by Terrence O'Brien on April 26, 2007 at 09:39 AM

Wikipedia on CDOnline reference resource Wikipedia is being burned to CD for use in classrooms and by people with no or limited Internet access.

For anyone unfamiliar with Wikipedia, it's kind of like an online-only version of Encyclopedia Britannica except without a long history of spectacularly annoying television ads, and without the same level of credibility or expertise. That's because instead of professional editors writing and researching its pages, each of Wikipedia's millions of entries can be edited, added to or deleted by anyone. That doesn't exclude psychos, pranksters or even you.

The advantage of this collaboration is that Wikipedia's pages can evolve along with current events. The static version, therefore, will be whittled down to just 2,000 pages that focus on such subjects as geography and literature, which don't have a habit of changing too often. The entries will also be sanitized of any crude language or other signs of vandalism.

The CD is available for $14 (plus shipping, of course!) through the project's website.

From USA Today



Tags: encyclopedia, opensource, reference, wikipedia

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