[Foundation-l] Putting the Foundation back in WMF

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Nov 23 20:01:23 UTC 2007


Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> If WMF can survive for another five or so years then the first kids who get
>> the OLPC XO machines will be seriously starting to contribute in their
>> native languages.
>>     
> How will they contribute? For a start, I think they'll be using an
> offline copy of Wikipedia, and secondly, they are not likely to have
> access to any other resources with which to research things to add to
> Wikipedia.
Connectibility will indeed remain a problem for some time yet.

They can contribute about their own culture, or they can interpret other 
useful world information into the local language.

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