[Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids (Victor Grigas)
Fabrice Florin
fflorin at wikimedia.org
Sun May 5 19:38:34 UTC 2013
Very cool idea!
I just donated and tweeted about it.
It's a really clever way to spread free knowledge to kids who need it the most.
Well done, you guys!
Fabrice
On May 5, 2013, at 11:55 AM, wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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> This is totally awesome!
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> On 5 May 2013 09:46, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider at wikimedia.ch> wrote:
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>> Great initiative. Actually the first time I donated real money to a
>> Wikimedia project... sort of.
>>
>> /Manuel
>>
>> Am 05.05.2013 06:27, schrieb Victor Grigas:
>>> My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds
>> to
>>> buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in
>>> places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
>>>
>>> The campaign is here:
>>> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
>>>
>>> The video is here:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
>>>
>>> Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign,
>>> please share the link with others!
>>>
>>> While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
>>> entirely as a volunteer.
>>
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> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300
> From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga <tom at wikimedia.org>
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> That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor.
>
> I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried
> to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try <
> http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/> sometime soon (alguém da WMBR
> com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo).
>
> What about using their software <http://thewikireader.com/> on Linux? If
> you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just
> for Windows and Mac stuff.
>
> I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South
> America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon <
> http://www.amazon.com.br/> site.
>
> Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware
> source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we
> could produce locally.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to
>> buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in
>> places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
>>
>> The campaign is here:
>> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
>>
>> The video is here:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
>>
>> Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign,
>> please share the link with others!
>>
>> While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
>> entirely as a volunteer.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Victor Grigas*
>> Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0>
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> vgrigas at wikimedia.org
>> +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773
>> 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor
>> San Francisco, CA 94105
>> https://donate.wikimedia.org/
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wikimedia-l mailing list
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>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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>
>
>
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> "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
> than a life spent doing nothing."
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:01:25 +0000
> From: Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr at hotmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
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> All the best, Victor!
> Abbas.
>
>> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300
>> From: tom at wikimedia.org
>> To: wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> CC: wikimediabr-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
>>
>> That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor.
>>
>> I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried
>> to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try <
>> http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/> sometime soon (alguém da WMBR
>> com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo).
>>
>> What about using their software <http://thewikireader.com/> on Linux? If
>> you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just
>> for Windows and Mac stuff.
>>
>> I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South
>> America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon <
>> http://www.amazon.com.br/> site.
>>
>> Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware
>> source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we
>> could produce locally.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to
>>> buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in
>>> places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
>>>
>>> The campaign is here:
>>> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
>>>
>>> The video is here:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
>>>
>>> Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign,
>>> please share the link with others!
>>>
>>> While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
>>> entirely as a volunteer.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> *Victor Grigas*
>>> Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0>
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> vgrigas at wikimedia.org
>>> +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773
>>> 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor
>>> San Francisco, CA 94105
>>> https://donate.wikimedia.org/
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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>>
>>
>>
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>> "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
>> than a life spent doing nothing."
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> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 15:26:07 -0300
> From: Oona Castro <ocastro at wikimedia.org>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
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> Hi Victor,
> hope you're well.
>
> I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money.
> I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to the
> global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the fact
> that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other languages is
> not that intuitive, though it's possible.
>
> Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and make a
> contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, Egypt,
> elsewhere?
>
> The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with one
> of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I think
> you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it.
>
> let me know what you think
>
> Best regards
>
> Oona
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All the best, Victor!
>> Abbas.
>>
>>> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300
>>> From: tom at wikimedia.org
>>> To: wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>>> CC: wikimediabr-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
>>>
>>> That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor.
>>>
>>> I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone
>> tried
>>> to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try <
>>> http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/> sometime soon (alguém da
>> WMBR
>>> com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo).
>>>
>>> What about using their software <http://thewikireader.com/> on Linux? If
>>> you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just
>>> for Windows and Mac stuff.
