Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance. I have no recollection of what it was called or where it was available from. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is there anything new along these lines that is being produced for distribution in resource-poor settings?
Richard James
Somwthing like this < https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/13/offline-access-medical-information/%3E ?
Aaron
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, 20:25 Richard James, richardjam@gmail.com wrote:
Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance. I have no recollection of what it was called or where it was available from. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is there anything new along these lines that is being produced for distribution in resource-poor settings?
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Are you thinking of one of these?
One Laptop per Child's WikiBrowse http://one.laptop.org/about/software
Wikipedia Zero https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:01 AM, UY Scuti uyscuti.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Somwthing like this https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/13/offline-access- medical-information/ ?
Aaron
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, 20:25 Richard James, richardjam@gmail.com wrote:
Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance. I have no recollection of what it was called or where it was available from. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is there anything new along these lines that is being produced for distribution in resource-poor settings?
Richard James _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
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In addition to internet in a Box, there is also WikiFundi for offline editing: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/05/10/offline-access-wikipedia-wikifundi/
You can create a whole bunch of different subsets of offline content with Kiwix: http://www.kiwix.org/
Cheers,
Alex
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:05 AM, A B abritton1630@gmail.com wrote:
Are you thinking of one of these?
One Laptop per Child's WikiBrowse http://one.laptop.org/about/software
Wikipedia Zero https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:01 AM, UY Scuti uyscuti.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Somwthing like this https://blog.wikimedia.org/20 18/03/13/offline-access-medical-information/ ?
Aaron
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, 20:25 Richard James, richardjam@gmail.com wrote:
Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance. I have no recollection of what it was called or where it was available from. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is there anything new along these lines that is being produced for distribution in resource-poor settings?
Richard James _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
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Do you mean Wikipedia Zero? http://www.wikiafrica.net/wikipedia-zero-free-access-to-wikipedia-on-your-mo...
Launched 2012, ended 2018 https://www.cnet.com/news/wikipedia-zero-ends-data-free-access-for-developin...
Jos Damen
2018-06-26 16:54 GMT+02:00 Richard James richardjam@gmail.com:
Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance. I have no recollection of what it was called or where it was available from. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is there anything new along these lines that is being produced for distribution in resource-poor settings?
Richard James
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Hi Richard,
Might you be referring to Jason Griffey’s Library Boxhttp://librarybox.us/ (modeled after Pirate Boxhttps://piratebox.cc/faq)?
-Jen -- Jen Waller Director, Open Initiatives & Scholarly Communication University of Oklahoma Bizzell Memorial Library 401 W. Brooks St., Room 243 Norman, OK 73019 405.325.7998 jenwaller@ou.edumailto:jenwaller@ou.edu
From: Libraries libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Richard James richardjam@gmail.com Reply-To: Wikimedia & Libraries libraries@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 9:56 AM To: "libraries@lists.wikimedia.org" libraries@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [libraries] Wikipedia-in-a-box
Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance. I have no recollection of what it was called or where it was available from. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is there anything new along these lines that is being produced for distribution in resource-poor settings?
Richard James
Hi Richard,
We, at WikiProjectMed Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med, are manufacturing Internet-in-a-box https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB). This holds medical content and then some, and is a hotspot that 30 ppl can access.
Cheers, Shani Evenstein Chair, WikiProject Med Foundation.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Waller, Jen jenwaller@ou.edu wrote:
Hi Richard,
Might you be referring to Jason Griffey’s Library Box http://librarybox.us/ (modeled after Pirate Box https://piratebox.cc/faq)?
-Jen
--
*Jen Waller*
*Director, Open Initiatives & Scholarly Communication*
University of Oklahoma
Bizzell Memorial Library
401 W. Brooks St., Room 243
Norman, OK 73019
405.325.7998
jenwaller@ou.edu
*From: *Libraries libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Richard James richardjam@gmail.com *Reply-To: *Wikimedia & Libraries libraries@lists.wikimedia.org *Date: *Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 9:56 AM *To: *"libraries@lists.wikimedia.org" libraries@lists.wikimedia.org *Subject: *[libraries] Wikipedia-in-a-box
Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance. I have no recollection of what it was called or where it was available from. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is there anything new along these lines that is being produced for distribution in resource-poor settings?
Richard James
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Forgot to mention that if you're describing 4-5 years ago, you probably remember Kiwix https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix_-_Wikipedia_Offline, which has kinda morphed into IIAB.
Shani.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Shani Evenstein shani.even@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Richard,
We, at WikiProjectMed Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med, are manufacturing Internet-in-a-box https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB). This holds medical content and then some, and is a hotspot that 30 ppl can access.
Cheers, Shani Evenstein Chair, WikiProject Med Foundation.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Waller, Jen jenwaller@ou.edu wrote:
Hi Richard,
Might you be referring to Jason Griffey’s Library Box http://librarybox.us/ (modeled after Pirate Box https://piratebox.cc/faq)?
-Jen
--
*Jen Waller*
*Director, Open Initiatives & Scholarly Communication*
University of Oklahoma
Bizzell Memorial Library
401 W. Brooks St., Room 243
Norman, OK 73019
405.325.7998
jenwaller@ou.edu
*From: *Libraries libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Richard James richardjam@gmail.com *Reply-To: *Wikimedia & Libraries libraries@lists.wikimedia.org *Date: *Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 9:56 AM *To: *"libraries@lists.wikimedia.org" libraries@lists.wikimedia.org *Subject: *[libraries] Wikipedia-in-a-box
Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance. I have no recollection of what it was called or where it was available from. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is there anything new along these lines that is being produced for distribution in resource-poor settings?
Richard James
Libraries mailing list Libraries@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
Richard James, 26/06/2018 17:54:
Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance
I suspect you mean the WikiReader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
Nowadays, Kiwix does the job rather well on most platforms.
Federico
+1 to what Shani said
main articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/App
watch the video https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-08-05/Specia...
development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-10-23/In_foc...
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:24 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Richard James, 26/06/2018 17:54:
Four or five years ago, I had a neat gadget that was a stand-alone, non-networked Wikipedia instance
I suspect you mean the WikiReader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
Nowadays, Kiwix does the job rather well on most platforms.
Federico
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