There are currently several existing Wikipedia readers for the N900. However, many of them don't contain full articles, the full database, or otherwise have significant shortcomings.

I'm currently working on something based around this project: http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~tt...iaOffline.html.

There is a disadvantage with this method though. The articles.xml file that this uses is ~6GB, and the index that it builds is another 3. However, in the modern times we live in, the N900 has 32GB of storage, and my 16GB card cost about $50 AUD.

An advantage, though, will be that the end user is more easily able to create their own updated dumps.

I plan on replacing the PHP Mediawiki parser in that project with a faster Python one, as well as some Maemo specific tweaking.

It might seem overboard to have all of Wikipedia in your pocket - but so was the idea of having a Linux machine in your pocket when the 770 first came out

Any comments/suggestions/questions?