Wikipedia does not need any introduction to World Wide Web users as it is the most popular online encyclopedia exist. It is free and easy to use. Most prominently, it is maintained by an open community where no financial matters are involved. Even you and I can be authors of Wikipedia articles contributing for the growth of Wikipedia.

If you need to read a Wikipedia article on a particular matter, then you need to access Wikipedia site through your computer’s web browser or mobile device’s web browser. For both the methods mentioned, you need to have a working internet connection. What if you do have a working internet connection in your possession when you need to access Wikipedia; especially if you are on the go and no mobile connection can be established? Here comes the solution; Wikipedia that can be stored in your mobile devices that can be accessed anytime, anywhere.

Sounds good? Yes it is. Pocket Wikipedia is a database of 14 million words including 24,000 pictures optimized for mobile devices. You can download Pocket Wikipedia on to your computer’s hard drive and then transfer it to your mobile device’s storage. The size of the installation is about 175MB and it is one of the best deals when it comes to the value and the storage cost.

There are three versions of Pocket Wikipedia; the version for Windows Mobile operating system based devices, Windows desktop operating systems and Linux operating systems. If you want to use Pocket Wikipedia in your Windows Mobile based devices, then you need to have .NET framework 2.0 redistributable (compact) version installed and the operating system should be Windows Mobile 5.0 or later.

You can carry Wikipedia in your laptop so you have most frequently accessed articles by the users on the go. The article selection has been done by Schools Wikipedia.