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removed at example May 30, 2009, 7:38 PM Views: 1073 Permalink One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) Given currently existing technology, and technology that we can reasonably assume to be available within the next decade, how can the WMF best achieve its goal of giving every person free access to our current best summary of all human knowledge? Consider that Google Translate has the best machine translation corpus, consisting not only of the Internet but also all United Nations translations and many other datasets. It is the closest existing thing to a Babelfish, now supporting 41 languages and winning all translation competitions for several years. It will continue to be the best for the foreseeable future. Consider that 75% of the world is not online and that there may be a way to beat market forces in the race to getting free Internet access to every person by literally giving Wikipedia to every person instead, offline. Our current micro-content distribution model would be sufficient if everyone had access to the Internet. They don't so it's not. Consider that the money the WMF could potentially raise through competitive market forces (the OLPC way) may lag behind the money they can raise through their idealistic goals, uncompromised values and principles, and smart ideas. This money can be used to give copies of the entirety of Wikipedia away. Consider that access to Wikipedia does not require readability proper (beautiful prose), just the ability to comprehend the information, and just barely. The human brain is the most powerful translator in existence, we just have to meet said brain halfway. We may see a meta language in our lifetimes but not within the next decade. The current best meta language is a set of fuzzy translations that are a function of the size of the source and target language corpuses. I propose a cheap cellphone-sized device (OWPP) whose only purpose is to read Wikipedia. The WMF teams up with Google to obtain CC-BY-SA translations from all supported source languages to all supported target languages. The device holds just one copy of all of the Wikipedia's in a single target language. The technical specifications of such a device allow for it to be extremely cheap. Let's let those of us fortunate enough to have access to the Internet write an encyclopedia and give it to those who are not, sooner rather than later. Brian _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Subject User Time One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) removed at example May 30, 2009, 7:38 PM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) faigos at gmail May 30, 2009, 11:50 PM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) removed at example May 31, 2009, 1:10 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) rarohde at gmail May 31, 2009, 1:30 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) gerard.meijssen at gmail May 31, 2009, 1:44 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) removed at example May 31, 2009, 1:51 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) geniice at gmail May 31, 2009, 3:50 AM     Re: 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of and the ability to read Wikipedia) magnusmanske at googlemail Jun 1, 2009, 5:21 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) removed at example Jun 1, 2009, 10:53 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) removed at example Jun 1, 2009, 11:08 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) thomas.dalton at gmail Jun 1, 2009, 11:20 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) node.ue at gmail Jun 1, 2009, 2:07 PM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) yann at forget-me Jun 1, 2009, 2:22 PM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) meta.sj at gmail Jun 1, 2009, 4:12 PM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) wikimail at inbox Jun 2, 2009, 11:58 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) wikimail at inbox Jun 2, 2009, 11:58 AM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) george.herbert at gmail Jun 2, 2009, 1:49 PM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) dgerard at gmail Jun 2, 2009, 1:59 PM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) wikimail at inbox Jun 2, 2009, 2:13 PM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) george.herbert at gmail Jun 2, 2009, 2:57 PM     Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia) dgerard at gmail Jun 2, 2009, 3:17 PM

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