On 12 December 2012 00:22, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > David Gerard wrote:
>> OTOH, see recent coverage of Wikipedia in Africa, where it's basically >> going to be on phones. Cheap shitty smartphones. That the kids are >> *desperate* to get Wikipedia on. Do we want to make those readers into >> editors? It'd be nice. > Have a link? 'Cheap smartphone' seems a contradiction. $50 Huawei phones running an ancient Android and only getting cheaper. Jimbo's all about them. http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/50-android-smartphones-are-disrupting-africa-much-faster-than-you-think-says-wikipedias-jimmy-wales/ > I think there is a field for mobiles and one for desktop. You could do > one tasks from the other? Probably, but not as well as if you used the > right tool*. You're assuming from the position of someone who can assume a general-purpose computer with a good Internet connection. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
