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This is the project page for a series of Wikipedia CDs/DVDs being produced by Wikipedians and SOS Children. The latest version can be browsed at schools-wikipedia.org and downloaded here
The 2007 DVD was a huge success, with distributions to schools in four countries, use by the Hole in the Wall project, thousands of downloads and discs and around 14,000 unique IPs a day visiting the online version.
Downloads started on 15 October 2008. The 2008/9 version has 33,716 images, 19.8m words and 5502 articles. The article list has gone up to 5500 articles with about 1500 added and 600 removed from the 2007 version as more relevant articles for kids have reached adequate quality thresholds. Pretty much all of them have been updated to more recent versions since the 2007 version. They are still sorted by curriculum topics with some portal pages for curriculum subjects added. This will still be free by any route.
As well as updating checked content and improving the selection, this time some portal pages have been included such as SchoolsWP:Portal:Early Modern Britain which closely match UK curriculum subjects. A joint press release was made to coincide with the availability of downloads.
Articles which were listed on the Version 0.7 selectionbot pages and previous editions were all considered by volunteers. All submitted articles then go through a clean-up script to remove Fair Use images, all sentences whose only purpose was to link to unincluded articles (e.g. "see also"), stubs and editorial content, and sections containing material unsuitable for children and external links. Where articles had been vandalised or contained questionable material the most recent good version was used.