Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offline-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Martin A. Walker walke...@potsdam.eduwrote: This is an excellent project! If there is anything that the English Wikipedia 1.0 team can do to help, please let us know. If you are looking for a list of important Indian topics to check through, I'd propose using a slightly amended toolserver list sorted by points rather than importance, available here: http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi??namespace=importance=score=sorta=Scorerun=yespagename=sortb=Qualityprojecta=IndiashowExternal=onlimit=250quality=offset=1 Good suggestion, Martin. Question about this: is there a way to hide those articles that are already included in the selection? That is, is there a way to filter OUT those articles which are included in the Wikipedia for Schools selection? I am not sure if that database is integrated into this selection tool or not, but it could be helpful in parsing out which articles would be additive. - Jessie -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offline-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!
What a great opportunity! Thanks for spear-heading, Hisham. Some notes below, which I'd love thoughts on: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I understand that Wikipedia for Schools http://schools-wikipedia.org/ is readying for release sometime in July 2011 - and the timing couldn't be better. July 2011 was the most recent update we heard from User:BozMo, who is the lead for SOS Children's Wikipedia for Schools (WPFS) project. It would be great to get an update from him on this timing! The list of current articles can be seen here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools The primary changes in the version pending release in July 2011 will be newer revisions of these articles. *Can you help us out with * *a) how you could help on adding the additional articles that this initiative would require?** (You could also sign up on the **Volunteer Page* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Volunteer_Page*)* WPFS is geared to match the UK curriculum, which is very useful but undeniably lacking in its coverage of other geographically important topics, such as history geography of India. To that end, if we had a list of ~200 additional articles which *should* be included in an educational encyclopedia for India, we can add these to the updated version of WPFS. Kenya is also doing a similar thing (they are recording their list on the offline projects pages of metawikihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics). * Would anyone be interested in spear-heading this for India-specific content? *I have some ideas for how this could be facilitated (namely, by leveraging the work done by the Wikipedia 1.0 team and the India WikiProject [1], so reach out to me directly!! [[1] Toolserver: http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yesprojecta=Indianamespace=pagename=quality=importance=score=showExternal=onlimit=100offset=1sorta=Scoresortb=QualityfilterRelease=onreviewFilter=0releaseFilter=0 -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offline-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!
Hisham Mundol Wikimedia India Programs skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter : @mundol On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Hisham Mundol, 23/06/2011 11:54: T*here are 19,000 laptops*that will be distributed in this initiative. (These are on Ubuntu Linux - and very reasonably configured.) How much disk space do they have? It shouldn't be too difficult to add a Kiwix installation with English language (and indic languages) Wikipedias ZIMs, if there's space enough. 320GB so space isn't a problem. Assam has traditionally had a problem with infrastructure and Internet access is a problem. Someone who is supporting Amtron has asked the Foundation if we can give them an offline version of Wikipedia to pre-load onto these computers. Given that it is for 15-16 age group, it does need to be of appropriate content. Uh? What sort of Wikipedia content could ever be unappropriate for 15-16 years old boys and girl? I can't imagine any. :-/ :-) Would suggest we err on the side of caution. majorly on the side of caution. Nemo ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
