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

[Adam Holt]

Both Haitian schools like to complain, that Wikipedia full-text-search is
not working.  Transliterating their phone/Skype complaints what I've done
below, and am hereby doing.  They need to be patient, obviously, in light
of those in their school who've come to believe Google-style searching must
be part of all offline digital libraries and similar.  Desirable perhaps
(ideally before OLPC SF's big summit Oct 18!) but I'm just happy these 2
Haitian schools are complaining, as this is proof they're actually trying
Wikipedia with the accompanying lessons we gave them :-)



On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:

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> On 09/24/2013 06:06 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
> > 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-Goāve, Haiti is confirmed very real
> > week-after-week
>
> Adam, Please forward such complaints to me, I can't do anything if I'm
> not getting bug reports from the field.
>
> Wikipedia search of titles should be working for the Haiti deployment.
>  Wikipedia full article text search was turned off.  If search is "not
> working", then something is wrong since it should produce hits of
> article titles.
>
> - -braddock
>
> > 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
> > <mailto:braddock at braddock.com>> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org
> > !
> >
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