[Foundation-l] Report to the Board (March)

Tue Apr 15 14:28:07 UTC 2008

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:09 PM, mike.lifeguard <mike.lifeguard at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> The last time I mentioned this, I was pointed toward localization of
> MediaWiki as one way we're doing this... I don't see how localizing a
> website reaches beyond the internet. To be fair, there have been efforts
> in
> the past to actually go beyond the internet:
> *I think we had some partnership with OLPC [2] at some point; that might
> have been Wikibooks-specific [3] (and it might be simply a free
> association
> of volunteers with nothing higher-level happening)
> *There are other groups who print (on paper/CDs/DVDs) Wikipedia content,
> but
> are not involved with us, so far as I know
>

The Wikipedia CD and DVD published in Germany as well as the WikiPress books
were produced in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland. There are also
initiatives under way to expand on the offline distribution of Wikipedia
content. I would expect some more information as soon as commercial
negotiations are finished.

Sebastian