[WikiEN-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Partnership with Mandrakesoft

Thu Sep 23 16:16:08 UTC 2004

OK, but, of those who don't have internet access, how
many have a computer? The statistic we want is people
with unconnected x86s surely?
Mark

--- Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> At 05:40 PM 9/22/2004 -0700, Mark Richards wrote:
> 
> >I appreciate the sentiment, but why? There can't be
> >very many people installing the latest Mandrake
> distro
> >who don't have an internet connection?
> >Perhaps some, but really, how many people are going
> to
> >find this more useful than a link on the mandrake
> >desktop?
> >Mark
> 
>
http://www.clickz.com/stats/big_picture/demographics/article.php/3316541
> 
> shows that for the United States, only 67% of
> urbanites have Internet 
> access and 52% of rural inhabitants have it. 
>
http://www.clickz.com/stats/markets/broadband/article.php/3409671
> indicates 
> that only 29 million broadband users in the US,
> which is a little over 10%, 
> so a lot of Americans are relying on non-broadband.
> Having an actual 
> physical right-there copy of Wikipedia could be
> quite handy.
> 
> I bet a nice market could be school libraries in
> not-so-well-off 
> neighborhoods. They could buy a cheap second-hand
> computer, stick a 
> Mandrake Wikipedia on it, and presto - a
> top-of-the-line (by some standards 
> :) encyclopedia that the kids could even make copies
> of and take home if 
> they wanted. I recall someone was asking about this
> very possibility a 
> month or so back, he wanted to install Wikipedia in
> some local schools and 
> was looking for a way to download the image database
> to go with the text.
> 
> > _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at Wikipedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
> 

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail 