That's great that the Swahili version is available offline! A great step
forward for the project.
One thing I'd note (and this was a big discussion a few months back on the
India list): when we have a full encyclopedia dump - without any sort of
quality assurance or monitoring - we ought to be careful regarding the use
and distribution. Of course, there are always typos and factual errors at
any given point on Wikipedia, but when we pull that content off the Internet
and make it static, I believe we have a certain responsibility in providing
the best information possible. For example, imagine a school with an
offline version of Wikipedia that is full of stubs and errors: it may ruin
those teachers' impressions of the source, and could potentially misinform a
whole classroom of students.
Just wanted to throw these thoughts out there as you continue to brainstorm
ways to use the Swahili version of Wikipedia :) Maybe you should consider
making a Wikipedia for Schools version of Swahili! ....
Jessie
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:26 AM, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Good news,everyone behind that,well done.On how we can
advertise it no
ideas for now but during the next wiki Saturday I will be having one,two
many.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, David Mugo <raidarmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is some really good news, especially for our
friends in Tanzania,
this could go a long way.
David.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen(a)sil.org>wrote;wrote:
Hey friends,
Have you seen this:
http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/wikipedia_sw_all_04_2011.zim.torrent
Looks like the Swahili wikipedia is out for use with Kiwix. Any ideas how
this might be used? Distributed? Advertised? It sure is relevant for
Wikimedia Kenya as Swahili is our national language!
Excitedly yours,
Oliver (aka BT)
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