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Wikipedia Releases Offline CD
An anonymous reader writes "WikipediaOnDVD, with cooperation with the Wikipedia community, has released its first offline test version. The articles were selected by Wikipedians and reviewed for accuracy, vandalism, and importance. Nearly 2,000 core Wikipedia articles will be sold on compact disc to give people without a net connection access to highlights of the popular web resource. The CD can be purchased or downloaded online via their site or the torrent."
I pick 77 as the number of articles on the CD that will be wrong
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This reminds me of a retail cd drive that came with no printed installation instructions, the manual was on a CD.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Wikipedia on CD was already taken by a guy providing only 1.44 MB floppy images.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Now my information can be wrong AND outdated.
What is this...offline?
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If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.