<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi All,</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0064c1"><br></font>We are happy to announce that WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools has kicked off with a great start. For OWIS-FULL we want to compile a set of 7000-9000 articles that will fit in a single DVD.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0064c1"><br></font>Planned sequence of action is as follows:<br><ol><li>Set up the framework for the WikiProject. <b>Done</b></li><li>Select articles for OWIS-FULL, subject-wise. -<b> In progress</b> - <i>Open now for 7 subjects.</i></li><li>Create table & inspect each article carefully for tags, issues and work needed, subject-wise.</li><li>Sort out all the article problems, subject-wise.</li><li>Submit to a jury for proposed changes eg maps, deletion of inappropriate material etc.</li><li>Hand over to tech team which takes articles and compiles them into an offline Wikipedia.</li><li>While OWIS-FULL is being prepared, each subject set once completed will be released separately to the environment.</li></ol></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0064c1"><br></font>For selecting articles for OWIS we're using articles included in SOS Children's Village Offline Wikipedia as the base articles. From this base we're deleting the articles that we think are not so relevant to Indian students and add articles that are more relevant to them. The aim of this step is to take the existing SOS list and convert it into a balanced set of articles list that will give adequate and balanced exposure to both the aspects - Indian and international, for Indian School students. For this we are also using the syllabus of CBSE 9th to 12th to help us identifdy the school relevant topics that may be missing. <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Over 33 volunteers have started narrowing down the list of articles that will be added to OWIS-FULL. We are currently working on following 7 subjects: Arts, Business Studies, IT, Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry. Please refer to the table below to view progress of OWIS in absolute number terms:<br></div></div></body></html>