The above tutorial shows you how to INSTALL Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone so that you can view it any time: even when you aren’t online!

You’ll need these files:

Wikipedia Dump (Huge!): http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/wikipedia-iphone/enwiki-20071018-iphone.tar
Wikipedia app: http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone/Wikipedia.zip

You will also need 2 GIGABYTES or more of space available on your iPod Touch. The sum of all knowledge obviously comes at great cost.

For support: http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone/

That’s how many Wikipedia has now, if you count all the articles in the 250-plus languages the encyclopedia is available in.

According to a release from the Wikimedia Foundation, the 10 millionth article was created at 5:07 p.m. PDT on Wednesday. It is a “short biography of 16th century English goldsmith and painter Nicholas Hilliard” and was created in Hungarian by a user called Pataki Marta.

The largest version of Wikipedia, the English version, has 2.3 million articles. But when counting all the others, the number swells quickly to the more than 10 million now found in the entire database.

After English, the next most popular languages are German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

See here for an article count by language.

Meanwhile, the Wikimedia Foundation said it has received a $3 million grant from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, based in New York City. The funding is meant to support expansion of outreach events and increase the quality of its content on wikipedia.

A Wikimedia release said the money would be distributed at the rate of a million a year over three years, while part of the money will go to supporting “Flagged Revisions” which function as a kind of bellwether for the quality of content found on Wikipedia. This software feature allows experienced editors to publicly and visibly grade the quality status of articles.