Wikipedia offline http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects is... The is...

● World's #5 Internet site in terms ● Not-for-profit organization that of monthly unique visitors owns Wikipedia according to ComScore ● Based in , USA ● Over 19.9 million articles in 280+ with 75 staff languages: ● 3.5M in English ● Budget for 2011/12 of US$30 ● 92K in Hindi million ● 35K in Marathi ● Funded mostly by over 500,000 ● Built and maintained by over donors who give an average of 90,000 volunteers ~$25

● Founded January 15, 2001 by ● 32 affiliated but independent chapter organizations around the world Our vision: A world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

CCBYSA3.0 by Nicolas Goldberg ` Wikipedia is the top online information source

400 Measured using unique visitors. Data from comScore MediaMetrix. 350 (Global Unique Visitors, in millions of users)

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Wikipedia New York Times 250 CNN BBC News Merriam Webster 200 MSN Encarta National Geographic Encyclopaedia Britannica 150 Wall Street Journal PBS NPR 100

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0 January July January July January July January April 2007 2008 2009 2010 Current access of Wikipedia

INTERNET

~450M unique MOBILE OFFLINE visitors 30% of internet Est. 10M unique population visitors Est. 18M unique visitors <1% of mobile population <1% of offline population Wikipedia is currently limited to <30% of the world

Internet Users per 100 people World and India, 2001-2009 30%

25% World

20%

15% <1% broadband

10% India 5%

0% 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Estimated that over 1B people in India do not have a subscription

Source: ITU, 2010 to Internet Wikipedia offline solution... bringing the wealth of online content to the offline world 1 content packages of sub-collectons of Wikipedia to be displayed offline

2 reader software for reading the stored offline packages

3 distribution partnerships for spreading the informaton 1 Wikipedia for Schools: 5.5K articles selected for quality and academic relevance 2 The experience...

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Platforms supported: 2 On , an HTTP can also be set up to read offline content

Provides a search engine like itself

Accessible by any connected to one running the Kiwix 3 We need your help in distributing knowledge in India

CC-BY-2.5IN By Lajpatdhingraz 3 Ways to move forward

● Download Kiwix and a collection to test

● Decide on the type of install(s) that would be most helpful for your networks ● (s) (available for Windows, OSX, Linux, and ) ● Content packages (size restraints and languages) ● HTTP server or individual software installations

● Communicate to us your decisions and preferences to get any additional help

● Go share the knowledge!

CC-BY-2.5IN By Lajpatdhingraz We hope to further empower you in increasing access to content across India

Jessie Wild, Wikimedia Foundation ([email protected])