Hi Barry,

Does the foundation have a school-edition offline Wikipedia? Or has any of the existing chapters ever come up with one that's exclusive for schools?

~Abbas.

> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 07:02:00 -0700
> From: bnewstead@wikimedia.org
> To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Kenya Framework
>
> FYI - I have Kiwix's offline English Wikipedia running on my Ubuntu
> machine right now. It works perfectly. The main challenge is that it
> takes a lot of time to download (huge file) and then index. Once it is
> on the computer though, it works great! One interim solution is to put
> the files on some USBs and mail them out. The Foundation staff is
> starting to look into solutions that will allow us to provide computer
> vendors (such as Camara) to preload it.
>
> Cheers,
> Barry
>
> On 09/30/2010 11:37 PM, Wangai Mwangi wrote:
> > An offline wikipedia, thats so cool. Count
> > me in,am so excited. The framework is ok.
> > Another meeting wld be fine.......
> >
> > On 9/29/10, Alexander Wafula<xelawafs@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I've used Kiwix before, it's one of the various softwares around that reads
> >> zim files. Linux os has become vital hence most opensource software such as
> >> Kiwix are offered in for this platform so hopefuly, we won't have
> >> installation issues.
> >>
> >> As for visiting schools with computers, I beleive thd ICT board can assist
> >> with this. They have records for such schools hence we can use them to
> >> narrow down on the school's we'll visit. They are really open towards such
> >> initiatives so hopefully, they'll share this info.
> >>
> >> So far, the framework sounds great.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Alex
> >>
> >> On Tue Sep 28th, 2010 11:22 PM PDT Abbas Mahmoud wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>>
> >>> Its quite unfortunate that last weeks meeting didn't happen. Anyway, what I
> >>> wanted us to discuss was for us to propose a framework in the way we'll
> >>> approach whatever we want to do.
> >>>
> >>> For instance:
> >>>
> >>> We were to start by experimenting with the offline Wikipedia. So, my
> >>> suggestion is that each one of us be designated a region in Kenya within
> >>> which he/she shall concentrate on. An appropriate basis of will be
> >>> designating team members with the regions from which they come from. Like,
> >>> say, if I come from Coast or Mombasa, I'll basically go to Mombasa and
> >>> assess the schools that have computers there. After knowing how many
> >>> schools we'll approach, we will then prepare our framework: timeline,
> >>> budget, methodology, etc.
> >>>
> >>> Actually, most public schools in Kenya have bought computers from Camara
> >>> (and Irish non-profit organisation that distributes computers in African
> >>> schools at a subsidised cost). These computers use the Linux (or is it
> >>> Ubuntu??) operating system as opposed to many private schools whose
> >>> computers are Windows-installed. So ofcourse, they'll be some software
> >>> issues that may arise when we want to install the offline wiki into these
> >>> computers. I'm not the software geek and I have never used offline wiki so
> >>> I really have no idea whether or not the offline wiki is compatible with
> >>> both types of operating systems.
> >>>
> >>> So, this is the draft framework that I had in mind. I hope to receive input
> >>> from you guys so that we can beef this framework up and come up with an
> >>> organised, clear-cut plan.
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards
> >>> Abbas Mahmood.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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