<p>Are there any community mesh projects in SF or the mission specifically? A computer serving Wikipedia pages could be a cool contribution to such a project.</p>
<p><a href="http://madebyparker.com">http://madebyparker.com</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 19, 2011 12:08 PM, "John Magolske" <<a href="mailto:listmail@b79.net">listmail@b79.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> * Dan Cote <<a href="mailto:terminationshok@gmail.com">terminationshok@gmail.com</a>> [110619 10:29]:<br>
>> We should snag one. [...]<br>>> <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/13/server-decommission-donations/">http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/13/server-decommission-donations/</a><br>> <br>> What I think would be really fun & useful is to get one of these<br>
> and purpose it towards building & maintaining an offline-Wikipedia<br>> reader -- super handy for FAST searching without any need for a<br>> net connection. By maintaining a current offline copy of Wikipedia<br>
> (and possibly other sites running on MediaWiki like Wikisource,<br>> Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks ... and of course our very own<br>> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/</a> ) and mirroring that to a publicly<br>
> available machine (Pony?) at 2169, anyone who wanted to stop by with<br>> a thumbdrive could grab a copy for themselves.<br>> <br>> I set up this one on my laptop, text-only it required about 2.4 GB:<br>> <br>
> <a href="http://www.tfiu.de/smallwp/">http://www.tfiu.de/smallwp/</a><br>> <br>> There are more of such tools out there:<br>> <br>> <a href="http://okawix.com/">http://okawix.com/</a><br>> <a href="http://www.kiwix.org/">http://www.kiwix.org/</a> <a href="http://blog.wikiwix.com/en/">http://blog.wikiwix.com/en/</a><br>
> <a href="http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html">http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html</a><br>> <a href="http://packages.python.org/wp-download/">http://packages.python.org/wp-download/</a><br>
> <br>> Oh bummer... just read the donations page to see this:<br>> <br>> "At this time we have closed submissions. We have received well<br>> over 100 requests, and will not have enough servers to cover<br>
> those, let alone more. Thanks for the submissions! ~ RobH @<br>> 2011-06-18 @ 10:00 EST"<br>> <br>> Well, I still think setting up an offline-Wikipedia-reader dispensing<br>> machine at Noisebridge would be a cool benefit to provide the public.<br>
> Anyone else interested in participating in such a venture?<br>> <br>> John<br>> <br>> -- <br>> John Magolske<br>> <a href="http://B79.net/contact">http://B79.net/contact</a><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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