On 6/23/11, Hisham Mundol hmundol@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hisham Mundol
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On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Hisham Mundol, 23/06/2011 11:54:
T*here are 19,000 laptops*that will be distributed in this initiative. (These are on Ubuntu Linux - and very reasonably configured.)
How much disk space do they have? It shouldn't be too difficult to add a Kiwix installation with English language (and indic languages) Wikipedias ZIMs, if there's space enough.
320GB so space isn't a problem.
Assam has traditionally had a problem with infrastructure and Internet access is a problem. Someone who is supporting Amtron has asked the Foundation if we can give them an offline version of Wikipedia to pre-load onto these computers. Given that it is for 15-16 age group, it does need to be of appropriate content.
Uh? What sort of Wikipedia content could ever be unappropriate for 15-16 years old boys and girl? I can't imagine any. :-/
:-) Would suggest we err on the side of caution. majorly on the side of caution.
Nemo
FYI, OLPC has an offline activity called "WikiBrowse" which has been used in a Fedora-based operating system. It has already been distributed on >300,000 laptops, mostly in Peru, also in Rwanda and Uruguay (there are Spanish and English versions). http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WikiBrowse
I put together the article list (including the blacklist) for these laptops, which go out to 6-12 year olds. (I don't know whether it's been changed since May 2008.) I can tell you my general guideline was "would a bunch of children gather around the laptop to snicker at an article?" I wanted to avoid the nightmare scenario of an upset teacher and angry parent.
"Sexualidad humana", "homosexualidad", and "pedofilia" were included, but not "masturbación", "sexo anal", "sexo oral", or any porn stars. I figured children that age did not need "instructions on sex", but I did not want to censor article about sexual relations that (in my judgement) seemed to have social importance. Here's a link: http://mad.printf.net/blacklist2 If I recall correctly, I also quickly went through the images by hand and tried to pull any explicit photographic images (photos of genitals) -- this task wasn't too hard since we weren't able to include that many images (the final activity was 200MB total, 100MB for 20-35k articles, 100MB for 3k images).
I don't think there's been any major complaints, and the activity is one of the favorites with children and teachers. Since you have an older age group that is becoming sexually active, I would recommend you be less strict than I was.
-- Madeleine
PS - I'm reposting this from my meprice@gmail.com account, I sent earlier from mpball@gmail.com, but it got held up because my mpball address isn't the one subscribed to offline-l. I suspect it will still bounce form the wikimediaindia-l list, though.