[Foundation-l] Fwd: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and wiki

Tue Nov 18 16:19:54 UTC 2008

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:16 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> forwarded message. As always, I'm grateful if this is *not* quoted as
>> "Michael Bimmler wrote", irrespective of whether I agree with the
>> email.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: RJ <nittanylions at psu.edu>
>> Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:41 PM
>> Subject: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and wiki
>> To: foundation-l-owner at lists.wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki
>>
>> This is an awesome program, how can we take wiki involvement to the
>> next level?  Any chance to market on the main wiki webpage?  Thanks.
>
> Wikis: they are in our webpages, on our laptops, taking over our
> conferences... and now in our children's homes! WHERE WILL IT END.
>
> Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
>
> Being more serious, for the original poster: you might be interested
> in the WikiBrowse activity, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WikiBrowse,
> which is the version of Wikipedia on the XOs. AFAIK this is being
> shipped on the current machines, so WMF content is being pretty
> effectively used in the OLPC project already (when he's not frantic
> with other things, maybe SJ could send an update on this to the the
> list?).
>
> If you'd like to help out with OLPC, there's a list of ways community
> members can participate here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Participate
>
> -- phoebe

Oh, and there's a project to actually get different collections of
Wikipedia together for OLPC and potentially other projects at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice.

Similar to but not quite the same as related projects, like the
Schools Wikipedia collection..
-- phoebe