Hack Job

"This page describes how to get a (somewhat) static version of Wikipedia running on the Zaurus (and probably any other UNIX-based PDA/PC). The version is static in that it is not editable and pages are pregenerated but you will nevertheless require an http-server and a web browser on the Zaurus since the encyclopedia will be stored highly-compressed and is uncompressed using cgi-scripts. Compression reduces storage demands significantly and only thereby wikipedia becomes usable on a PDA (e.g. the German static text version of December '03 generated with Alfio Puglisi's original wiki2static.pl was ca. 210 MB, wiki2zaurus's version reduced this to ca. 38 MB). See How does it work? for more on the inner workings."