Why stop at read-only content? Why not take advantage of people trapped in
a can for their flight time? You could solicit contributions from people,
most of whom probably have never contributed to Wikipedia before. You could
even gamify it based on competition between those on the same flight, one
flight against another, etc.
The technical difficulty here would be to support a system allowing
revisions from multiple sources with local clones of Wikipedia,
asynchronously, into the "source" Wikipedia. But it would be worth it.
Daren
On Jul 30, 2017 19:01, "James Heilman" <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Amazing idea. I guess one could email them and offer this. Would not add
weight on their end as it is simple digital. The entertainment system would
be completely separate from the flight systems so would not have
significant certification issues.
James
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
I know that KLM included some cuts from Wikipedia
articles in their
onflight system to explain sights from at least San Francisco. Not sure
whether they made it scale, probably not.
Lodewijk
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Pierre-Selim <pierre-selim(a)huard.info>
wrote:
Certification process for the hardware of kiwix
might be a tremendous
pain
in the ass.
And second point the airline will need a business case to cary more
weight
(count about 3.5% of the weight as extra fuel
burn per hour).
That said I'd love to use Wikipedia on an IFE.
Le 31 juil. 2017 00:02, "Daniel Mietchen" <daniel.mietchen@googlemail.
com>
a écrit :
Hi,
during long flights, I have often been wondering why there is no
Wikimedia option in in-flight entertainment systems. As I am normally
offline during flights and I normally don't think about in-flight
stuff while on the ground, I never actually asked around, so after a
long flight yesterday, here we go:
Do any of you know of attempts to explore the option(s) to get
Wikimedia content onto in-flight entertainment and similar systems?
Many of them already have educational content, but I am not aware of
anything openly licensed amidst those offerings. Have any of the Kiwix
team looked into this?
Also, many airlines/ ships/ trains and others offer WiFi for a fee -
has the Wikipedia Zero team ever looked into engaging with such
"providers"?
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
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