On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote: <snip> > The technical specifications of such a device allow for it to be extremely > cheap. <snip>
I think you are underestimating the size of Wikipedia. Even compressed a snapshot of the English articles with both text and low quality images would run you 20+ GB. At that storage capacity a handheld display device using modern technology would cost $200+, which is probably way too much to ask a third world person to pay. For comparison, OLPC has a total capacity of only 1GB. In another decade perhaps it would work, but I don't think it is currently an economical project to talk about giving large numbers of people static copies of Wikipedia. (There is perhaps something to be said for distributing a much smaller core subset of articles though.) -Robert _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
