Thanks for your feedback. It is a good point that data cost continue to be prohibitive. But our preliminary research has shown that users in India are using mobile phones (not just smart phones) which have a data plan (pre-paid or post paid) to access the Wikipedia.

I am interested in speaking with these users. I am planing to do qualitative interviews with a small sample of users, it is not a survey. I will keep your advice in mind, if we take the survey route, in the coming year.

On Oct 25, 2010, at 5:23 PM, arjuna rao chavala wrote:

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Mani Pande <mpande@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to introduce myself and also use this listserv for recruiting for a study that I am doing to understand the user experience of reading the Wikipedia on the mobile phone and understand the possibilities/feasibilities of using the mobile phone as a platform for editing the Wikipedia.

Consumer price level smart phones which can support reading and editing Indian languages have started appearing in the scene just now (Nokia C3 at 6500/-approx is available for Hindi and three other devanagari type languages). The data access prices have not yet fallen unlike voice communication and sms prices. It will be better to do the survey after six months.

Cheers
Arjun
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