Tom Haws wrote:
Of course we have to get Wikipedia ready with a
working Wiki
rating/tagging/validation system. That is really our whole job.
I work with a help-Africa charity called Care For Life that is based in
Mozambique, and I think if Wikipedia could provide reliable, selectable
content, that humanitarian organizations like Care For Life could
creatively solve the problem of distribution. I could ask the board of
Care For Life, but it seems it would be a small matter to create a
Wikipedia Appliance that was optimized for price and utility in a given
area. For example, Care For Life could purchase or receive donations of
cheap computers and provide them with Wikipedia 1.0 loaded at their
Literacy Centers.
You can hardly *buy* a hard disk smaller than 20GB these days. Heck, with
40GB disks we could just dump the whole of Wikimedia on each one.
Of course, tagging/metadata on good article versions would be a good thing
to have ;-)
- d.