[Server-devel] Schools Wikipedia

[Chris Ball]

Hi,

   >> Don’t know if anyone else has tried this, but in the
   >> Schools-Wikipedia (www.schools-wikipedia.org) is a selection of
   >> 5,000 articles

   > I like it. We need good ways to import this (and similar static
   > content) into an XS. I guess the main use case would be
   > installing it onto the XS from a USB stick. We also want to make
   > a nice wiki.laptop.org page with a list of content that can be
   > used this way...

The current Wikipedia activities already work as web servers on the
XS, and require much less space due to the content being compressed --
for Spanish, 25,000 articles and 3,000 images in 100MB.

Takes longer to render pages than static file content does, though, so
it's a tradeoff between bandwidth and storage space on one hand, and
render speed/CPU use on the other.

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child