German Wikipedia DVD on P2P networks
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'''[[Wikinews:2005/April/11|April 11]], [[Wikinews:2005|2005]]'''  The German Wikipedia DVD is a popular item on European FTP sites.

The DVD project with [[w:Directmedia|Directmedia publishing GmbH]] was built from the March 3, 2005 [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-Distribution#Download database archive], and has been packaged as ISO image files to be made available online.
[[Image:UofErlingen server load.png|thumb|250px|[http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/server/load.png Graph] of the server load on release of the German Wikipedia on DVD images]]
When the news was [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/58428 reported] @ heise online, [[w:FTP|FTP requests]] to the University of Erlangen quickly overloaded the 622mbit connection server. The average load is still above 482.39 compared to 20 before the announcement.

In the afternoon, the FTP server [[w:de:Belnet|Belnet]] joined in also hosting these files which can also be downloaded by using the peer-to-peer file transfer software [[w:Bittorrent|Bittorrent]].

The DVD image is 2.7 Gigabytes in size, and includes browsing software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The download is large, but is also available from DirectMedia for about [[w:Euro|€]]10 on DVD - although their initial printing of 10,000 sold out within 3 days.

Stimulated by the success of this DVD project, several English news services have raised the question of when an English DVD of Wikipedia will be available.

== Related News ==
* [[:de:Deutsche Wikipedia-DVD im Netz|Deutsche Wikipedia-DVD im Netz]] 11.4.2005
* {{Wikinews|title=German Wikipedia DVD sells out first 10,000-copy run|date=April 9, 2005}}

== Sources ==

* {{source|url=http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39194162,00.htm
|title=Wikipedia planning a DVD version
|author=Ingrid Marson
|pub=ZDNet UK
|date=April 07, 2005, 17:05 BST}}
* {{source|url=http://www.chip.de/news/c1_news_14963385.html?tid1=9226&tid2=0
|title=Wikipedia: DVD-Lexikon gratis zum Download
|pub=Chip Online
|date=11.04.2005,  17:17
|lang=de
|author=}}
* {{source|url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/58428
|title=Wikipedia-DVD zum freien Download
|pub=Heise Online
|date=11.04.2005 15:02
|lang=de
|author=}}

== External links ==
* [http://dieser.torrent.wird.ihnen.praesentiert.von.hackfabrik.de/wp_1_2005.iso.torrent Bittorrent source of DVD Images]
* [ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/mirrors/wikipedia.de/ FTP source from University of Erlingen]
** [http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/server/ University of Erlangen server statistics]
* [ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/wikipedia.de/ Belnet source]

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'April 11, 2005'  The German Wikipedia DVD is a popular item on European FTP sites.

The DVD project with Directmedia publishing GmbH was built from the March 3, 2005  database archive, and has been packaged as ISO image files to be made available online.
 Graph of the server load on release of the German Wikipedia on DVD images
When the news was  reported @ heise online, FTP requests to the University of Erlangen quickly overloaded the 622mbit connection server. The average load is still above 482.39 compared to 20 before the announcement.

In the afternoon, the FTP server Belnet joined in also hosting these files which can also be downloaded by using the peer-to-peer file transfer software Bittorrent.

The DVD image is 2.7 Gigabytes in size, and includes browsing software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The download is large, but is also available from DirectMedia for about €10 on DVD - although their initial printing of 10,000 sold out within 3 days.

Stimulated by the success of this DVD project, several English news services have raised the question of when an English DVD of Wikipedia will be available.
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