[Wikireader] english wikireaders and 0.7

[Madeleine Ball]

The XO (the laptop produced by OLPC) has 1GB of space. 300-400MB of  
that are taken up by the system, leaving 600-700MB for other stuff.  
Our 100MB target is pretty significant in this context.  :-)

   - Madeleine

On Sep 7, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Andrew Cates wrote:

> One question: could someone let me know why you are trying to make
> this so small? Space on a laptop cannot be much of a problem can it?
> We are at about 3G and 5400 articles partly because we think quite a
> lot of the use for children is in the images (we have taken an
> intermediate image size). Text and thumbnails we reckoned (and some of
> our volunteers are teachers) were likely to be much less appealing and
> text on the pictures isn't readable in the thumbnail versions on quite
> a few graphs etc.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Chris will soon send out a link to the new activity for people to
>>> download onto their XO.
>>
>> Here it is; it'll appear once it's finished uploading (should be  
>> 98MB):
>>
>>   http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/enwiki/WikipediaEN-1.xo
>>
>> SJ, there's no blacklist being applied at all -- since we're down to
>> 8000 articles, perhaps it's plausible to look through each article  
>> name
>> and pick out the obviously inappropriate ones?  Here's the article
>> list:
>>
>>   http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/enwiki/en-g1g1-8k.txt
>>
>> The "About Wikipedia" page linked from the portal page needs to be
>> replaced with an English version, I'm not sure where to get the same
>> kind of text in English from.
>>
>> We decided to skip a local image cache because of the meagre article
>> count, because it takes a while to prepare and review, and because a
>> net connection will often be available to our users this time around.
>>
>> Thanks all,
>>
>> - Chris.
>> --
>> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
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