>>>
>>> I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South
>>> America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon <
>>> http://www.amazon.com.br/> site.
>>>
>>> Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the
>> hardware
>>> source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we
>>> could produce locally.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise
>> funds to
>>>> buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids
>> in
>>>> places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
>>>>
>>>> The campaign is here:
>>>>
>> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
>>>>
>>>> The video is here:
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
>>>>
>>>> Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the
>> campaign,
>>>> please share the link with others!
>>>>
>>>> While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
>>>> entirely as a volunteer.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> *Victor Grigas*
>>>> Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0>
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> vgrigas at wikimedia.org
>>>> +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773
>>>> 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor
>>>> San Francisco, CA 94105
>>>> https://donate.wikimedia.org/
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list
>>>> Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
>>> "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
>>> than a life spent doing nothing."
>>> _______________________________________________
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> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 20:27:20 +0200
> From: rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
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> hehehe, victor, you are cool. because its a private initiative you use
> your wikimedia mail account to advertise for it, in the video you make
> sure that everybody konws you work for wikimedia foundation? the price
> you give is interesting as well. on your money collection page you
> write the devices cost 25 usd. on amazon they sell it for 9 usd. the
> original price 5 years ago was 99 usd, where one could have a 29 usd
> subscription to get the contents updated.
>
> i do not have a problem with all of this. i like your work you do, i
> like the enthusiasm, i like that you guys do this voluntary. and i
> especially like that you are able to think big.
>
> but what really stroke me: you say you would not buy it. if you would
> not buy it, what makes you so sure that it will be of use for somebody
> else? for children who like to see pictures? probably not. for adults
> who will have smartphones in 2 years time? probably not as well.
>
> you might be interested in reading the report of the united nations
> environment program coming out of the "E-Waste Africa Project":
> http://www.basel.int/Implementation/TechnicalAssistance/EWaste/EwasteAfricaProject/tabid/2546/Default.aspx?overlayId=ArtId-468
>
> "Africa has been undergoing rapid ICT transformation in recent years,
> attempting to bridge this divide by importing second-hand or used
> computers, mobile phones, and TVsets from developed countries. The
> countries of the region, however, lack the infrastructure and
> resources for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of electrical
> and electronic waste (e-waste) arising when such imports reach their
> end-of-life."
>
> rupert.
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to
>> buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in
>> places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
>>
>> The campaign is here:
>> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
>>
>> The video is here:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
>>
>> Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign,
>> please share the link with others!
>>
>> While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
>> entirely as a volunteer.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Victor Grigas*
>> Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0>
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> vgrigas at wikimedia.org
>> +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773
>> 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor
>> San Francisco, CA 94105
>> https://donate.wikimedia.org/
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wikimedia-l mailing list
>> Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 20:31:38 +0200
> From: Mathias Damour <mathias.damour at laposte.net>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] And content - Re: WikiReaders4Kids
> Message-ID: <5186A58A.7080407 at laposte.net>
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> Hi,
>
> How should be token into consideration the low readability of Wikipedia,
> which was pointed out by some recent studies, as far as this device is
> devoted to children ?
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/29/wikimedia-research-newsletter-november-2012/#Readability_of_the_English_Wikipedia.2C_Simple_Wikipedia.2C_and_Britannica_compared
>
> There is Simple English Wikipedia as far as English is concerned. For
> other language, there is the *Wikikids* proposal that has had some
> activity recently and 2 or 3 existing and well running wiki for children.
> That's about setting a frame pulled after the existing wikis for kids,
> to make good work, associate potential editors (including children), and
> then (notably ;-)) to supply a WikiReaders4Kids with suitable and
> quality content a few years later !
> Present step is to assemble a comparison between those existing wikis to
> help to work out what should be the basic principles for such a project.
> Have a look at it !
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids
>
> Le 05/05/2013 06:27, Victor Grigas a écrit :
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to
>> buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in
>> places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
>>
>> The campaign is here:
>> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
>>
>> The video is here:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
>>
>> Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign,
>> please share the link with others!
