On Wed, 18 May 2005, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I didn't realize that one of the aims of Wikipedia was to have a database small enough to be dumped entirely on anybody's drive.
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When it comes to third world equipment, I'm sure that we have long since exceeded the capacity of that equipment.
Well, we battle to keep up .. :-)
A single central server is a huge resource, warts and all, in an educational environment. It is a wall of books, any page of which can been seen by everybody at once. It is a substitute for the web.
It has quickly outstripped the CD, marched straight through the DVD, and will be 100Mb by the end of the year, I wager.
I am including pictures in that.
Wikipedia is still entirely useful as text-only, but sometimes we need a picture of Nelson Mandela :-)
Without a massively-parallel peer review system, I see no manageable selection system, unless it includes page views, which in my cursory examination have not been revealed.
An external hard drive is still big enough, and will be for a year.
Cheers, Andy!