Broken CD
Broken Encarta 98 by imissthevelvetunderground Wikimedia has just killed Microsoft Encarta. Perhaps this is understandable when we consider that the thousands of online contributors grinding away at the creative commons mill. Wikipedia, offers 2.7 million articles in English, Google’s Knol has 100,000 and Encarta has only 42,000 entries.
http://tinyurl.com/dklexq
We recently installed Wikipedia on DVD on our network and also made a copy available on loan in our school library. It is available on the student desktops with an start menu icon next to the other 'encyclopedias' Even though this is only a 0.5 version test release, I am impressed by how popular it has become with students.
The DVD is low on eye-candy and unnecessary graphics or movies so fast to use, great for students that have run out of Internet credit, free for them to take a copy home and I am pretty sure, you can edit the content on the local version.
http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/site.php
Huge download but you only need to grab one copy to share.