Geoff Burling (llywrch@agora.rdrop.com) [050522 07:28]:
It's not only the third world that needs to rely on dialup; the majority of Internet users in the US -- which, last I checked, was still counted as one of the developed countries -- still have dialup connections (like yours truly). And the primary problem I have with accessing information from Wikipedia is not the article length (although a concise well-organized article is always better than a long discursive one, no matter the amount of detail contained), but the size & number of images.
Then you need to get MediaWiki 1.5 installed locally and write the user preference code to switch all images off ;-)
- d.