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<p class=MsoNormal>Don’t know if anyone else has tried this, but in the
Schools-Wikipedia (<a href="http://www.schools-wikipedia.org">www.schools-wikipedia.org</a>)
is a selection of 5,000 articles with all adult content removed based on UK
curriculum but pretty useful for many English speaking countries works nicely
as an offline resource on the XS. This is useful in our Pacific islands region
where even if there is Internet, it is not sufficient or too expensive to allow
a whole class let alone a whole school browse online regularly. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>It downloads as a 3GB zipped file which expands as HTML
based files and folders. As the Browse activity seems to only accept index.html
as default, I made a copy of the index.htm “home page” so that you
have both in the root director, i.e. index.htm and index.html – this means
the home page opens by default and the home page links on the wiki content
continue to work also.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I copied it into a suitable area on the disk, in my case
/library/Schools-Wikipedia and then made that folder public with an alias “Schools-Wikipedia”.
This is done using a .conf file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>To get it up on an XO which is connected to the server, just
dial in http://schoolserver/Schools-Wikipedia (i.e. the alias used in the conf
file)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Seems to work beautifully! Some great content, great Maths
section for instance. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The thing I liked about this was the ease of access, the
content collection was available from the home page of the SW website, and with
easy instructions. The only problem was getting the 3GB download! That remains
a significant challenge in the small islands countries (in contrast, on a trip
to Australia recently I managed to download half of it over a few drinks using
the wireless provided free by a pub.... )<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Of course this is a “one-way” read only wiki –
one needs to be able to adapt, reuse, re-age, mix and translate content too! For
that we can use Moodle which has a wiki and I am told one can install MediaWiki
on the XS also.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i>David Leeming<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i>Solomon Islands </i></b><i><span style='font-size:
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