SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia together has released 2008-09 Wikipedia for Schools. This updated version has the content of a 20 volume encyclopedia - with 34,500 pictures, 20 million words and articles on more than 5500 topics.

It is useful for 8-17 year olds who broadly follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula else (more…)

How can you browse Wikipedia without connecting to internet? Well, one smart way is to dump wikipedia in compressed format on your computer and refer any wikipedia article without the need of internet.

WikiTaxi lets you do the same, it is a portable application that delivers Wikipedia of your choice to wherever you go. It enables you to read, search, and browse Wikipedia offline. No Internet connection is needed, all pages are stored in a WikiTaxi database

WikiTaxi uses compression to make sure that the database stays reasonably small. The huge English Wikipedia easily fits (more…)

Sometimes internet can be a boring place, when you are lost on ideas and websites worth visiting. Wikipedia can help you over-come this boredom by dishing out fresh Wikipedia article for your reading pleasure.

With a single click you can pull a random Wikipedia page and learn something new. Any of available 2,397,998 articles will be loaded in your web browser for absorbing reading. (more…)