call for curating materials in Hindi

[Sameer Verma]

Hello everybody,
This is a call for starting to curate materials for the XO in Hindi.
We have very little by way of collections in Hindi. Take a look at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collections It would be nice to have an
offline copy of Wikipedia in Hindi as well.

Ideas?

cheers,
Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
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Director, Campus Business Solutions
San Francisco State University
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[sankarshan]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Sameer Verma <sv3...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a call for starting to curate materials for the XO in Hindi.
> We have very little by way of collections in Hindi. Take a look at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collections It would be nice to have an
> offline copy of Wikipedia in Hindi as well.

The NCERT books that were being discussed on the other OLPC list might
be a good candidate for a collection. However, I'd request that the
creation of a collection be made more granular by focusing on specific
standards. That exercise could also reveal the content that is not
currently available but would be good to have.

I have not had the chance to look at the Wikipedia efforts for Hindi,
is it possible to run the script that produces the offline dump (and
sanitizes it) and check the quantum of the content ?

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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
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