Dear Jane Le 19/06/2013 10:37, Jane Darnell a écrit : > The problem with static offline versions of Wikipedia is that it > doesn't allow any interaction at all, so you are virtually cutting off > the ability of the reader to become an editor. I am sure many people > will feel that prisoners probably don't have a lot of positive > information to contribute, or perhaps would not do this in good faith, > but theoretically there should be some channel back for them to voice > corrections or additions, possibly through some sort of local > collaboration committee? > > I think this application of Wikipedia is great, but it is also > crippled. If we had an incubator system where this type of offline > application of Wikipedia could collect edits in a daily batch process > for intermediate curation it would be good. Something like this might > also useful for education programs with kindergartens or grade > schools. We have claimed in the past that a 17-year-old can be smarter > than a Ph.D. on any specific issue, but actually, age or environment > is arbitrary, no?
I agree. The problem with life is that you will never get everything you want. The good news is: You still have plenty of opportunities and this is already a lot! More seriously: * We know this is used as an "entry door" for other cultural/educative activities by part of the prisoners * We will try to encourage prisoners to contribute and try to animate Wikipedia centric activities - similar approach as in the Afripedia project. Regarding the asynchronous contributions: This is a pretty complicated topic which (often) deals with challenging technical and cultural issues. But discussion if pretty open and new experimentations are welcome. Join us at: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l Kind regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
