[Wikipedia-l] Re: Indian languages and grants (was Re: Combined effort)

[Mark Williamson]

A guy actually said that to you?

I think that his request should be granted :)

mark

On 07/06/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Guaka a écrit:
> 
> > I think providing internet to small community centers in poor areas
> > under the condition they add something to Wikipedia - you can set up
> > contests to see if it could work, or to simply directly pay for every
> > article of sufficient size (give out a buck, so you'll have 10.000
> > articles at the end, if you'll forget about overhead costs...) is much
> > more cost-effective. Once there are a 1000 articles in a Wikipedia it
> > will easily advertise "itself". Sending out mails will be much more
> > effective than when there is nothing...
> 
> I remember something someone told me once. He said :
> 
> do not just bring computers to our villages. Bring computers with ideas
> of how to use them, make them alive. Show us something that we can
> transform ourselves from an education or economical point of view.
> Please do not come with computers and a cd rom of wikipedia, which will
> only tell us "we made this for you, now use it", rather bring computers,
> plus a wiki installed, a system to post articles by mail and a line good
> enough to send mails and download articles from time to time.
> 
> ant
> 
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