Even though Srikanth had clearly explained most of the things, let me add
few things.
I am very much aware of Wikipedia CD/DVD project (and other offline
releases) across the world and about the different initiatives surrounding
it. In fact I was the project coordinator for the Malayalam wikipedia
Dear Nikhil (& et all),
Request to NOT take it personally. Whatever you are
doing is a great initiative and really appreciable. But these comments are
not to undermine your efforts.
Srikanth's reply should completely explain why Shiju
was trying to ma
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 00:50, Nikhil Sheth wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I had a great time reading the blogpost. Very amusing. But had to clarify
> some things before we all pick up our pitch-forks and torches, so..
>
>
> http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.com/2011/03/clarification-about-wfsoe-and-english.html
Hi All,
I had a great time reading the blogpost. Very amusing. But had to clarify
some things before we all pick up our pitch-forks and torches, so..
http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.com/2011/03/clarification-about-wfsoe-and-english.html
I can fully understand the knee-jerk mechanism of reading one e
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:31 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
wrote:
> 1) Releasing Wikipedia CD for School and school children needs larger review
> of content. Not all content on Wikipedia may be suitable for children. If
> any such controversy occurs on content on Wikipedia to children, we may risk
> a
Hi Tinu,
Thank you for bringing this post to notice. Shiju makes a few very
important points.
Since the dumps are publicly available and the content is licensed
under CC BY-SA (except some infringing media), users are free to
create ZIM files out of them. But some of these efforts may not be
as
Happened to jump into this blogpost by Shiju Alex "*Releasing Wikipedia CD –
few concerns*"
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/releasing-wikipedia-cd-few-concerns/
Thought it might need a larger discussion in the Wikicommunity.
Here are my take on same :
1) Releasing Wikipedia CD for Sch
