That sounds interesting, but I am not sure I fully understand. Is it a clever hack where the menu system in the DVD is used for showing the articles or are the articles made to "movies" on the DVD, making it a 6000 chapter long movie?

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2014-04-09 1:22 GMT+02:00 Victor Grigas <vgrigas@wikimedia.org>:
Hi everyone,

Last year, I got in touch with a programmer currently located in India who works for Microsoft. His team developed a DVD-video of the Wikipedia for Schools fork.


The dvd plays on a normal dvd player and a TV. The dvd could be made available as a disk image torrent file that anyone could burn to a dual-layer DVD, and sell in any kiosk around the world.

The DVD hasn't been released because of the liability issues with content that his employer (Microsoft) is concerned about, and unwilling to go out on a limb on. Other than that, he tells me that his team is totally into sharing this with the world.

I just received a copy of this DVD and its a clunky prototype, but it works on my computer as a video-DVD. Unfortunately my home blu-ray player doesn't recognize the DVD +R DL format. 

Thought I should share this with you all :)

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