This is indeed a very exciting project! I was
involved in putting
together the offline collection - the best link for that is
We don't just select randomly - we base article selection on importance
& quality, and we have an elaborate algorithm for selecting the article
versions that are "trustworthy" (i.e., not vandalised!)
We're currently putting together a more specialised chemistry
collection, and we could probably have a finished selection done in the
next few days. Would you like to include that?
Longer term we want to try (a) other subjects and (b) other languages.
Are there any subjects and/or languages you would like us to focus on
for the next year or two? Should we focus on Assam? I see you
mentioned subjects like history and economics - we could perhaps work
with the Indian Wikipedians to select a collection on history with an
Indian focus.
Thanks again,
Martin A. Walker
Department of Chemistry
State University of New York at Potsdam
+1 (315) 268-0234
walkerma(a)potsdam.edu
On 9/8/2011 12:11 PM, Jessie Wild wrote:
Well, thank you for the resonse: certainly better
late than never! And
in this case, though the deadline is upon us, it is fortunately not
*too* late!
The work you are doing is very incredible, and we would be happy to be a
part of it. I think our content would be an invaluable addition to your
suite of materials provided, and we'd love to make that a reality.
Currently, the solution we can offer you is two-fold:
* Kiwix <http://www.kiwix.org/>: a reader of the Wiki content that can
be installed on your Ubuntu system
* English Wikipedia Offline Edition
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPRV>: this is a set of
~45K articles which are filtered for both quality and "importance."
If this is of interest to you, we can provide you with a package
bundling these and indexing them etc. This would only give you a couple
weeks to test, of course, but we trust you will find it incredibly
useful.
I will pass these instructions along to you in a separate email so that
you can begin prototyping. Meanwhile, Hisham Mundol - the head of our
India Programs, who is based in Delhi, would be happy to meet with you
in person to talk through any questions regarding the project. Please do
let us know what you would prefer!
Thanks and thrilled about the potential here!
Jessie
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:25 AM, M K Yadava IFS <in(a)amtron.in
<mailto:in@amtron.in>> wrote:
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Dear Jessie,
I am sorry for responding almost more than a week late as i had
been
mostly traveling and attending a series of
meetings. I wish I
could
responded little earlier.
We distribute free computers (all based on GNU/Linux, currently
on
Ubuntu), and from last two years, laptops, to
meritorious
students of the
State of Assam (India) who secure >=60% marks
in the 10th
standard
examination. Every year about 15-20,000 systems
are distributed.
So far,
we have distributed 92,000+ system, and this year
about 19000+
students
are about to get benefited.
The current year's scheme is scheduled for launch on the 23rd of
September, 2011. Along with Ubuntu we bundle a host of
application
software and content for the benefit of the
students. Mostly, so
far we
have ben very successful in providing rich
application level
content for
science students. There has been carry home stuff
for students
who are
aspiring to become economists, historians,
psychologists,
anthropologists,
English literature etc.. Further, broadband
penetration being
poor in the
remote areas of the state (a survey tells that
58% of the
recipient
students belong to remote areas and come from
poor families), we
have been
thinking how we could provide wiki kind of
content to the
students offline
on the laptops to be distributed.
We shot an email several months back, and it has generated lot of
enthusiasm. However, my programme is to start from the 23rd of
September,
2011. I am not sure whether, this year also we
shall be able to
provide
some offline content. As a language, ENGLISH is
okay. We can
think of
translation at a later date.
Pl tell us how to proceed further on the issue. We have now very
little
time to organize...
Yours,
MK Yadava IFS,
MD, AMTRON
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> Hi MK Yadava -
>
> Thanks for passing along this email!
>
> I am the project manager for the Offline Wikipedia work. I'm
very
> interested
> in supporting your efforts in content circulation, and I am
eager to
> learn
> more about your project referenced below. Who are you
distributing your
> computers to? What sort of software are you
looking for? Where
exactly
> are
> you hoping to distribute?
>
> Thanks so much; I'd love to help out with this as much as
possible!
> Jessie
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:26 AM, M K Yadava IFS <in(a)amtron.in
<mailto:in@amtron.in>> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>> Sounds great! If we have sizeable content for school children
from
>> standard V-XII in humanities, science and
mathematics in
English alone,
>> it
>> will be a great service for bridging the digital divide. We
shall be
>> glad
>> to put such a content in our PC distribution program and make
it
>> operational by middle of September,
2011.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yours,
>> MK Yadava
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>> > Thanks Manuel!
>> >
>> > I think this will be a good group. I just put together a
brief
>> > presentation
>> > with kind of the general overview of Offline and how all the
pieces
>> fit
>> > together, but I can go through it quickly and allow the
different
>> pieces
>> > to
>> > fill in the blanks throughout?
>> >
>> > I'm attaching it in case others want to take a look. I put it
>> together
>> > quickly so if there are errors please forgive me (and correct
me!) :)
>> >
>> > Jessie
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Manuel Schneider <
>> > manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch
<mailto:manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi offline folks,
>> >>
>> >> we will have our Wikimedia Offline session today at 15:15 in
room
>> Tavor
>> >> (in Beit Hecht, 1st floor)
>> >>
>> >>
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_Offline
>> >>
>> >> The session was planned as an interactive workshop for all
people
>> >> interested in the offline
issues. This means that YOU are
invited to
>> >> present your project, your ideas
and ask your questions.
>> >> Interesting topics are selection of content, publishing,
storage,
>> reader
>> >> applications... and what you think is.
>> >>
>> >> There will be at least three people talking today:
>> >> * Jessie Wild from Wikimedia Foundation
>> >> * Shiju Alex from Malayallam Wikipedia
>> >> * me from openZIM
>> >>
>> >> See you there! If you have questions or want to coordinate
in
>> advance
>> -
>> >> please contact me.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> /Manuel
>> >> --
>> >> Regards
>> >> Manuel Schneider
>> >>
>> >> Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
>> >> Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free
knowledge
>> >>
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<http://www.wikimedia.ch>
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