Hoi, Kiwix and off line Wikipedia did exist at the start of Wikipedia Zero. It is great that you brought some to Africa but you do not scale and it is not a study into the effects of what the effects are of terminating Wikipedia Zero.
No idea what "Starlink" is but it is not a reality for a few more years.. It sounds like we have thrown all these kids under the bus but hey, we have plan. A plan/action is having our own caches in Africa and providing edit and read capabilities for all who care to use it... and then measure the extend it helps us recover from our Wikipedia Zero public. Thanks, GerardM
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 02:48, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
We have offline Wikipedia. I have shipped devices to Kinshasa, and they arrived :-)
Of course they do not at all address the need for two way communication.
I am hoping Starlink will help when it comes online in a few years.
James
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:19 AM Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The BBC shows how dramatically expensive internet is in Africa.. For in
my
opinion local political reasons Wikipedia Zero has terminated. That is ok up to a point; the point being that we understand the consequences from this action.
Given that our data is NOT local, people have to pay a premium. What are
we
going to do to compensate for expensive Wikipedia that replaced Wikipedia Zero? Did we study the effects or are we not interested in the
consequences
of our actions? Thanks, GerardM
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