The aim of these initiatives is to bring new technologies to the poorest (the new computer illiteracy).
This disponoble for download the CD is free and distributed by BitTorrent (you must have this software installed to download). These are the links:
English version. November 2005. With images. Weighs: 4.2 Gb http://download.wikimedia.org/images/wikipedia/es/
English version. With images. Weighs: 75.5 Gb http://download.wikimedia.org/images/wikipedia/en/
English version. No images. April 2007. Pesa: 584Mb http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/April_2007/es/
CDPedia, Argentina's version of Wikipedia CD
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According January 2010, a group of programmers Python community Argentina CDPedia developed a CD version of Wikipedia designed especially for schools and students who do not have Internet access.Facundo Batista, one of the programmers that forms part of the project, told RedSERS that "there are two versions, a CD which come in more than 80 000 items with many images and another on DVD, where all items with all the images, although not all 100% of your resolution. " According
Facundo, "the project and takes about three years of development and for the next version (0.7) hope to achieve a greater resemblance to Wikipedia, making" the 'main' CDPedia have a list of categories and other functions. "
"To pass it on to CD grab a dump of all HTML files published by Wikipedia, we assembled structures with" crazy "super efficient, we got off the images and we put a web server in Python that is giving you all the information" revealed. Therefore, the CDPedia works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS, because only what is needed is a browser.
0.6 version can be downloaded from this website as a torrent file, so it is required to download a P2P program such as uTorrent. You can also access your source.
"The goal was to bring the wikipedia info on schools and families without Internet, than in all of Argentina are unfortunately many," says the electrical engineer of 34 who lives in Vicente López. The dozen users CDPedia who participated did not receive any support, but autosolventa community through the sale of shirts and other related products.
To download the CD CDPedia click on some of these links (it should be because they are BitTorrent files. Torrent):
No Image: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/facundo/CDPedia- CD-0.6.torrent [701 MB]
With image included: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/facundo/CDPedia-DVD-0.6.torrent [4.3 GB]
The authors emphasize that "all the information Wikipedia does not enter from a CD or DVD, necessarily had to select what items and what to leave out, and those who entered in which to place images in original size in which to place reduced images, or which do not directly put picture. "That is why you will not find some items, or in many pages you will find a small sign of" no photo "instead of the original image. We hope that the criteria we use to select what information to include has resulted in a useful product. All information contained herein was obtained from Wikipedia, but for technical reasons of this project, is current as of June 2008. We suggest you access the information directly on the Wikipedia Web if you need an update of one of the issues. "
Finally, we recommend that you copy these discs and gifts to your friends, family and acquaintances. The information should be free, thus improving the quality of our education ...
