Wiki contents for '...pedia' uses

Hi all,

This email is mainly divided into 3 questions for you all
because I
still have not been able to make 'sound' decision about
this.

Many schools in LAm countries (Latin America) do not have
internet
access 24x7 and/or with great bandwidth. So, I know there
are working
efforts for a Wikipedia CD version, which could be great for
the
aforementioned schools, indeed. Nevertheless, would it be
better/possible to sync those 'encyclopedia' contents
instead of
downloading everytime?

I ask because a few weeks ago, MoinMoin wiki has released
another
feature: 'Sync pages', which means a user can actually
synchronize
contents between a local wiki and a remote wiki server,
therefore, this
will reduce the downloading time and size, plus... it would
also allow
schools/users to upload/contribute with contents to the
Edu-Commnunity.

Why Moin can do such thing? AFAIK, because Moin uses
plain-text content
that is rendered as nice reading-friendly html on the
browser side. So
syncing plain-text is neither painful nor so risky.

= 1st question =
Do you think this culd be useful to manage educontent?

= 2nd question =
Is it possible and simple to sync educontent from/to L.A.M.P
like sites
(local <-> remote)?

= 3rd question =
Since some Moin versions ago, Moin includes a WYSIWYG editor
that makes
generating content very simple fro teachers/students.

Has any of you had experiences using wikis on
Education/Learning tasks?
Would you?

Regards,

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On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 16:35 -0400, Jason Ryer wrote:
> Hola Mauricio,
> 
> I think that your idea about managing content
specifically for those
> that do not have internet and/or have older computers
is an excellent
> idea. I have downloaded the wiki but unfortunately was
unable to get
> it working due to errors when importing the database. 

Which wiki? which DB?

for 'any' wiki, I'd totally suggest MoinMoin Desktop
Edition which runs
on M$, OSX and Linux, by simply unpacking and executing it.


> However, being that we are working with schools
throughout Bolivia and
> many without internet, it would be great to see a
distribution that
> works for our needs. I am currently coordinating a
shipment of P3s
> from the US here to Bolivia to distribute to various
communities
> throughout Bolivia. It would be great to give these
people a working
> sytem that includes such internet tools as wikipedia
and edubuntu
> without the need for an internet connection. (As it
currently stands,
> edubuntu is NOT equipped to install to Spanish without
depending on an
> Internet connection.) 

Believe me Jason, I am very interested on delivering a
spanish-default
flavor of Edubuntu, even with spanish docs, spanish
edu-content, and a
wikipedia CD. However, commited hands to achieve this from
the
edu-oriented community are still very few and the lack of
funding is
also an issue, esp. to deliver this once is ready to LAm
countries.

Personally, at this moment, I don't even have machines to
play with, not
even a server to test 'normal' edubuntu flights or stuff,
just this thin
laptop which has recently survived a serious HD problem.

Maybe, it is time for me/us to write down some specs and see
if we get
what we need.

However, I do not lose hope 

Regards,

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