FREE ACCESS OF WIKIPEDIA ON MOBILE
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero //Stephe Wikimedia Kenya Board Member
Cool. So the mobile operators pick up the cost of data transmission vi partnerships with the Wikimedia Foundation (if I understand correctly). I wonder which local MNO will do this first, if any? On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Stephen Wanjau <stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
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It is a mutually beneficial partnership to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Mobile Service Providers; *To the MSP* * Positive marketing and PR benefit to supporting the mission, and the opportunity of offering a unique service to new and potential customers *Data we have collected at WMF shows that 28% of existing readers would be more likely to buy services from an operator that provided Wikipedia Zero. *To the Wikimedia Foundation* *Aim is to reduce barriers to accessing free knowledge in a quest to let everyone share in the sum of all human knowledge. //Stephen On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Cool. So the mobile operators pick up the cost of data transmission vi partnerships with the Wikimedia Foundation (if I understand correctly).
I wonder which local MNO will do this first, if any?
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Stephen Wanjau < stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke> wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
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Nice. I assume you would know if the Wikimedia Foundation has already approached the local MNO's. Any of them biting? In other words, when can this become a reality for Kenyans. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Stephen Wanjau <stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke
wrote:
It is a mutually beneficial partnership to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Mobile Service Providers;
*To the MSP*
* Positive marketing and PR benefit to supporting the mission, and the opportunity of offering a unique service to new and potential customers
*Data we have collected at WMF shows that 28% of existing readers would be more likely to buy services from an operator that provided Wikipedia Zero.
*To the Wikimedia Foundation* *Aim is to reduce barriers to accessing free knowledge in a quest to let everyone share in the sum of all human knowledge.
//Stephen
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
Cool. So the mobile operators pick up the cost of data transmission vi partnerships with the Wikimedia Foundation (if I understand correctly).
I wonder which local MNO will do this first, if any?
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Stephen Wanjau < stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke> wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
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I thought Orange already does this in various African countries
Yeah Orange is already doing this in Various countries, I am not aware of any plans here in Kenya though. //Stephen On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
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so facebook zero, wikimedia zero ..... these are the top sites. will be interesting for how long this can be sustained. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Wanjau <stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke
wrote:
Yeah Orange is already doing this in Various countries, I am not aware of any plans here in Kenya though.
//Stephen
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Wikipedia Zero is an initiative by the Wikimedia foundation to increase reach and access to educational info to the global South where most of the users access the Internet over their mobile phones. The Wikipedia zero is a text only version since from a previous research images on Wikipedia pages consume up-to 50% of the data while loading. The global South needs access to such a resource of information to develop and attain 'things' like vision 2030. AFAIK, the Wikipedia zero will be there for as long as man lives. //Stephen On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:03 PM, John Gitau <jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
so facebook zero, wikimedia zero ..... these are the top sites. will be interesting for how long this can be sustained.
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Wanjau < stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke> wrote:
Yeah Orange is already doing this in Various countries, I am not aware of any plans here in Kenya though.
//Stephen
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