Even though, there are some people who don’t like the idea of open source encyclopedias and spreading the knowledge for free, defending their point of view by the phrase: “Every knowledge costs money”.
But due to the popularity of Wikipedia projects and its contributions, we can see that the majority of people rely on Wikipedia information, and like to use it. In most of cases, looking for some famous person via Google, the first link you get will be from Wikipedia.
Now, Wikipedia goes “offline”, you can download 2500 hand-picked educational articles stored on a CD via Bittorent .