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Offline Wikipedia -- Only 3.5GB

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

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Not only is this just simply kewl, but I imagine scholars looking for a way to measure changes in the wikipedia will love this.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).