One encyclopedia per child

Background

The purpose of this page is to encourage the quick generation of good content for initially populating the One Laptop Per Child. Many scholars are self taught primarily from their early exposure to an encyclopedia at an early age. The encyclopedia gave them a good start in life. How much more useful will a hyperlinked encyclopedia be to the home of a child in a developing country.

Current scripts

We have a set of perl scripts that takes Wikipedia snapshots and downloads; drawing from a parent page with a list of articles (at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sj/wp).

There are some existing perl scripts that take in that wiki page and output multilingual static html, attending to

• one list of keywords (in one language)
• a list of languages to check -- following any interwiki links from the wiki pages defined in the first list
• removing a set of unwanted templates, nav templates, and header/footer information by elements of the html
• leaving in or removing external links (toggled by an option in code)
• making all links to images/pages local; removing any that are dead -- e.g., wikilinks that point to articles not included in the snapshot [or perhaps these should link out to the web?]
• adding a new overall skin/style (with olpc icon,