On 4/7/2011 8:30 AM, Nikhil Sheth wrote:
And I feel that there should be a full-fledged project
(worldwide, not
just pertaining to indian articles) going on for Wikipedia for
Schools, with a well-structured list of ALL articles that are going
in. Not being able to find anything. Can anyone help in how to go
about getting one set up?
I'm working on this with Andrew Cates (User:BozMo) -
the driver behind
the original Wikipedia for Schools. He gave a list of all the the
articles in Excel so it's a little messy and doesn't have links. I tried
to clean it up a bit, but it still needs some more work and definitely
isn't as useful as it should be:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools
As I think you all know, they are working on a 2011 edition of WPFS to
be released soon. Andrew said we can send him a list of additional
articles (up to 250) with permalinks that you (India) would like to have
included in the next release. He says his team could then make a
separate version specifically for India.
My suggestion: once you have the list of articles you want included, put
them in a table on this page as well.
Note: obviously, it would be ideal if the tools were available for
anyone to do this, without needing to go through an intermediary, but
unfortunately such tools do not exist yet. HOWEVER - just so you know,
the Foundation is setting aside resources to address this concern, and
hopefully tools making it easy to extend and/or modify offline
collections will be in place soon!
Jessie
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Jessie Wild
Special Projects Manager
Global Development
Wikimedia Foundation