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Perfect if stuck on a remote deserted island! Must be the closest existing thing to the Hitchhiker's guide?

• r00fus 5y ago
  Hitchhikers Guide to Wikipedia? HHGTWP?
• wyldfire 5y ago
  Towel not included.
• yreg 5y ago
  I installed a reader with a Wikipedia dump (without multimedia) on the original iPhone. At the time (at least in my region) WiFi was quite rare and it really did feel like the Hitchhiker's guide and incredibly powerful. I only kept it for a few weeks though since it consumed almost all of the space. (And I imagine it was probably my language mutation, the english Wikipedia must have been too big already.)
• pronoiac 5y ago
  You might look at Kiwix, and the data sources they've indexed: https://www.kiwix.org/en/ https://www.kiwix.org/en/ (Oddly, it's crashing at launch on my iPad right now)
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• phil294 5y ago
  I'm not trying to kill the fun here, but since this thing relies on a working internet connection, it would probably be pretty useless on a remote island
  • dTal 5y ago
    You could host it locally easily enough!
    • jtsiskin 5y ago
      Yes, but you could also host a normal Postgres db easily enough
      • dTal 5y ago
        This is entirely static, so I think it's easier.
        • ric2b 5y ago
          Not entirely, the images are still loading from wikipedia.
  • anigbrowl 5y ago
    You can put a 43gb database on a $30 SD card and still have room for a bunch of movies.
    • deleted 5y ago
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  • phkahler 5y ago
    When SpaceX sends people to Mars they will want a local Wikipedia among many other things.
• exikyut 5y ago
  Sigh obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/548/ https://xkcd.com/548/