Wikipedia:WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools/Offline 500

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Project Name: OFFLINE 500

Purpose

To create a list of 500 articles for use as a base list for compiling 500 article offline collections for all Indic languages including English.

Guidelines

Few guidelines for taking the project forward:

• Aim is to release an English Wikipedia CD that contain a selected number of articles.
• Primary focus is on school & college students
• Need to make sure that the selected articles have more relevant from an Indian school/college student's perspective.
• Since this is the first release, we are targeting a small number of articles.
• The Articles need to have more relevance from the perspective of India.
• Articles about People will form part of the relevant section they belong to, i,e, Scientists will form part of "Science and Mathematics" section.
• Nesting of articles is permitted both under level 1 and under level 2 headings. See this for an example.

Structure

Articles are to be selected as per the following headings:

• Everyday Life
• History
• Religion, art and culture
• Language and literature
• Geography
• Science and mathematics