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
I'm not aware of any 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