Folks,
In conjunction with the Wizzy Digital Courier internet
access project
http://wizzy.org.za/ I am considering
installing wikipedia.
Wizzy Digital Courier is primarily to enable Internet access
for countries / communities that cannot afford daytime
internet access, due to Telcom monopolies and per-minute
local telephone charges.
In two pilot schools, I have installed wikipedia on their
intranet, with great success. After initial skeptism from
teachers, it has become a very useful resource.
I install the wikimedia tarball, and a weekly snapshot.
Due to the time taken to download new snapshots, I only
do these between semesters - it can take a week or so to
download, using UUCP at cheap rates in evenings and weekends.
After feedback from teachers, I have two requests :-
1. Graphics (you knew that was coming !)
To determine feasibility of this, can you give me
an idea of the size of a potential graphics archive ?
An incremental snapshot would almost be mandatory for
this, I think.
2. A daily SQL update for the main page.
This will give it a newsy feel, instead of talking
about Mandarin Chinese for two months :-) I know
that some of the articles it refers to will not be
available, but ... tough.
Thanks again for an invaluable resource that almost replaces
the web at one fell swoop in places that cannot afford the web.
Cheers, Andy!