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Old 07-31-2008, 12:22 AM
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Volunteers at the English Wikipedia and SOS Children have today launched The Wikipedia Selection for Schools. The Selection is about the size of a 15 volume encyclopaedia with 24,000 pictures, 14 million words and articles on 4,625 topics. It includes the best of Wikipedia as well as many thousands of pages of extra material specifically selected to be of interest to children who follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the world.
  • The selection is organised around National Curriculum subjects
  • The articles have been cleaned up and checked for suitability for children
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  • Available for free as BitTorrent download (2.5GB compressed with full size images) or HTTP download (792MB compressed with only thumbnail images) or on DVD from SOS Children’s offices. See below for download instructions.
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This is a really worthwhile initiative and with Google's Knol coming up, Wikipedia better stay on its toes to stay relevant.
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Sounds good to me. What a better way to put Wikipedia into full use. It just gets better and better
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Good thing is that they have also started to go offline to the kids PC.

You can actually download the SOS children or use a CD in the school or your home. Probably a very good move i promoting itself as well as getting in good use of the resourses it owns.
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Yeah, it will help especially for kids at third world countries where they don't have fast internet connection. In case, I might wondering, I think the UN should play a role to sponsor this project as well. What do you think?
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I had to disagree. The UN is not known for its creativity and I think this worthy project will be bogged down by UN red tape and bureaucracy. A free spirit creature like wikipedia needs more space
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