Wikipedia

[Samuel Klein]

Hello Ed,

Welcome! We're including versions of the schools-wikipedia, and working
on topical slices.  See:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice

A spanish version of the schools-wp is high on the todo list.

Cheers,
SJ


On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Ed Montgomery wrote:

>
> Hi! :-)  New lurker here...
>
> As a newbie, I don't know if this has been discussed
> before, but I'd like to throw out this suggestion just
> in case it hasn't.
>
> There is a project which has produced a very nice
> version of wikipedia for students, schools, etc.  I
> think it is an excellent choice for educational
> projects such as the OLPC, and should be used before
> students 'graduate' to the 'adult' full online version
> of wikipedia and all that that entails. It can be
> downloaded and used on any computer (which can handle
> at least 725 MB of data for the 'lite' version! :-))
>
> I'd recommend that this be placed on the server
> versions of the OLPC computers for use in the
> schools,communities, etc.  And if there are some
> really keen translators out there, this would be an
> excellent starting point for them to produce content
> (i.e. a free, localized online student encyclopedia!
> :-)) in the local language, etc.
>
> Take a look at:
> http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1548
>
>
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