It would be an interesting idea to have an offline wikipedia for schools,
wherein the content/pictures are updated overnight, so that it's refreshed
by the morning. That'd be nice to do for every wikipedia...any program
specifically that could perhaps be set to download specified wikis, with
settings per wiki?
Nice.
James
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From: wikipedia-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andy Rabagliati
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 3:10 PM
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Offline wikipedia (was: WCCE and Wikipedia etc.)
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Guaka wrote:
On another
note, we (
http://www.slug.org.za/ ) installed Linux Thin
Client labs in ten schools today, which included a March snapshot of
en wikipedia (including pictures).
This was mostly possible because the 15 Gig required (pictures) could be
carried to the school on a hard drive (the server pre-installation).
That's nice. Is that 15 GB the entire Commons? Or just the pix from the
English Wikipdia?
It is pictures from en wikipedia.
http://download.wikimedia.org/images/ (or a version thereof at the time)
used to have the picture dump.
I have been too busy recently to chase up a more recent dump. And I need
to figure out the 'commons' thing for my downloads.
However, the 1.5 mediawiki release, and attendant database changes, mean
that I am waiting for the dust to settle before spending time getting a
new snapshot.
The old one (March) is so great anyway (for folks that do not even have
internet) that I am hanging with that for a while.
I tart it up (for schools that dial up overnight) with todays wikipedia
front page, edited to link to their snapshot.
An example can be seen at
http://esangweni.shacknet.nu/ - a school that
has a wireless (24hour) connection.
Cheers, Andy!
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