Wikipedia Selection is a free version of Wikipedia that consists of hand-checked articles from Wikipedia applicable to the UK National Curriculum but also useful to many others. The project is run by SOS Children UK in conjunction with the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia Selection has been distributed to schools in South Africa by the Shuttleworth Foundation and by the Hole in the Wall project to rural Indian children. It is the same size as a 20 volume encyclopedia and articles were ranked by importance by project members. Wikipedia does suffer from vandalism and SOS Children volunteers checked and tidied vandalized contents.
Wikipedia Selection comes in two forms:
- Online
- DVD
The online version can be viewed at http://schools-wikipedia.org/ . The DVD is 3.5GB and can be downloaded via BitTorrent. You can download the torrent file and SOS Children UK are asking people to seed the encyclopedia to help keep their bandwidth costs down.
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PS:Have you thought about putting video to the blog posts to keep the readers more entertained?I think it works.Best wishes, Joe Schummer
Hi Joe. Thanks for the comments. Will take it into consideration for future blog posts. You can follow me on twitter @sdhansay.