Thanks, Gantt, and WikiDataians,
I'll look more carefully at mobile data web site you sent -
http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats - Gantt.
In World University and School's planning, especially for the developing /
emerging world / all 3000-8000 languages / and all ~200 countries, I'd like
to see similar mobile-usage data informed by a fair amount of on-the-ground
research, partly in One Laptop per Child (OLPC) areas, but also widely
elsewhere. I'd hypothesize that the varieties of mobile internet phone
usage, and their related browsers, is large and diverse, and probably
somewhat predictable into the '5 year future,' based on the past. Which
ones to plan for is an interesting question?
WUaS is seeking to code for / create a Wiki 'front end' which reaches a
very wide variety of / almost all handheld browsers and end users, for open
wiki teaching and learning, and as archive, plus much more, for all
languages at this world university (WUaS).
Do WikiDataians know of other mobile internet phone usage statistics,
across 200 countries +? And what, for example, does Google (which works on
my handheld's Palm operating system) target, mobile-wise, as policy? Google
doesn't develop many wikis - editable web pages - that I'm aware of; I do
appreciate Google's excellence and thoughtfulness in programming, however.
(WUaS is planning an universal translator, building on Google Translate,
Sugar Labs' Translator, plus others -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator).
Gantt, WikiData is the 'back end' for the 'front end' of interactive,
editable web pages, so it should work on OLPCs where they are connected to
the internet. Sorry to get back to you with this delay - my computer was
inoperable from Friday evening until just yesterday.
Talk with you Saturday at open, hour-long, WUaS business meeting (
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting),
if not before? All are welcome to WUaS business meeting ... it's the
current decision-making meeting of World University and School.
Best,
Scott
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Galloway, Gantt <
gallowayg(a)pharmacy.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Scott -
Here's data on mobile pageviews by OS and continent (top 3 per continent).
Go to
http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats,
search on "Proportion of global Web pageviews from mobile devices, by
region, in Jan 2011 and Jan 2012".
I suspect that older OSs that didn't make the top three (and Blackberry)
are going the way of the dodo.
Will WikiData work with OLPC machines?
Gantt Galloway, PharmD
Senior Scientist, Addiction & Pharmacology Research Laboratory
California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
3555 Cesar Chavez Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 641-3370
fax: (415) 641-3380
On May 31, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Scott MacLeod wrote:
Dear Wikidatians,
Before porting World University and School (
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia
with MIT OCW) to WikiData, I'd like to learn of wikis which work on obscure
handheld browsers, particularly for older internet phones in the
developing/emerging world.
For example, Wikipedia doesn't work on my Palm Treo mobile phone using
Palm OS
4.0. For WUaS to be helpful as wiki to all 3000-8000 languages,
easy usage on all or many older mobile phone browsers will be key.
Does anyone know of a list of diverse wikis I can try on my old,
internet mobile
Palm Treo OS phone (at least as readable as New York Time's
articles, which aren't wiki, on my Palm OS),
which might in turn work
with WikiData, WikiBase and SemanticWiki?
WUaS is planning for ALL ~200 countries and 3,000-8,000 languages, as
wiki.
Thanks.
All the best,
Scott
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