[Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Sun May 31 19:23:53 UTC 2009
2009/5/31 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> 2009/5/31 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> For a practical example, the Schools Wikipedia is proving enormously
>> popular with teachers in countries of all economic levels. Requires
>> something that can read a DVD, or have said DVD dumped onto its hard
>> disk somehow, and in print it'd be roughly 15 Britannica volumes.
> However it is english only as far as I'm aware.
Yes indeed. It is an improvement on nothing, however, and shows how
similar things could be done for other languages (e.g. Schools
Wikipedia was done by a charity for use in its own schools).
- d.
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