Show HN: Wikipedia for Schools 2013 (test release)(soschildrensvillages.org.uk)

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Show HN: Wikipedia for Schools 2013 (test release)

http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/about-our-charity/news/wikipedia-for-schools-2013-nearly-ready-for-release

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OP here. Full disclaimer - I work at SOS Children and this is one of our projects. It's a selection of Wikipedia articles which are child friendly and aligned with the UK national curriculum. There have been several releases since the first in 2005, and this is our biggest yet.

There's an online version and we also distribute offline copies (previously DVDs, this time it's too big, so USB sticks) for use in developing countries around the world. Impact is hard to estimate, but we think there are at least 5M active users around the world.

Direct link to test site: http://schools-wikipedia-test.soschildren.org/

Pulling articles from Wikipedia and tidying them up for our use is a moving target, so we're still ironing out some formatting issues. If you have some time to spare visit an article on your favourite topic and let us know if you spot anything weird going on.

Happy to discuss any of the tech aspects if anyone's interested.