Assam has traditionally had a problem with
infrastructure and Internet
access is a problem. Someone who is supporting Amtron has asked the
Foundation if we can give them an offline version of Wikipedia to
pre-load onto these computers. Given that it is for 15-16 age group, it
does need to be of appropriate content.
Uh? What sort of Wikipedia content could ever be unappropriate for 15-16
years old boys and girl? I can't imagine any. :-/
:-) Would suggest we err on the side of caution. majorly on the side of
caution.
Nemo
FYI, OLPC has an offline activity called "WikiBrowse" which has been
used in a Fedora-based operating system. It has already been
distributed on >300,000 laptops, mostly in Peru, also in Rwanda and
Uruguay (there are Spanish and English versions).
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WikiBrowse
I put together the article list (including the blacklist) for these
laptops, which go out to 6-12 year olds. (I don't know whether it's
been changed since May 2008.) I can tell you my general guideline was
"would a bunch of children gather around the laptop to snicker at an
article?" I wanted to avoid the nightmare scenario of an upset teacher
and angry parent.
"Sexualidad humana", "homosexualidad", and "pedofilia" were
included,
but not "masturbación", "sexo anal", "sexo oral", or any
porn stars. I
figured children that age did not need "instructions on sex", but I
did not want to censor article about sexual relations that (in my
judgement) seemed to have social importance. Here's a link:
http://mad.printf.net/blacklist2
I'm not aware of any complaints, and the activity is one of the
favorites with children and teachers. Since you have an older age
group that is becoming sexually active, I would recommend you be less
strict than I was.
- Madeleine