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Wikipedia offline http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects Wikipedia is... The Wikimedia Foundation is... ● World's #5 Internet site in terms ● Not-for-profit organization that of monthly unique visitors owns Wikipedia according to ComScore ● Based in San Francisco, 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 Jimmy Wales 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) 300 Wikipedia New York Times 250 CNN BBC News Merriam Webster 200 MSN Encarta National Geographic Encyclopaedia Britannica 150 Wall Street Journal PBS NPR 100 50 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... search bookmark print Platforms supported: 2 On Linux, an HTTP server can also be set up to read offline content Provides a search engine like Kiwix itself Accessible by any computer 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 ● Operating system(s) (available for Windows, OSX, Linux, and Sugar) ● 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]).

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