Magnus Manske wrote:
The DVD contains de.wikipedia in a special format for the DirectMedia Reader (Windows, Linux, Mac?), XML, and several PDA formats (TomeRaider), AFAIK. It also is filled up with images.
I think that that's a good format, which accounts for most circumstances imaginable; it's unlikely then the the english wikipedia would be able to fit on in this format then - being about twice the size of the German one.