[WikiEN-l] Edit/read ratio goals, was Re: "Trivia" sections in articles

[Phil Boswell]

"Ben Yates" <bluephonic at gmail.com> wrote in 
message news:2b76523c0603010709r4aca8146la957effcef40c062 at mail.gmail.com...
> On 3/1/06, The Cunctator 
> <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/1/06, Steve Bennett 
>> <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
[so much snippage...]
>> > Really? If so, that's, well, interesting. :) I wonder what Jimbo has
>> > to say on that - he often refers to African communities, without
>> > elaborating much.
>> > I suppose I'm just considering the lack of infrastructure. Getting
>> > paper copies is one thing. Getting cheap, disposable laptops that
>> > require electricity is a bit harder. But cheap internet access?
>> What, you don't think they should have internet access?
> When subsaharan internet access becomes more widespread, it is likely
> to be on mobile-phone-per-village basis rather than a
> computer-per-person one -- it'll be interesting to see what the added
> chokepoint will do to the article-writing process.

ISTR the wind-up laptops I've seen discussed have built-in networking, and 
form ad-hoc networks automagically.

So connecting a bunch of them up to the Internet might not be so 
far-fetched...

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]