Offline Projects/Distribution

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Current distribution

See distribution map here.

Please add the detailed information from any of your distributions! For help, see Offline Projects/Distribution/Map editing.

Case studies of distribution

• Kenya: Wikipedia offline for Kenyan Schools - used WMF Grant to install offline Wikipedia into a variety of classrooms around Kenya.
• Arabic Wikipedia: Offline Projects/Case Studies/2012 ARWP Site Notice - advertised offline Wikipedia as a site notice on Arabic Wikipedia, resulting in record downloads across the Arabic speaking world!
• Afripedia - offline distribution of Wikipedia content (+training), by Wikimedia France [1]
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Partners in distribution

Distributors of offline

• eGranary Digital Library delivers educational resources to computer users in developing countries whom lack consistent and/or inexpensive access to Internet. Wikipedia is one such resource. It is estimated that there are ~1M people whom access the eGranary library, and from preliminary usage logs, ~25% of these users access Wikipedia in a given time period. For more information on eGranary and the WiderNet project see:
  • The eGranary Digital Library
  • The WiderNet Project
  • Google Map of eGranary location

Computer distributors

• Camara
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Education institutions

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Potential partners

• Offline Projects/Distribution/Idea board
• Offline Projects/Distribution/General needs and desires