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:
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(a)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?
WereSpielChequers
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