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Title

Wikipedia-in-a-Box

Theme

outreach

Academic Peer Review option

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Type of submission

presentation

Author

various, including Stéphane Coillet-Matillon, Jorge Vargas, Adam Holt, and Tim Moody

E-mail address

stephane / kiwix.org

Username

m:user:Stephane (WMCH)

Affiliation

various, including Unleash Kids and Wikimedia CH

Abstract

Internet-in-a-Box seeks to provide a device with software which creates a Wi-Fi hotspot that offers closed platform access to Wikimedia content. In practice, this means that users who are physically in the hotspot can connect to the device by Wi-Fi and access or download Wikimedia content. The Internet-in-a-Box is not intended to further connect users to Internet access or content beyond what is presented in the Internet-in-a-Box itself. This presentation will review the history of offline Wikipedia services and present this current attempt to succeed in delivering Wikimedia content to users who cannot access it online.

Length of presentation

30 minutes

Special schedule requests

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