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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
