[Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids

Sun May 5 18:55:11 UTC 2013

Hi everyone -

Ok a few things that people have brought up here and elsewhere:

1 - the manufacturer has said to us that the devices can come pre-installed
with whatever languages are already available :
http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ and that he would help with
other language versions (from our dumps)  if we communicated a need for it.
I mentioned this specifically: http://schools-wikipedia.org/

2 - AMAZON! - yes these are the retailers sitting on overstock, we plan to
buy whatever is cheapest first (highest impact) -- and alot of people have
supersaver shipping (user:Ashstar01 too)

3 - recycling: scroll to the bottom: http://thewikireader.com/
also the key in distribution will be to find the schools that could REALLY
USE the devices, (so that they do not go to waste) so if anyone on this
list knows schools, please share:
wikireaders4kids at gmail.com
http://wikireaders4kids.tumblr.com/suggest

4 - I hope i'm not creating any conflicts of interest by being a WMF
staffer, please know - if i do cross some line let me know and i'll correct
myself ASAP. I really mean this please contact me if you feel that there is
any COI at all.

5 - also here is the .en village pump post from a few weeks ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Free_Distribution_of_WikiReaders_to_offline_schools_around_the_world.2C_funded_by_Kickstarter.com_or_Indiegogo.com

6 - we are also looking into contacting battery manufacturers and solar
charger manufacturers to see if they would like the good press by donating
a few of their chargers & batteries to the schools that end up getting the
wikireaders.

Thanks for your interest everyone! As of me writing this, we are already at
$505 USD and I expect that alot of people are away from their computers for
the weekend and will see the campaign on Monday when they get to work.

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Oona Castro <ocastro at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi Victor,
> hope you're well.
>
> I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money.
> I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to the
> global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the fact
> that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other languages is
> not that intuitive, though it's possible.
>
> Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and make a
> contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, Egypt,
> elsewhere?
>
> The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with one
> of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I think
> you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it.
>
> let me know what you think
>
> Best regards
>
> Oona
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > All the best, Victor!
> > Abbas.
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300
> > > From: tom at wikimedia.org
> > > To: wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > > CC: wikimediabr-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
> > >
> > > That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor.
> > >
> > > I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone
> > tried
> > > to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try <
> > > http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/> sometime soon (alguém da
> > WMBR
> > > com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo).
> > >
> > > What about using their software <http://thewikireader.com/> on Linux?
> If
> > > you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are
> just
> > > for Windows and Mac stuff.
> > >
> > > I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South
> > > America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon <
> > > http://www.amazon.com.br/> site.
> > >
> > > Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the
> > hardware
> > > source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we
> > > could produce locally.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas at wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise
> > funds to
> > > > buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids
> > in
> > > > places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
> > > >
> > > > The campaign is here:
> > > >
> > http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
> > > >
> > > > The video is here:
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
> > > >
> > > > Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the
> > campaign,
> > > > please share the link with others!
> > > >
> > > > While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
> > > > entirely as a volunteer.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > *Victor Grigas*
> > > > Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0>
> > > > Wikimedia Foundation
> > > > vgrigas at wikimedia.org
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> > >
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> useful
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*Victor Grigas*
Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0>
Wikimedia Foundation
vgrigas at wikimedia.org
+1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773
149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
https://donate.wikimedia.org/