This is a good thought-experiment to rerun regularly : working through what 'all human knowledge to each person in his/her own language' means (practical approximations of "all", "each", and "own", &c).
I think at a minimum, without trying to directly solve high-upkeep projects such as hardware manufacture or physical distribution, this should include making available reasonably good/complete/comprehensible * USB-key distributions * half-offline cell-phone/portable distributions * compact offline distributions (for laptops and computers) * 'full' distributions for PCbangs, net cafes, and school computer labs * the above in one- and two-language editions, All of this should be done regularly, with the best that can be done at a given time; regularly snapshotted with a process that improves over time. Someone has already suggested this isn't the best place to have this discussion. I think it's a pretty good one for at least another while, but wouldn't mind seeing a dedicated group and on-wiki discussion grow out of this and tap into the WP-1.0 and (old-school) WikiReader energy whose contributors rarely chat here. SJ (to the comment that there's not enough space on handhelds to store a 'full' WP snapshot, that's no longer true... offline readers that can keep articles compressed and Flash prices that drop faster than WP grows make it easy enough for most single languages. that said, many people for whatever reason still have a hard time downloading GB of programs or files; which is the real reason to maintain svelte subsets.) SJ On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OWPP > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/One_Wikipedia_Per_Person < > - Offline Handheld Wikipedia Reader > - Dead Tree Technology > - Wikipedia TV Also Wikipedia Radio. And don't forget distributed ideas like WP-over-DNS... https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
