Hoi Mani,
I am now subscribed on a gentlemen on twitter that expressed really
interesting and imho relevant observations about telephony and web sites in
India.
The remarks are quite strong and are not limited to India. I would love to
know a WMF reaction on this.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 1 November 2010 17:04, Mani Pande <mpande(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I am still looking for participants for the study on Wikipedia usage on the
mobile phone. I am relaxing the criteria for recruitment, and I am hoping
more Wikipedians will qualify for the study. If you read Wikipedia on the
phone (English and Indic languages) or have edited any Wikipedia on the
phone in the last one year, please email me at mpande(a)wikimedia.org. Only
readers are also welcome :) I prefer folks who read Indic languages on the
phone.
It is really important that we conduct this study to provide the right kind
of user experience to Wikipedia readers and editors in India on a mobile.
Also, we need to understand user needs, experiences and pain points to help
Wikipedia grow in India. So please email me back, if you are willing to
participate in the study.
I would ideally like to conduct the interviews over Skype, and it would
take about an hour. I have provided some details of the study, please see
below.
Thanks in advance
Mani
*Interview Objectives*
Find out whether mobile phone can be used as a platform for reading,
editing & contributing, to the Wikipedia (English & other Indian regional
languages like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada,
Malayalam etc.)
Research questions:
- How is mobile phone being used as a platform for contributing to
Wikipedia? What kinds of contributions are users making to the Wikipedia on
the mobile phone currently? Editing already existing content, contributing
new content, uploading pictures etc. What are the benefits? What are the
pain-points? What are the drivers?
- How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for contributing
content change in the next one year? What will be different about mobile
devices and networks in India?
- How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for contributing
content change in the next five years? What will be different about mobile
devices and networks in India?
- How is mobile phone being used for reading Wikipedia content? What
kind of content is accessed on the phone? What are the benefits? What are
the pain-points? What are the drivers?
- How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for reading content
change in the next one year? What will be different about mobile devices and
networks in India?
- How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for reading content
change in the next five years? What will be different about mobile devices
and networks in India?
- How do outside trends/shifts in society, technology. Economy,
environment and politics (STEEP) affect the emergence of mobile phone for
reading and editing Wikipedia? How do they affect user behaviors?
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