Hi Andrew,
Since you ask 5500 articles 34500 images 20 million words. We think this would fill 20+ volumes of Encyclopaedia Britannica. You cannot go much further on a DVD or 4Gb memory stick unless you do what the Release Version people are doing and only include thumbnails of the images without image pages. We include the full image page cos we think the licence requires it but in the end we have scaled down the images to below full resolution but much better than thumbnail.
This is the third time around so we've had a couple of years to work out what to do. If you want to smile though go to http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/schools-wikipedia.org and add www.citizendium.org as the second graph for comparison. Given we are mainly offline to be ahead of them online has a certain sugary feeling.
Agree about child checked but we hesitated on child-friendly because the reading age of a lot of it is too high (16+).
Andrew
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
2008/10/17 Andrew Cates Andrew@soschildren.org:
thanx for help. Gone for
Curriculum-based offline Wikipedia: 40,000 child-checked articles & images
It's probably too late now, but I'd quibble this sounds like the children did the checking ;-)
Is that 40,000 articles with images, or 40,000 articles plus images in total?
I notice already one teachers discussion forum has a teacher congratulating us on getting the difficult part of the Inca history correct "unlike the main Wikipedia". Of course, that was just version selection to a good editor.
Ha! Might be worth noting that on the discussion page, someone'll be pleased...
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