2008/10/24 Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca:
David Gerard wrote:
Instructions: http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/2008-wikipedia-for-schoo...
Torrent link: http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/schools-wikipedia-full-20081023.tar.g...
Size of .tar.gz is 3.1 GB.
Good idea but bad implementation - they're not compliant with the GFDL as far as I can tell. The articles have no author lists or backlinks to the edit histories on Wikipedia. Not sure if backlinks would actually be sufficient for a mirror intended for offline browsing, for that matter.
I've put them on the list over at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#2008.2F9_Wikipedia_Selection_for_schools but I haven't the time or energy to do proper follow up this weekend, anyone else want to take a stab?
Someone mentioned that in a new thread as well. I agree, it doesn't look compliant. I never thought to check since it was being organised by a Wikipedia Admin... That admin reads this mailing list, so hopefully we'll get some comment soon.