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hacker · 08-26-2007, 10:59 PM

There's NO WAY that the TomeRaider version of Wikipedia is including images, not unless they're excluding 99% of those images from their version.

I have the full archive of Wikipedia mirrored here and the images from 2005 alone are 70 gigabytes uncompressed. Even if you could compress every single image by 99%, that's still an enormous archive, not including the text of each article..

The 2007 version of Wikipedia's images is 300 gigabytes alone.

It simply can't be done, not on current Palm devices with current storage. Even an 8gb SDHC card won't hold text+images.

There are some ways to do it (Plucker can do inter-pdb links for example, so you can have one-letter-per-pdb and link between them), but its still a problem.

08-26-2007, 10:59 PM	#7
hacker Technology Mercenary Posts: 617 Karma: 2561 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: East Lyme, CT Device: Direct Neural Implant	There's NO WAY that the TomeRaider version of Wikipedia is including images, not unless they're excluding 99% of those images from their version. I have the full archive of Wikipedia mirrored here and the images from 2005 alone are 70 gigabytes uncompressed. Even if you could compress every single image by 99%, that's still an enormous archive, not including the text of each article.. The 2007 version of Wikipedia's images is 300 gigabytes alone. It simply can't be done, not on current Palm devices with current storage. Even an 8gb SDHC card won't hold text+images. There are some ways to do it (Plucker can do inter-pdb links for example, so you can have one-letter-per-pdb and link between them), but its still a problem.