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.
No idea what "Starlink" is 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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