Dear India WM Community,
Hope this message finds you well. As some of you may already know, our Global
Reach <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach> team builds strategic
partnerships in emerging markets to increase awareness and readership of
the Wikimedia projects, with Wikipedia Zero being one of the programs we
spearhead.
In order to better inform our projects and partnerships, we are conducting
phone surveys to help understand Wikipedia’s usage in the regions we work
on. We started with Ghana
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/Ghana_Survey>, followed by
Mexico <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/Mexico_Survey> and
Nigeria, and India is next. The survey will begin in the coming days, and
6000 people will be contacted on their mobile phones with the option of
answering the survey in the most commonly used languages in their state.
We have partnered with a Ghana-based organization called VotoMobile
<https://www.votomobile.org/>, who has considerable experience conducting
this kind of survey. Our goal is to learn more about Wikipedia awareness,
the use of internet-capable phones and the main barriers to Wikipedia’s
usage. As we have done with the previous countries, the survey data will be
publicly available on our Meta page once the survey is completed.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to us in case you have further
questions or comments. Moreover, please note that this phone survey will
run around the same time as the field survey in India being conducted under
the New Readers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers> project.
Warm Regards,
Smriti
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Smriti Gupta
Head - Strategic Partnerships
Asia and Eastern Europe
Wikimedia Foundation