I have converted the whole English Wikipedia to a TomeRaider file. The complete file is now available on my Pocket PC.
You will need a storage card for this: the file is roughly 100 Mb, contains 145000+ entries (including redirects) and 200 Mb of (compressed) text. I chose to strip all meta info (discussions, user pages, etc).
TomeRaider (shareware) is a blindingly fast text retrieval system for handhelds (Pocket PC, Palm*, and EPOC*) and MS Windows. Index lookup is sub second. Rendering very large articles or complex html tables may take a few seconds. Images are not supported. Hyperlinks are. Most html tags as well.
I wrote a perl script to accomplish this. Unfortunately I do not have the web space or bandwidth to offer the file for download from my site.
So either any user or the Wikipedia support team will have to redo the conversion. Conversion to a TomeRaider input file is completely automated. Conversion plus import in TomeRaider takes about 90 minutes on my 500 MHz PC.
For screen shots and additional info about how to do this yourself: http://members.ams.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia
Erik Zachte
* Not tested. I only have a PPC.