Great - thank you, Martin! I will pass along the information for Wikipedia 0.8, and also reach out to the Wikipedia for Schools team to see what their progress is.
Jessie On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Martin Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Jessie, > > Our last official release done by the EN:WP Wikipedia 1.0 team was Version > 0.8, released in March, 2011. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Version_0.8<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_0.8> > > We are starting to work on Version 0.9, but we are awaiting a response > from Erik Moeller regarding servers for hosting WikiTrust (used to filter > out vandalism). We do at last have some new people to run our bot, and > they are putting together an article list at the moment. If everything can > progress without holdups, I think it's realistic that we will have a new > collection ready for launch by this summer. > > However, that will be another GENERAL release which has not been filtered > for kids (though WikiTrust allows us to avoid vandalized versions of > articles). I notice that the video shows the use of the 2008 "Wikipedia > for Schools" that was put together by User:BozMo + volunteers, and released > through a UK children's charity (in consultation with the 1.0 team). I'm > not aware of any new releases for kids, but it would be great if we could > do one. > > Regards, > Martin > > Martin A. Walker > Department of Chemistry > State University of New York at Potsdam > +1 (315) 267-2271 > [email protected] > > > On 2/26/2013 11:57 AM, Jessie Wild wrote: > >> Hello all - >> >> RACHEL[1], a project of World Possible focused on getting open >> courseware and educational materials into remote areas via an offline >> repository, is updating their materials and is hoping to get an updated >> version of offline English Wikipedia. Has there been any advancement in >> this by the Wikipedia 1.0 team? I haven't heard for awhile, so am not >> sure how to respond to the below request from Noberto! >> >> FYI, here is a cool video of a class using Wikipedia via the RACHEL >> repository: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=qsiJH64zEe4&lr=1<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsiJH64zEe4&lr=1> >> >> Thanks and hope all are well - >> Jessie >> >> [1] http://worldpossible.org/**index.php?option=com_content&** >> view=article&id=70<http://worldpossible.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: *Norberto Mujica <World Possible>* <[email protected] >> <mailto:norberto@**worldpossible.org <[email protected]>>> >> Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:35 PM >> Subject: Re: Repository distribution >> To: Jessie Wild <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> >> Hi Jessie >> >> Hope you are doing great. I was releasing 2 new versions of RACHEL this >> past weekend, and I was wondering if there is a new version of Wikipedia >> offline, like 3 years old we have in our RACHEL repository. >> How is your project doing? >> >> Cheers >> Norberto >> >> -- >> /Jessie Wild >> Learning & Evaluation / >> /Wikimedia Foundation/ >> / >> >> / >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in >> the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >> Donate to Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/**> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Offline-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/offline-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/offline-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l> > -- *Jessie Wild Learning & Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
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