Yes but we are speaking about Turkey.
Kiwix is offline but also *portable*. It's sufficient to download once and
to distribute many times.
Kind regards
Il 08 Mag 2017 12:11, "Gabriel Thullen" ha scritto:
> Yes, we need to promote Kiwix. We need to ensure that people with no
> internet access c
Yes, we need to promote Kiwix. We need to ensure that people with no
internet access can get Kiwix and that means that we do need to "clone
Wikipedia content".
It is quite expensive to download Kiwix because of the huge data charge
that it implies, and it also takes for ever with a poor connection.
We need to promote Kiwix - definitely, but should we promote Wikipedia
zero? May be not, unless the issue of net neutrality is clearly addressed.
We need to remember that some countries had to ban different zero services,
as they clearly violated net neutrality and people were against them.
Regard
In these cases the big advantage is the capacity to be cloned. A
governement can block an ip or a domain but it would be hard to block
internet.
The good approach is to invite the web to host kiwix and zim files for
downloading. That would be easier than cloning Wikipedia content.
However that ap
I agree with James that we need to encourage initiatives like Kiwix
Wikipedia Zero. We need to be able to distribute Kiwix in countries that
have blocked Wikipedia, because it is no big deal for a government to block
the Kiwix.org site as well, and phone operators providing Wikipedia Zero
will have
The issues occurring in Turkey highlight that we may also need to keep in
mind:
* Access
over the next 15 years. Where access is not only potentially hindered by
governments but also technical and monetary realities in various country
and region. We of course have already worked and continue to d
