On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Tim Starling wrote: Folks, Just to keep you up to date, we have had great success with wikipedia installations in schools in South Africa. I use these images for the install. I have downloaded more recent database snapshots to match with it, but for the most part if they cannot make a difference by reposting changes (which they cannot, as it is quite isolated in bandwidth-space) I just put a June snapshot (same date as the pictures) on. I am excited by the potential of carrying snapshots and image diffs, probably selected by tar using the file dates. We (Wizzy Digital Courier) can carry these by UUCP - using dialup connections or physical carrying on a USB memory stick. I split them up into 6 CDs, but found that one whole CD was the thumb/ directory , so you can skip that :-) I would also love to preserve the 'newsy' feel of the front page. I had a suggestion fron Sj that I grab the front page conventionally and patch the URLs to point to a local wikipedia installation. If you could put up a tarball of the whole archive again I can rsync it this way. Or - put up an rsync server ? That would also handle deletion of orphaned images. Cheers, Andy! http://wizzy.org.za/ (not been updated in a while) http://www.slug.org.za/ (Shuttleworth Foundation project putting Open Source into schools)