Thomas Dalton wrote:
If WMF can survive for another five or so years then the first kids who get the OLPC XO machines will be seriously starting to contribute in their native languages.
How will they contribute? For a start, I think they'll be using an offline copy of Wikipedia, and secondly, they are not likely to have access to any other resources with which to research things to add to Wikipedia.
Connectibility will indeed remain a problem for some time yet.
They can contribute about their own culture, or they can interpret other useful world information into the local language.
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