[WikiEN-l] Want to publish English version of Wikipedia on DVD and need help/advice

[Richard Seltzer]

I publish books (mainly public domain) on CD and DVD. You can see my offerings at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat

I would like to publish a DVD that includes the full text of Wikipedia, peferably as a set of interlinked html pages (easy for a novice to use, and with no need for a database).  The DVD would also include dozens of other reference books.

I understand (thanks to Lars Aronsson) that Directmedia Publishing in Berlin (www.directmedia.de) put the German Wikipedia on DVD (ISBN 3-86640-001-2).  It sells for $10 on 
www.amazon.de, and $1 of that goes to the German branch of the Wikimedia Foundation.

I would like to do something similar for the English version. I would sell it for $12 since it includes other works as well and also since I provide free shipping inside the US. I could also contribute $1 for each DVD sold to the Wikimedia Foundation (or whatever branch of that is appropriate). In addition, I would like to update the DVD about once a month. 

I downloaded 20051105_pages_articles.xml.bz2 823 Mbytes I uncompressed that file (using ZipZag) to 20051105_pages_artcles.xml 3.5 Gigabytes

But what can I/should I do next?

The xml file is too big to open in my IE browser (and too big for any customer to open either). I was hoping to get a set of inter-linked files (similar to the way downloads of the CIA World Factbook are presented), so anyone could open a home page and navigate to the the rest.

Is there anything I can do (with my Windows PC) to convert the downloadable files to this format? Or could anyone out there in the Wikipedia community help me?

Thanks very much.

Best wishes.

Richard

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