Wikipedia for Schools

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Amazing selection from Wikipedia that fits on a DVD.

SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools

"This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia.. . It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). Articles were chosen from a list ranked by importance and quality generated by project members. This list of articles was then manually sorted for relevance to children, and adult topics were removed."
Online web page here (http://schools-wikipedia.org/)
download torrent here (http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/schools-wikipedia-full-20081023.tar.gz.torrent)

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I saw this on one of the news feeds. When I checked, it wasn't quite available. I'm going to download copies for my classroom. We have a very nice computer system at school. Unfortunately, a lot of content is blocked. Each computer is very closely managed by an iron fisted central system. It looks nice on paper but have limited utility.

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