On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Tom Parker <t...@carrott.org> wrote: > * The Wikipedia Activity doesn't have any images while offline (I haven't > ever tried it while online). The Schools Wikipedia has scaled down > versions of all images (which are about the right size to fill an XO's > screen)
Strange -- it does have images for me. Just tested -- from the homepage, I click on the Sociology link and on that page I get the picture of Auguste Compte. Both Wikipedia English and Spanish carry it. Hmm. Or do they? The images are actually being referenced from the internet. This is a regression from earlier releases of WA. When I compare WA English with WA Spanish I see the Spanish one contains a good number of images, where the English one doesn't. > * The Wikipedia Activity links to articles not included in the activity. > The schools Wikipedia does not include any links to articles not included > in the Schools Wikipedia Correct -- they are usually marked with a different colour however... > * The Wikipedia Activity is very slow on an XO-1. The Schools Wikipedia is > very fast with good wifi to an idle schoolserver Wikipedia Activity is highly compressed, so it's unzipping things behind your back. > * The Wikipedia Activity has a lot of articles that might be considered > inappropriate for some or all age groups by some cultures. I haven't found > anything in the Schools Wikipedia that I think might be considered > inappropriate, but it's search features are poor and I haven't done a > particularly thorough search. There's been some editing in WA but I do believe you might find tricky topics Given that your planned XS is fairly powerful for the task, and has abundant storage, you have another alternative: http://static.wikipedia.org/ -- it lacks search, images and content curation, but it definitely has coverage. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel