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.
http://www.sos-schools.org/wikipedia-for-schools
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 :)
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.
http://www.sos-schools.org/wikipedia-for-schools
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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Jan Ainali, 09/04/2014 08:33:
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?
See https://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=158656 It's like the menu of movie DVDs, without a movie. :)
Nemo
Correct, except there is a short movie tutorial at the beginning to teach you navigation via your remote control.
I'd love to put this on a torrent and write a blog post about it, but it's the kind of thing that the legal team needs to examine and WMF would need to make a few phone calls to Microsoft about. When you insert the disc, the first thing on screen is a disclaimer that I'm sure the Microsoft legal wrote.
It's a very clever hack.
On Apr 9, 2014, at 5:18 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Jan Ainali, 09/04/2014 08:33:
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?
See https://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=158656 It's like the menu of movie DVDs, without a movie. :)
Nemo
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