On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
One of the major challenges that I faced was that
although the Kiwix version
was helpful, it could have been better if we had a custom-made version for
the Kenyan curriculum, since the one that was available was based on the
British curriculum, and therefore there were some topics that Kenyan
students needed but weren't there.
Agree. I have the same problem as many others do.
That's why we should invest more efforts on tools to help people
create their own ZIM file.
Secondly, I find that the use of external hard drives
being expensive and
unreliable. Expensive, since one HDD costs around €50. Unreliable because I
distrust students and how sure am I that in a month's time, the students or
teachers wouldn't have taken the hard disks and used them for their own
personal use? Also it can be easily deleted, unlike when it's on DVD.
Not sure what you point is here. Kiwix runs on everything from DVD to
USB Sticks or HDD or servers.
Here in West Africa, CD & DVD are single use only at most due to dust
and quality of hardware.
Also, some of the computers were so old and had Win XP
and somehow, the ZIM
files refused to index. I wouldn't be surprised if you get the same problem
in Zimbabwe.
Yes, this has been a long time request which have been fixed now. We
can embed the index along the ZIM file.
renaud