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

Thu Mar 24 18:32:58 UTC 2005

--- Nathan Wong <estel at f2s.com> wrote:
> > > we have to admit that a big part of our content does not necessarily 
> > > fit the needs of some of the target people in these countries. And 
> > > what the associations I went in contact with insisted that they did 
> > > not want to just be handled a cd from west to use.
> > 
> > I for one am not prepared to account for the consequences of 
> > distributing autofella..., etc. to school children.
> 
> Many millions of school children can probably access all of Wikipedia's 
> articles on pretty much anything online anyway, and some schools / 
> colleges have a EB / Encarta subscription that would contain similar 
> information.

Hang on...isn't this discussion in the context of shipping CDs out to parts of
the world without easy Internet access? In which case, the aforementioned
schoolchildren would not be able to access these things online.

Matt

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