Okay friends,
In 48 hours we are going public on the 2007 Wikipedia Schools Selection. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_CD_Selection for details and http://schools-wikipedia.org to browse.
Do you want to have an external link in the footer back to the current article in the Wikipedia? (example possible footer: "(see www.wikipedia.org for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp">the original</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp&action=history">details of authors</a> and sources")
[ Note: It does have the original source URL in the HTML source, but wrapped in a <div class="printfooter"> tag, and in the CSS it has ".printfooter { display: none; }", so it's completely invisible in the output. ]
The downside is that maybe there is material that mightn't be appropriate for young kids to see on the Wikipedia; but the upside is that a DVD is a static thing, and the wiki is a living thing - so the later versions will be available to them, and if they find any mistakes or omissions in the DVD material they can add or fix these (let's not underestimate the kids). Also a small link in the page footer isn't very noticeable, which is probably ideal.
- We also took out other content unsuitable for children. For example
we judged http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/m/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp.htm as historically important but the section on "Inmates" too graphic for an eight year old girl to read. We also took out references/external links sections since it looks like the community doesn't want to vouch for these. Largely this is done using a simple "exclude section xyz" on the entry data.
If you cull sections, the links to sub-sections that were part of the culled section should probably also be de-linked. For example, the http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/m/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp.htm page has an anchor link in the 3rd paragraph on the word "death toll". However, that link doesn't work. The reason it doesn't work is because the "inmates" section ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp#Inmates ) which the "death toll" subsection comes under has been culled. Therefore "death toll" should probably be de-linked / unlinked.
-- All the best, Nick.