[WikiEN-l] Putting Wikipedia on a CD or DVD

Wed Mar 23 19:07:09 UTC 2005

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.