On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2008/9/8 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk:
I think that its not just one for people in poor countries. I think stable versions of the encyclopedia could be used in many schools within the UK. Versions could even be tailor made for various curriculum.
Absolutely. A lot of schools have very restricted internet access and block pretty much every site under the sun, sometimes including Wikipedia (or so I'm led to believe, the schools in my local area don't have it blocked, but I'm told others do), so being able to hand out an offline version to such schools would be very handy.
However, handing out an offline version will give some schools who currently do not block Wikipedia a reason to do so :-( It's something to think about.