Hi, To show people how fast local Internet can be, and to try to silence people complaining that there is no local content, we uploaded a partial copy of Wikipedia to our server http://schoolwiki.mountbatten.net/
Its about 5GB of data, 5500 articles, 34,000 images and 20 million words. On our datanet link, pages load in under a second (some images take a bit longer). Its quite a breath of fresh air, compared to loading wikipedia over our international link. The project for this version of wikipedia was done by the Wikimedia foundation and SOS Children UK. Its mainly aimed at children who follow the British curriculum, which makes it pretty usefull for people in secondary schools in Uganda. Basically, if you cram all of this, you will probably pass. Off course, the most interesting page is: http://schoolwiki.mountbatten.net/wp/u/Uganda.htm (disclaimer: we didnt write the content, we just provide this as a free service. Credits go to Peter Scott, who helped obtaining the original file, and Datanet, for being the most kick-ass ISP in Uganda, providing us with a 1MB! local link. If you are not in Uganda, or if you are on a VSAT connecion, its a very bad idea to visit this site. The original wikipedia is much much faster for you: http://www.wikipedia.org and you are not wasting our precious bandwidth, too) regardless of all that, just enjoy. sorry for crossposting, please forward to anyone in Uganda who might be interested. please forward the message intact. rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net Be a professional website builder: www.easysites.ug _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
