[IIAB] IIAB Wikipedia-searching (or similar?) prior to SF Oct 18-23?

[Adam Holt]

Braddock,

That'd be *tremendous* news for many folks across the global OLPC community
if Wikipedia full-text search was largely working before Oct 18, when so
many of us are gathering in SF!

I received gentle complaints from Haiti just this morning about the lack of
Wikipedia search in IIAB, which in a sense is really good news as the use
there in Grand-Goâve, Haiti is confirmed very real week-after-week since we
installed it there almost a month ago.

In any case, huge thanks for the very newsy update -- and keep in touch as
that time approaches :)


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:

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> On 09/24/2013 08:25 AM, Adam Holt wrote:
> > Hi Braddock,
> >
> > Is it possible to ship me or George an updated IIAB within the
> > week and/or before http://olpcSF.org/summit (Oct 18-23) where we
> > hope to meet you for
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.5/Sprint ?
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> I can certainly ship you a new dataset hard drive at any time, but
> there have been no functional updates since the last drives I sent.
>
> The biggest thing we are waiting on is wikipedia search, which is
> being handled by one of our volunteers who has not had time in a
> couple weeks.  Wikipedia full-text search is not ready (although we've
> made strides in that direction), and title-only search currently
> appears buggy on the full-blown version of wikipedia.
>
> Once those fixes are in place I can get you an HD with working
> Wikipedia search, and fulfill my other immediate standing orders for
> two more stand-alone IIAB devices for Sierra Leone, two for Malawi,
> and two more for Kiribati. (my office is starting to looks like a
> shipping & receiving department)
>
> Hopefully this will happen in the next couple of weeks.  Hopefully it
> will be in time for the OLPC SF summit, but I cannot guarantee that.
>
> I will probably be unable to make the summit.
>
> My contact in Kiribati, btw, says their department of education has 20
> XO's sitting in a closet never used.  He is determined to get them
> into the hands of children on the outlying islands in the next few
> months.  I'll put you in contact with him since I don't think he has
> any connections in the OLPC community.
>
> - -braddock
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