Talk:One Laptop per Child

message: Wouldn't it be a good idea to just import the deployment stats from this page in OLPCs' Wiki?
--U5K0'sTalkMake WikiLove not WikiWar 16:15, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: +1 -- as the maintainer of that other wiki page, that would be fine by me.  I think the initial idea here was to have a table that only used data sourced to a press release in a publication of note. But this has errors in both directions. Many deployments don't issue a press release for each incremental update - large programs have usually received more laptops than their latest announcement, and smaller ones may not publish statistics in their announcements.  And some potential deployments involve politicians who like to announce programs that may not happen; as is the case for some of the data that used to be included in that table.  – SJ + 13:47, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  #PerfectCaseStudy of what can go wrong with info from PR sources only. Zblace (talk) 14:17, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  OLPC Deployment statistics 

message: Bottom half of this article is a jumble with discussion of countries and issues seemingly randomly intermixed.
Scanlyze (talk) 19:49, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Article needs cleanup and organization 

message: Why does 2B1 redirect here? K. (talk) 00:11, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. The OLPC XO-1 page actually mentions the former name for the machine: 2B1. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 12:09, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: 2B1

message: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/04/10/google-microsoft-app-office-windows-malay/2070795/
Should something be said in the intro about this? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 18:50, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: No sales in two years and schools adopting chromebooks

message: 1) Maybe I'm just missing it, but nowhere in the article do I find any clear explanation of what this project is intended to accomplish.
2) Even more pathetic is the (as far as I can tell) complete absence of any mention of the project's effectiveness.
Of course, if you don't say what the project is intended to accomplish, it makes no sense to discuss how effective it is at reaching that goal.
But Canada's eminent psychologist Susan Pinker has written in the New York Times here that the project seems to not just be ineffective at improving students' reading and math scores. Even worse, the project appears to lower them.
If someone is knowledgeable — and preferably unbiased — regarding this project, perhaps they will please add to the article a mention of 1) and if possible 2) above.  Thanks.Daqu (talk) 21:07, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The NYT article isn't discussing OLPC except in passing. The paper it references (abstract) might make a good source for the article. § Criticism discusses a number of issues raised about the project, but it is true that this article does not contain much in terms of followup analysis. Keep in mind that OLPC as an organisation is at this point, sadly, defunct. LFaraone 06:26, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pathetic absence of crucial subjects covered in article 

message: Moved here from the deployment section of the article -- John of Reading (talk) 19:03, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks John of Reading I have only used the deletion proposal template for proposing deletions of entire page that are out of date or do not warrant their own page. I was not sure how to propose modifying an entire section. Is it reasonable to wait a week and then make the proposed change? Tenason (talk) 02:01, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, a week should be enough for any interested editors to see this talk page section and raise objections. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Deployment

message: I'm copying here the references that  removed with this edit because they are no longer used in the article, to preserve them for a possible future usage. Diego (talk) 13:50, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  References archived 

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message: This article could use some wikilove. It would benefit from noting who the current officers of the corporation are. When I worked for OLPC(2008-2009) I believe there were two OLPC organizations, one a 501(c)(3) and one a LLC. Are there still two OLPC organizations today?
Parts of the article appear like a promotion for OLPC, having apparently been taken directly from the OLPC website.
Scanlyze (talk) 17:10, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs work 

message: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:DB:1F15:5700:21DC:28FE:8DF7:DD71 (talk) 14:48, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  German Version 

message: Shouldn't "One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was a non-profit" be "One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit" ? Because the program still exists today Poopykibble (talk) 04:26, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Wait bruh my bad I read the second paragraph and it shut down in 2014, sorry.  Poopykibble (talk) 04:29, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very first sentence correct tense