Hoi, While the USA is considered a developed country, the people in the USA who have least to spend are probably as deserving of zero rated Wikimedia service as many of the people who do get Wikipedia Zero elsewhere. The article indicates that our mission is to bring information to people and that is no different in the USA. With Wikipedia and its sister projects considered as a way to bring quality, neutral point of view information, it would even serve as a means to combat the misinformation that will benefit from zero rating of information.
Zero rating is bad in so many ways but your argument does only say that it was originally intended for developed countries. When there is a benefit to our readers I only see upsides in promoting the use of Wikimedia content in this way and no reason not to have Wikimedia Zero in the USA. Thanks, GerardM
On 26 November 2017 at 03:56, Mz7 mz7.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
The relationship between net neutrality and the Wikimedia Foundation has been described as “complicated” – see [1]. Considering the that the Wikimedia Foundation has a zero-rating program of its own (see [2][3]), I’m not exactly sure how much this would affect Wikimedia, whether positively or negatively. On the one hand, we could take advantage of the change by expanding Wikipedia Zero into the United States. On the other hand, that’s probably not a good idea because the program is designed to promote access to free knowledge in developing countries, where access to the Internet may be prohibitively expensive. In a developed country such as the United States, that’s not really a prioritized issue.
Mz7
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/ 11/25/wikipedias-complicated-relationship-with-net-neutrality/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
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On Nov 24, 2017, at 5:06 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, With the demise of net neutrality in the USA, have their been
consideration
for the impact it may have for the services provided by the Wikimedia Foundation?
We are reliant on servers in the USA, as the quality of the service in
the
USA is no longer a given, what are the risks? Thanks, GerardM _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
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