From: "Andy Rabagliati" andyr@wizzy.com
Folks, [...] Due to the time taken to download new snapshots, I only do these between semesters - it can take a week or so to download, using UUCP at cheap rates in evenings and weekends.
- Graphics (you knew that was coming !)
Hi Andy, I work with three different school districts in SW New Hampshire, USA. We have the students using Wikipedia as a resource with different access. One school has an AOL dial up account at 33.6k another a frame relay connection and one more on local cable broad band. We've tried it all!
One outlying school cannot afford a live fulltime connection and we download whole websites and mirror them on the server when requested by teachers, so the process is during nighttime. For this school I've brought a lot of information on CD-R's, shared it out of the drive and have the kids access the info. These are all just ways to make do, untill they get faster access in the area, (which is very rural).
I was thinking that if you could use a backup sent to you on CD-R or a DVD of whatever images or tarballs will be needed it would save you incredible amounts of download time, wouldn't it?
- A daily SQL update for the main page.
Even a weekend update would be quite recent and something to look forward to for the students and teachers.
Thanks again for an invaluable resource that almost replaces the web at one fell swoop in places that cannot afford the web. Cheers, Andy!
I wholeheartedly agree, Andy. I feel that Wikipedia is an excellent resource for schools!
With regards, Jay B.