This is an important issue and how Wikimedia and the community handles it is very important. I would caution that even those who are pirating and sharing copyrighted materials are not "bad actors," they are people who have no other file sharing options who have found a creative solution in the face of being given partial access to the internet.
Here is an article I just published on the subject:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-zero-facebook-free-basics-angola-...
On 22 March 2016 at 07:37, Mwaoshe Njemah m.njema@gmail.com wrote:
Reminder: Wikipedia Zero is actually a very good thing. We are hoping to improve the quality and quantity of articles
Mwaoshe Njemah, Siku Ya Wiki Project On 21 Mar 2016 09:58, "WereSpielChequers" werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Is much of the problem about differing varieties of Portuguese? Last I heard the Portuguese language Wikipedia allowed multiple versions of Portuguese in a similar way to English - i.e. standardised at the article level not the project level; Though the editing base is much more skewed
to
Brazil than EN is to the US. Assuming Angolan Portuguese is closer to the Portuguese spoken in Portugal, then just as in EN you are likely to get some goodfaith newbies "correcting" spelling to the version they know. If so perhaps edit filters might work. Alternatively, would it be possible
to
do something similar to the Chinese Wikipedia and display different versions of Portuguese according to user preference/IP geography?
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