Hi Gerard,
It would be great if you could keep a slightly more constructive tone in
your messages. On one hand, you seem genuinely interested to help access to
free knowledge in Africa, but in your second email, you seem to jump (after
one response) to conclusions already. If you like to get real responses to
your emails, you may want to try a more constructive attitude. For me, it
is at least sufficiently offputting to disengage (I removed the rest of my
response/suggestions).
-- Lodewijk
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:34 PM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
Kiwix and off line Wikipedia did exist at the start of Wikipedia Zero. It
is great that you brought some to Africa but you do not scale and it is not
a study into the effects of what the effects are of terminating Wikipedia
Zero.
but it is not a reality for a few more years..
It sounds like we have thrown all these kids under the bus but hey, we have
plan. A plan/action is having our own caches in Africa and providing edit
and read capabilities for all who care to use it... and then measure the
extend it helps us recover from our Wikipedia Zero public.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 02:48, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We have offline Wikipedia. I have shipped devices
to Kinshasa, and
they arrived :-)
Of course they do not at all address the need for two way communication.
I am hoping Starlink will help when it comes online in a few years.
James
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:19 AM Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
The BBC shows how dramatically expensive internet is in Africa.. For in
my
> opinion local political reasons Wikipedia Zero has terminated. That is
ok
> up to a point; the point being that we
understand the consequences from
> this action.
>
> Given that our data is NOT local, people have to pay a premium. What
are
we
> going to do to compensate for expensive Wikipedia that replaced
Wikipedia
Zero? Did
we study the effects or are we not interested in the
consequences
of our actions?
Thanks,
GerardM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-50516888
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