[Wikimediaindia-l] [Offline-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!

[Hisham Mundol]

Hisham Mundol

Wikimedia India Programs
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On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:

> Hisham Mundol, 23/06/2011 11:54:
>> T*here are 19,000 laptops*that will be distributed in this initiative.
>> (These are on Ubuntu Linux - and very reasonably configured.)
> 
> How much disk space do they have? It shouldn't be too difficult to add a Kiwix installation with English language (and indic languages) Wikipedias ZIMs, if there's space enough.

320GB so space isn't a problem.
> 
>> Assam has traditionally had a problem with infrastructure and Internet
>> access is a problem. Someone who is supporting Amtron has asked the
>> Foundation if we can give them an offline version of Wikipedia to
>> pre-load onto these computers. Given that it is for 15-16 age group, it
>> does need to be of appropriate content.
> 
> Uh? What sort of Wikipedia content could ever be unappropriate for 15-16 years old boys and girl? I can't imagine any. :-/
:-)  Would suggest we err on the side of caution.  majorly on the side of caution.

> 
> Nemo

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