>>
>> While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
>> entirely as a volunteer.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> --
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> 00 33 (0)4 57 09 10 56
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>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 11:55:11 -0700
> From: Victor Grigas <vgrigas at wikimedia.org>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
> Message-ID:
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>
> Hi everyone -
>
> Ok a few things that people have brought up here and elsewhere:
>
> 1 - the manufacturer has said to us that the devices can come pre-installed
> with whatever languages are already available :
> http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ and that he would help with
> other language versions (from our dumps) if we communicated a need for it.
> I mentioned this specifically: http://schools-wikipedia.org/
>
> 2 - AMAZON! - yes these are the retailers sitting on overstock, we plan to
> buy whatever is cheapest first (highest impact) -- and alot of people have
> supersaver shipping (user:Ashstar01 too)
>
> 3 - recycling: scroll to the bottom: http://thewikireader.com/
> also the key in distribution will be to find the schools that could REALLY
> USE the devices, (so that they do not go to waste) so if anyone on this
> list knows schools, please share:
> wikireaders4kids at gmail.com
> http://wikireaders4kids.tumblr.com/suggest
>
> 4 - I hope i'm not creating any conflicts of interest by being a WMF
> staffer, please know - if i do cross some line let me know and i'll correct
> myself ASAP. I really mean this please contact me if you feel that there is
> any COI at all.
>
> 5 - also here is the .en village pump post from a few weeks ago:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Free_Distribution_of_WikiReaders_to_offline_schools_around_the_world.2C_funded_by_Kickstarter.com_or_Indiegogo.com
>
> 6 - we are also looking into contacting battery manufacturers and solar
> charger manufacturers to see if they would like the good press by donating
> a few of their chargers & batteries to the schools that end up getting the
> wikireaders.
>
> Thanks for your interest everyone! As of me writing this, we are already at
> $505 USD and I expect that alot of people are away from their computers for
> the weekend and will see the campaign on Monday when they get to work.
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Oona Castro <ocastro at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Victor,
>> hope you're well.
>>
>> I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money.
>> I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to the
>> global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the fact
>> that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other languages is
>> not that intuitive, though it's possible.
>>
>> Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and make a
>> contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, Egypt,
>> elsewhere?
>>
>> The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with one
>> of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I think
>> you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it.
>>
>> let me know what you think
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Oona
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> All the best, Victor!
>>> Abbas.
>>>
>>>> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300
>>>> From: tom at wikimedia.org
>>>> To: wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> CC: wikimediabr-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
>>>>
>>>> That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor.
>>>>
>>>> I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone
>>> tried
>>>> to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try <
>>>> http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/> sometime soon (alguém da
>>> WMBR
>>>> com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo).
>>>>
>>>> What about using their software <http://thewikireader.com/> on Linux?
>> If
>>>> you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are
>> just
>>>> for Windows and Mac stuff.
>>>>
>>>> I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South
>>>> America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon <
>>>> http://www.amazon.com.br/> site.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the
>>> hardware
>>>> source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we
>>>> could produce locally.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas at wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise
>>> funds to
>>>>> buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids
>>> in
>>>>> places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
>>>>>
>>>>> The campaign is here:
>>>>>
>>> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
>>>>>
>>>>> The video is here:
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
>>>>>
>>>>> Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the
>>> campaign,
>>>>> please share the link with others!
>>>>>
>>>>> While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
>>>>> entirely as a volunteer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> *Victor Grigas*
>>>>> Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0>
>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>> vgrigas at wikimedia.org
>>>>> +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773
>>>>> 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor
>>>>> San Francisco, CA 94105
>>>>> https://donate.wikimedia.org/
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list
>>>>> Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>> Unsubscribe:
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
>>>> "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
>> useful
>>>> than a life spent doing nothing."
>>>> _______________________________________________
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