Wikipedia for Mobile Devices

[signothefish]

Originally Posted by captgoodhope

Where did you find this version?

Wow, it's gone up another 1.2GB since I purchased mine about a year and a half ago! The new filesize is 3.8GB!!! That's one serious file right there. Here is the page you can order it from:
http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/Order.html
This is the same person I ordered mine from (Erik Zachte). Product was delivered overseas (I live in the US), and came in a timely manner on a DVD-ROM.

[signothefish]

Originally Posted by captgoodhope

Where did you find this version?

Wow, it's gone up another 1.2GB since I purchased mine about a year and a half ago! The new filesize is 3.8GB!!! That's one serious file right there. Here is the page you can order it from:
http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/Order.html
This is the same person I ordered mine from (Erik Zachte). Product was delivered overseas (I live in the US), and came in a timely manner on a DVD-ROM.

[Gerard]

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

Just FYI, one-column mode in PIE renders the "regular" Wikipedia quite nicely. (Well, PIE in WM5 at least.)

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Oops. Guess I'd not even visited Wikipedia since getting this Toshiba e800 in November. Now that I check under WM2003SE, with OzVGA running, I see there's no such problem as I had with PIE on WM2003 and a Dell X5. The text flows very nicely, with no side-scrolls necessary.

[Miz]

Originally Posted by AndyH

Hi Gerard!

My 2gb SD card is formatted usinf FAT 32. I don't remember what I set the cluster size to. How can I check? On my old IPAQ, I had Pocket Mechanic which I think has the ability to find out, does Memmaid have that ability?

andy

You should format it in FAT16 if possible. Other things aren't very important. FAT16 improves the speed for small devices a lot. Even some digital cameras lose the video capture or burst-shot capability only because the card was formatted in FAT32.

I think there's an article around here (involving SKTools) talking about card optimization.

[bmhome1]

I have the Wikipedia 2GB size database running from SD card on my iPaq 5555, having used both Transcend 2GB and 4GB 150X SD cards. Both are equally fast even though the 2GB came as default FAT16 and 4GB as default FAT32 512k clusters. Both databases got loaded on empty cards from SD card reader. Both SD cards were defragmented on the desktop after writing the file.

I had previously tried the 2GB Wikipedia on a PCMCIA 5GB hard drive and smaller TomeRaider 3 databases from Lexar 32X SD cards. Both were CONSIDERABLY slower opening and rendering selections than the Transcend 150X cards. TR3 certainly seems to benefit from faster reading speed cards and I suspect having plenty of free RAM to run it.

[Gerard]

Originally Posted by bmhome1

Both are equally fast even though the 2GB came as default FAT16 and 4GB as default FAT32 512k clusters.

There is no such thing as a default of 512k clusters. If there were, users would quickly be calling for refunds, as such a cluster size would render the cards practically useless for the incredible waste - every 1k text file or whatever other small file would take half a megabyte of the card! I don't think an option exists for clusters larger than 64KB.

So it seems you meant 512byte clusters as the default formatting, which is usual.