Already at the beginning of 2007, with Wikipedia reaching levels of global audiences, the quality of the articles, in order to build and the content was already higher than the prodigious online library of Germany, Brockhaus. Through this type of milestones, but mainly because of its accessibility, Wikipedia has become the tool of first consultation at the time of deepening on a specific topic, taking advantage of internal links and ramifications arising from each article. All this vast ocean of information is accessible by typing an address in the browser ( poor William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk ), but this connection requirement implies limitation or inability to access when you're on a plane, work, street or any other place where you do not have an internet connection available. Wikipedia realized this, and do not live as advertising, have provided a link to do a full download of Wikipedia, to read offline.
From now on, the entire contents of Wikipedia might be in your hard drive or flash drive, ready to refer to it when the connection is cut or you're traveling in the back of a comfortable car and want to enlighten you. The packet format files openZIM has a size of about 10 gigabytes, which can be downloaded for free via the BitTorrent network . The impressive thing, besides the ridiculous amount of information available on your local drive, is that the package will also include Wikipedia's sister projects, such as Wiktionary (a dictionary of Wikipedia) and Wiki (which is a compendium of sources primary). It also includes non-wikipedia content, that until we finish the download does not discriminate.
In the full flush of Wikipedia, do the items come complete? No. The files will not bring Zim images, since the packet size increase to more than 100GB and that is something no one will never download except for an institution or agency such as "Association of People Who Do not Use the Internet." Needless to say, the mathematical tables and special graphics pages if available.
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