Does anyone know a way to put a (reduced) offline-version of the wikipedia on the 770?

Wikipedia offers static html dumps on download.wikimedia.org/static.
The german wikipedia dump is 1.4GB compressed with 7z and uncompressed it is probably way way way bigger than 2GB (somewhere i have read that a 1.9GB english 7z is 27GB uncompressed).
And this does not include any images! (AFAIK)
I would not hesitate to buy another 2GB Card to have the wikipedia with me all the time because many times i walk around and wonder about things i see and it would be super-awesome if i could look it up immediately.
Now, do you think one could format the Card with this compressed filesystem thingie which the 770 uses internally and can anyone possible guess how much space you could save this way if all you put on it are html-files?
html seems to compress nicely, right?

http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

They've got a readable format that clocks in at around 1.1GB for an English wikipedia set (admittedly an older one, 5/2006.)

FTR those aren't static HTML, they're an XML format that MediaWiki can import. Running MediaWiki on the 770 is certainly possible, it's just a bad idea.

Are you suggesting to take those ebooks and import them into a full mediawiki installation on a 770?
That does not only seem like a bad idea to me but more like insanity

Doesnt look good.
The 2 most promising projects, wik2dict and wiki2plucker seem to be abandonend or not updated since months.
The commercial readers are not available for the 770 and the static html is way too big (>15GB for the german wikipedia) even if you would put it on a jffs2.

I was referring to the dumps they offer.

jffs2 is Journaling Flash FileSystem version 2. Squashfs is what you're looking for.

No, I'm saying that porting the concept of encyclopodia would work, weighing in at around a gig and change.

aleksandyr, can you do that by next weekend ?

But there is new hope, i just tried squashfs and it compressed a 180MB dir with html-files from the static wikipedia down to 21MB.
The full german static wikipedia uncompressed was around 20GB, im still cutting stuff out like discussions and user-pages (just what i could see scrolling by that looked unnecessary) and i guess it will go down to like 15GB.
That would result in 1.7GB with squashfs :-)

Assuming this all works out i would have to get squashfs-support into the 770's kernel, does anyone know how to do that?
I know how to compile a kernel but i neither have the kernel-config nor do i know how to create that image-file which is flashed into the 770.

There is a german mobil offline Wikipedia with 790 MB for:
Palm OS, Symbian OS, Pocket PC 2000/2002/Windows Mobile 2003, Windows 95 until XP and Windows CE

http://www.libri.de/shop/shortcut/wikipedia

link from:
Kostenloses Wikipedia-eBook für Handy, PC und Handheld
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78634

You need a mobipocket reader for this one and this doesn't work on the 770 because
a.) the reader is not available for 770 and they dont care to make one
b.) fbreader can read un-drm'ed mobipocket ebooks but not this one because it uses a unsupported compression method.

There is a HowTo about making your own kernel on maemo.org but i have not yet managed to patch the kernel with squashfs. The patching reports no problems but the squashfs-support is not there :-(