On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Guaka wrote:
On another
note, we (
http://www.slug.org.za/ ) installed Linux Thin
Client labs in ten schools today, which included a March snapshot of
en wikipedia (including pictures).
This was mostly possible because the 15 Gig required (pictures) could be
carried to the school on a hard drive (the server pre-installation).
That's nice. Is that 15 GB the entire Commons? Or just the pix from the
English Wikipdia?
It is pictures from en wikipedia.
http://download.wikimedia.org/images/ (or a version thereof at the time)
used to have the picture dump.
I have been too busy recently to chase up a more recent dump. And I need
to figure out the 'commons' thing for my downloads.
However, the 1.5 mediawiki release, and attendant database changes, mean
that I am waiting for the dust to settle before spending time getting a
new snapshot.
The old one (March) is so great anyway (for folks that do not even have
internet) that I am hanging with that for a while.
I tart it up (for schools that dial up overnight) with todays wikipedia
front page, edited to link to their snapshot.
An example can be seen at
http://esangweni.shacknet.nu/ - a school that
has a wireless (24hour) connection.
Cheers, Andy!
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