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Wikipedia For Schools DVD Released

Posted by timothy on from the nothing-naughty dept.

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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  1. No entry for failed Conservative economic policy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's a shame the Keynes entry made it in, with its Right Wing mud slant (led in with sexuality, end with Hayek/Friedman hand waving), and left out the recent DISASTER spawned by those foolish Republican/Libertarian/FreeMarket swindlers (see: Iceland bankruptcy).

  2. Wikipedia fact? by Ieatsyou · · Score: -1, Troll

    Didn't wikipedia just take a hit for being wildly inaccurate? I know it says they've been "checked", but checked by who? I guess its just more evidence that Americas public schools are going to just get more stupid.

    1. Re:Wikipedia fact? by owlnation · · Score: 0, Troll

      However, a pair of endevouring Wikipedians dug a little deeper and discovered that the Wikipedia articles in the sample were, on average, 2.6 times longer than Britannica's - meaning Wikipedia has an error rate far less than Britannica's.

      The bold's mine, the spelling's the OP's. Right, because a couple of random anonymous guys with a vested interest in inflating their own egos doing statistical research (which can easily be manipulated by anyone with high school statistics knowledge) bent over backwards to make sure they got an answer they liked. Yep, clap clap clap, that's objective and trustworthy. Sure...

      This world really could do without wikipedia admins, they are the main reason the site is unreliable. They are so pompous, self-important and vain that they will do anything not to be proven wrong, even if it means adjusting the truth.

  3. Re:No entry for failed Conservative economic polic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Marked as a Troll, because I dared to mention the Republican/Libertarian/Conservative roots of the economic failure of Iceland and the possibility of a(nother) Republican Global Depression?

    Such intellectual timidity, for shame! ;)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman#Iceland