[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia]

[Fred Bauder]

Always a wonderful question, whether a difference is caused by one thing
or another. I just remember when I first came on the internet running
CP/M with a 300-bit/s modem. Lynx was my friend. Poor people have poor
ways and that is the issue, the vast majority of our potential audience,
thinking on a global basis, is desperately poor. A 200k page with 30
images just won't load.

Fred

> There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that
> probably has more to do with it.
>
> Thanks,
> Pharos
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
> wrote:
>> "Broadband use remains another predictor, as 59% of those with home
>> broadband use the service, compared with 26% of those who connect to
>> the
>> internet through dial-up."
>>
>> Many images... Although a sophisticated user can turn them off or use
>> lynx.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> User:Fred Bauder
>>
>> --------------------------- Original Message
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>> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia
>> From:    "phoebe ayers" <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
>> Date:    Thu, January 13, 2011 1:53 pm
>> To:      "Research into Wikimedia content and communities"
>> <wiki-research-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> As you all may have seen there is tons of media coverage coming out
>> around Wikipedia's 10th anniversary (Jan 15, 2011). In the midst of
>> this the Pew Internet Research Center released a new report today:
>>
>> "Wikipedia, past and present"
>> http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx
>>
>> -- phoebe
>>
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