Wikipedia Offline Distribution - India

Wikipedia offlinehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects

Wikipedia is...

● Not-for-profit organization that owns Wikipedia

● Based in San Francisco, USA with 75 staff

● Budget for 2011/12 of US$30 million

● Funded mostly by over 500,000 donors who give an average of ~$25

● 32 affiliated but independent chapter organizations around the world

● World's #5 Internet site in terms of monthly unique visitors according to ComScore

● Over 19.9 million articles in 280+ languages:

● 3.5M in English● 92K in Hindi● 35K in Marathi

● Built and maintained by over 90,000 volunteers

● Founded January 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales

The Wikimedia Foundation is...

Our vision: A world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

CCBYSA3.0 by Nicolas Goldberg

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WikipediaNew York TimesCNNBBC NewsMerriam WebsterMSN EncartaNational GeographicEncyclopaedia BritannicaWall Street JournalPBSNPR

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

Wikipedia is the top online information source

MOBILE OFFLINE

INTERNET

~450M unique ~450M unique visitorsvisitors

30% of internet 30% of internet populationpopulation

Est. 10M unique Est. 10M unique visitorsvisitors

<1% of mobile <1% of mobile populationpopulation

Est. 18M unique Est. 18M unique visitorsvisitors

<1% of offline <1% of offline populationpopulation

Current access of Wikipedia

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

to Internet Source: ITU, 2010

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Internet Users per 100 peopleWorld and India, 2001-2009

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India

Wikipedia is currently limited to <30% of the world

<1% broadband

Wikipedia offline solution...

bringing the wealth of online content to the

offline world

1 contentpackages of sub-collectons of Wikipedia to be displayed offline

2 readersoftware for reading the stored offline packages

3 distributionpartnerships for spreading the informaton

Wikipedia for Schools: 5.5K articles selected for quality and academic relevance

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The experience...

search

bookmarkprint

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Platforms supported:

On Linux, an HTTP server can also be set up to read offline content

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Provides a search engine like Kiwix itself

Accessible by any computer connected to one running the Kiwix

We need your help in distributing knowledge in India3

CC-BY-2.5INBy Lajpatdhingraz

Ways to move forward3

CC-BY-2.5INBy Lajpatdhingraz

● 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!

Jessie Wild, Wikimedia Foundation (jwild@wikimedia.org)

We hope to further empower you in increasing access to content across India