Wikipedia mobile phone free offline ebook
It is possible to have a free version for your mobile phone of the Wikipedia offline in ebook format, so you can access it at any time from your phone, as well as from other portable devices. It is very useful to have a pocket encyclopaedia to have the chance of making a quick search at any time, and with no associated internet navigation cost.
This wikipedia version was compressed using a snapshot with all the articles up to july 2008. It is a text version with hyperlinks. It does not contain images due to the great size of resulting files.
The selected format for compression is Mobipocket ebook, a free electronic book reader, (however ebooks from their site are protected and limited by DRM). The Wikipedia remains free to use and distribute despite so.
HOW TO INSTALL THE WIKIPEDIA IN YOUR MOBILE PHONE
- Download the electronic books reader specific for your mobile device from Mobipocket. (Y tested a Symbian S60 3rd Generation simple device: Nokia 6120 Classic).
- If you cannot find your device at Mobipocket, you can try to install it using the desktop version de Mobipocket. You can also try to use a Java version for non-symbian phones.
- Download for example Wikipedia spanish compressed (570 MB format tgz) thanks to the efforts of Project German WPMP.
Decompress the file with Winzip until you extract the 18 files with PRC extension (Palm Resource File). - Create a folder on your device memory card called ebooks and copy the files to that location.
- Once installed, open eBook index file (wpes) to access the articles search engine.
The Wikipedia is also available in other languages:
- German 
(1,2 GB)
- French 
(1 GB)
- Italian 
(640 MB)
- Portuguese 
(244 MB)
- Dutch 
(509 MB)
- Japanese 
(669 MB)
- The english version 
has just been released, however it is of more than 4 GB size.
It has just been released a wikipedia ebook version in Catalán 
(128 MB).
ALTERNATIVES: There’s also another reader that provides mobile Wikipedia as eBook called Tomeraider, however the reader is not free, and it does not provide a compatible version for Symbian phones like my Nokia 6120c.