[Wikipedia-l] Re: Indian languages and grants (was Re: Combined effort)

[Anthere]

Guaka a écrit:

> I think providing internet to small community centers in poor areas
> under the condition they add something to Wikipedia - you can set up
> contests to see if it could work, or to simply directly pay for every
> article of sufficient size (give out a buck, so you'll have 10.000
> articles at the end, if you'll forget about overhead costs...) is much
> more cost-effective. Once there are a 1000 articles in a Wikipedia it
> will easily advertise "itself". Sending out mails will be much more
> effective than when there is nothing...

I remember something someone told me once. He said :

do not just bring computers to our villages. Bring computers with ideas 
of how to use them, make them alive. Show us something that we can 
transform ourselves from an education or economical point of view. 
Please do not come with computers and a cd rom of wikipedia, which will 
only tell us "we made this for you, now use it", rather bring computers, 
plus a wiki installed, a system to post articles by mail and a line good 
enough to send mails and download articles from time to time.

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