On 6/23/11, Hisham Mundol <hmundol(a)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 "masturbaciĆ³n", "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(a)gmail.com account, I sent
earlier from mpball(a)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.