On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Fabrice Florin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm so happy for everyone -- particularly for all the folks in the > developing world who are now getting access to free knowledge they wouldn't > otherwise have. This news was posted on facebook and a guy from Angola just asked when it will be available there for the Portuguese Wikipedia as well https://www.facebook.com/wikipediapt/posts/228266030650914?comment_id=947903&offset=0&total_comments=2 Kul, maybe it would be more useful for Angola and Mozambique than the Banana Republic. :) When I do the hangouts with Angolans and Mozambicans (on my spare time, sure), [Note] I'll analyse this to have a better insight. ;) Tom [Note] The statistics of a facebook page (led by volunteers) of the Portuguese Wikipedia [1] has shown some curious numbers because people who usually like it are from Luanda and Maputo cities in Africa, I've shared this information with some wikipedians [2] (obviously further analysis on this data with other methods is necessary) and invited experienced editors to participate of google hangouts where we are going to invite people from these countries to explain about Wikipedia and the Education Program. [3] Just to you have an idea, Luanda (population ~5 mi) has about 1.700 people who liked it, Maputo (pop. ~1.2 mi) 750, followed by São Paulo (pop. 11.3 mi) and Rio de Janeiro (6.2 mi) with 230 and 180, respectively. Maybe there is some bias on facebook we cannot have access to, but it will be really interesting to try to figure out that and the videos of these hangout can also be really interesting to try to understand how people in these countries use Wikipedia. A mobile project in these countries could also be interesting, but not sure if we can have it in the short term. I'll try to do these hangouts withe them, [3] anyone here is welcome to help. [1] https://www.facebook.com/wikipediapt [2] http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Estat%C3%ADsticas_sobre_a_Wikip%C3%A9dia_lus%C3%B3fona_atrav%C3%A9s_do_facebook_e_Programa_de_Educa%C3%A7%C3%A3o_na_%C3%81frica_(22fev2013) [3] http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/propostas/Web_confer%C3%AAncia_sobre_a_Wikip%C3%A9dia_e_o_programa_de_educa%C3%A7%C3%A3o_com_leitores_de_Angola_e_Mo%C3%A7ambique_(22fev2013) -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
