Wikipedia For Schools DVD Released

David Gerard writes "SOS Children's Villages has released the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools — 5500 checked and reviewed articles matching the English National Curriculum, produced by SOS for use in their own schools in developing countries. The 2007 edition was a huge success, with distributions to schools in four countries, use by the Hole in the Wall education project, thousands of downloads and disks and around 6000 unique IPs a day visiting the online version — the most successful end-user distribution version of Wikipedia to date."

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Re:14,000 not 6,000

[Frosty Piss]

Just after I submitted this, Andrew Cates from SOS Children's Villages corrected the hits on the site - it was actually 14,000 a day, not 6,000!

{{fact}}

Also, no original research, please.

Re:I find it interesting,

[couchslug]

"Well, when your choices are no education and free but perhaps not perfectly accurate education, I think most of the world's poor would choose the latter for their children."

Next step, Encyclopedia Dramatica for schools. :)

Re:14,000 not 6,000

[Cassius Corodes]

Your post is non-NPV, and uses blogs as sources. Please edit the PV, and find Verifiable sources or it will be reverted.

Re:I find it interesting,

[Anonymous Coward]

Kid: "Today I learned that Hitler did it for the lulz"