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 <fredb...@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 >> ---------------------------- >> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia >> From: "phoebe ayers" <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, January 13, 2011 1:53 pm >> To: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" >> <wiki-researc...@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 >> >> -- >> * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers >> <at> gmail.com * >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
