Post mortem

After the project had ended, we contacted the schools to request for feedback. These were the most common responses we got:

Challenges

• The content of the offline Wikipedia was created by SOS UK, based on the British curriculum, therefore not fully appropriate for Kenyan students.
• Some of the computers were obsolete and/or old, making the installation painfully slow.
• One school complained about the technical difficulty in re-installing the offline Wikipedia.

Successes

• Free and readily available to students and teachers, as opposed to textbooks that were quite expensive for some students to afford.
• We noticed that it was more frequently used in computers that were located in a library setting as compared to those that were in a computer laboratory.
• Some students really liked the coloured, illustrative images. Apparently, this was more appealling to the eye and brain, as compared to a similar black and white image drawn on a textbook or blackboard.

What we're planning to do next

• Create a custom-made version of offline Wikipedia that is in accordance to the Kenyan curriculum.
• Deploy this new version country-wide.