On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Guaka wrote:
On another note, we ( http://www.slug.org.za/ ) installed Linux Thin Client labs in ten schools today, which included a March snapshot of en wikipedia (including pictures).
This was mostly possible because the 15 Gig required (pictures) could be carried to the school on a hard drive (the server pre-installation).
That's nice. Is that 15 GB the entire Commons? Or just the pix from the English Wikipdia?
It is pictures from en wikipedia.
http://download.wikimedia.org/images/ (or a version thereof at the time) used to have the picture dump.
I have been too busy recently to chase up a more recent dump. And I need to figure out the 'commons' thing for my downloads.
However, the 1.5 mediawiki release, and attendant database changes, mean that I am waiting for the dust to settle before spending time getting a new snapshot.
The old one (March) is so great anyway (for folks that do not even have internet) that I am hanging with that for a while.
I tart it up (for schools that dial up overnight) with todays wikipedia front page, edited to link to their snapshot.
An example can be seen at http://esangweni.shacknet.nu/ - a school that has a wireless (24hour) connection.
Cheers, Andy!