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Yes. Plenty of ways to do that. Google is your friend.

You can even buy a handheld piece of hardware ( that runs forth! ) if you like. http://www.thewikireader.com/

"WikiReader uses only open software. All of our source codes are available at http://github.com/wikireader. Please email code@thewikireader.com for more information." http://thewikireader.com/

[checks articles] ....ugh. Is that seriously it?Three months?

Wear retention on flash is kind of a bummer for time capsules and Stargate style ancient repositories of knowledge. An old school PC with a bios in mask rom should be able to boot up given power in hundreds of years time, assuming the hard disks don't have some sort of failure mode that happens when they are un-powered.

A modern machine has firmware in flash and also a flash drive. Both of which would end up blank in a few years to a few decades depending on technology with more recent being worse.

If I were rich I'd pay for some mask Roms of Wikipedia and bury them around the world. That way if the shit hits the fan and we end up in a dark age people could dig them up when civilisation is rebooting.

The other option would be some optical disks.

http://www.cd-info.com/archiving/kodak/index.html

If the industry standard specification of BLERmax less than or equal to 220 had been used as the end-of-life criteria, then this same analysis would predict that with 95% confidence, 95% of the population of Kodak Writable CD discs will have a data life of greater than 12,000 years.

Aw yeah! 12,000 years is about the time from neolithic revolution to now.

Then again a masked Rom in one of those wikipedia readers seems like you have the advantage of not needing to find or build a working CD Rom drive. Mind you, whoever digs it up is still going to have to work out how to build a display because I don't see any display technology lasting for 12,000 years underground.

The Kindle is a Linux tablet. And it is also a bit primitive, and quite expensive.

There is WikiReader (about $100). It is quite basic and serves a very specific purpose. I doubt it will every catch on as a product, but I agree with the spirit of the thing.

At how much Farenheit the digital records combust? Wont be so dark that ages, at least while the fire last.

A century later, we will still will find buried snapshots of wikipedia on devices like WikiReader.With paper books making copies is expensive,to one kind of device usually, and takes a lot of space. Digital records,in the other hand,could be put in a lot of ways, but what must be preserved is how to decode or interpret it (using open formats for it could help a bit there).

If the wikireader can be hacked to support this, I'm sold. I believe that if the prices of readers can be cut down to less than one hundred dollars they will become much more popular.

http://www.thewikireader.com/media/pictures/wr_hand1_small.jpg

Oh, that's funny. I see something on that page that doesn't look anything like a latin character set.

The databases are the same, I don't see why this wouldn't be able to read a non-english wikipedia dump.

Free updates via download, or $29 for Two 4gig SD cards to your door a year. http://www.thewikireader.com/update.html

This should be helpful

(It is a bunch of photos of the device.

Also, you can order it now.

The file on the device is probably compressed in a way that makes a diff impractical.

Plus they can charge for their proprietary format! From their store:

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