On Friday 21 May 2004 14:44, Jimmy Wales wrote:
By sheer chance, I was spending a bit of time this
morning studying
charities that provide computers to Africa. According to a few
different sources, the number of computers in Africa is 3-5 per 1000
people.
It is beyond the scope of our operation to get involved in trying to
provide computers, but when computers are provided, we can help to
make them instantly useful by helping to make sure that Wikipedia is
distributed with them. So I'm contacting a few charities to see what
their experience suggests would be best.
If it is for Africa, make sure to include French and Arabic Wikipedias
alongside English.