On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/9/8 joseph seddon
<life_is_bitter_sweet(a)hotmail.co.uk>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.
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