On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Kim Tucker wrote: (mailing list copied)
Hi Andy,
How is everything?
Lets start with the big questions :-)
Working currently on an easily installable "wizzy server" that does email in an
occasionally-connected location.
Mostly via dialup these days, but I hope via USB memory stick.
Are you by any chance going to WCCE? (we have
exhibition space and a demo slot).
Looking at the dates, no :-(
We are preparing a box of CDs to distribute and
considered including extracts of Wikipedia.
Do you have a subset which would fit on one or at most
2 CDs which could be distributed
without risk of bad content inside? - and ideally relevant content which would be of use
even to people in Africa?
I carry wikipedia around on an external hard drive, for installation at schools.
Capacity quickly wizzed through a DVD last year ..
I have been deleting my 2004 copies (which would fit your criteria) - maybe I
shouldn't.
However, old dumps are fine (just as good as today's dumps, I didn't read the old
one yet).
I think the 'bad content' (and 2 CD) criteria could be easily satisfied with a
text-only recent dump.
Text-only carries everything, but lacks pizazz (and porn).
But that is what I recommend. Any others should be sent to Kim directly.
Cheers, Andy!