[Wikimediaindia-l] geo-tagged articles from India

[Mani Pande]

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to share with you this visualization of geo-tagged articles from
South Asia, including India.  Please see the image
here.The
analysis was conducted by a researcher at the Oxford Internet
Institute, Mark Graham, who has been conducting research on geo-location
and Wikipedia. The data is only from English Wikipedia.  It is interesting
to note  concentration of geo-tagged articles from Kerala, Nepal and Indian
metropolises: Mumbai. Delhi, Chennai etc. Mark has done more analysis in
his blog, and he informed me that he would love input from the community in
India. If you would like, please provide him insights through the comment
section.

Mark has been using publicly available data to conduction geo analysis of
Wikipedia articles, and editors.  If you would like to read more about his
research, you can visit his website
here.


Thanks
Mani
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[Wikimediaindia-l] happy diwali

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Happy Diwali everyone!! Warm wishes on this auspicious occasion to all
Indian Wikipedians.

Best of luck from all of us in San Francisco.
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[Wikimediaindia-l] mobile user study in India

[Mani Pande]

Just a friendly reminder, please see my earlier message below about 
participating in the mobile study. Please let us know ASAP if you are 
willing to participate in the study.

Thanks
Mani

Mani Pande, PhD
Head of Global Development Research
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On 3/23/11 10:34 AM, Mani Pande wrote:


We're launching a study to observe and understand Wikipedia editors' 
current reading and editing practices, with an emphasis on mobile 
devices, but to also include desktop and laptop computers and other 
devices used in their editing and reading processes. We have 
commissioned Mosoci [http://mosoci.com/] to carry out this research 
project which will include a 3-phased process:  a. A short online 
homework assignment  b. A 2 hour F2F interview  Wikipedia  editors (to 
be conducted in New Delhi and Bangalore April end - early May) c. 
Potentially participate in a workshop with the Wikipedia team as 
well.  We are looking for Wikipedia editors in English, Hindi, 
Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil. This list obviously leaves out 
more languages than it includes, but since it is a qualitative study 
we had to make some hard decisions to limit the scope of the study. 
But we will be conducting subsequent quantitative research in India in 
the summer.


As is our policy at Wikipedia, we have discouraged our research agency 
from offering any monetary incentive for this project - however, in 
the spirit of Wikipedia, we assure you an interesting journey and 
conversation.  Your participation is extremely valuable to us and we'd 
like to show our appreciation by giving you some Wikipedia memorabilia 
like T-shirts, stickers, badges etc. But most importantly, it will be 
to ensure that we understand the needs of Wikipedia editors in India 
and provide a platform that enables the editing process.


In addition to Wikipedia editors, we will be also speaking with 
Wikipedia readers in India to understand the experience of reading 
Wikipedia primarily on the mobile phone in India.


This research is critical for meeting our strategic objectives of 
increasing participation and reach in India. The research in India is 
the first phase of the global user experience study that we are 
embarking upon. We will be conducting similar studies in Brazil and US 
in the summer.


If you'd like to participate and help us grow, do let us know by March 
31 by replying to this thread or writing directly to me at 
mpa...@wikimedia.org or to Dina Mehta from Moscoi at d...@moscoi.com.


Thanks in advance
Mani

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia mobile user study in India

[Mani Pande]

Hi Everyone,

We're launching a study to observe and understand Wikipedia editors' 
current reading and editing practices, with an emphasis on mobile 
devices, but to also include desktop and laptop computers and other 
devices used in their editing and reading processes. We have 
commissioned Mosoci [http://mosoci.com/] to carry out this research 
project which will include a 3-phased process:  a. A short online 
homework assignment  b. A 2 hour F2F interview  Wikipedia  editors (to 
be conducted in New Delhi and Bangalore April end - early May) c. 
Potentially participate in a workshop with the Wikipedia team as well.  
We are looking for Wikipedia editors in English, Hindi, Malayalam, 
Kannada, Telugu and Tamil. This list obviously leaves out more languages 
than it includes, but since it is a qualitative study we had to make 
some hard decisions to limit the scope of the study. But we will be 
conducting subsequent quantitative research in India in the summer.


As is our policy at Wikipedia, we have discouraged our research agency 
from offering any monetary incentive for this project - however, in the 
spirit of Wikipedia, we assure you an interesting journey and 
conversation.  Your participation is extremely valuable to us and we'd 
like to show our appreciation by giving you some Wikipedia memorabilia 
like T-shirts, stickers, badges etc. But most importantly, it will be to 
ensure that we understand the needs of Wikipedia editors in India and 
provide a platform that enables the editing process.


In addition to Wikipedia editors, we will be also speaking with 
Wikipedia readers in India to understand the experience of reading 
Wikipedia primarily on the mobile phone in India.


This research is critical for meeting our strategic objectives of 
increasing participation and reach in India. The research in India is 
the first phase of the global user experience study that we are 
embarking upon. We will be conducting similar studies in Brazil and US 
in the summer.


If you'd like to participate and help us grow, do let us know by March 
31 by replying to this thread or writing directly to me at 
mpa...@wikimedia.org or to Dina Mehta from Moscoi at d...@moscoi.com.


Thanks in advance
Mani

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India

[Mani Pande]

Welcome Hisham
It is great to have you on board.
Mani

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On 2/15/11 10:36 AM, Hisham Mundol wrote:

Dear All

Thank you for the welcome.

I'm tremendously motivated by this assignment.  Wikimedia's mission is 
both noble and inspiring.  I can't imagine a more exciting time and 
place to be in.


There's been a huge amount that's already been achieved in India by 
the community - and I am eager to learn from the community how this 
was done.  I also know that there's incredible opportunity to make 
even more rapid strides, and I look forward to working with the 
community for this.


Warm Regards,

hisham

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Barry Newstead 
mailto:bnewst...@wikimedia.org>> wrote:


Dear colleagues, (please feel free to cross-post this to local
lists within India)

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a
consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our
program initiatives in India.

As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a
strategic priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I
announced our plans for the formation of an office in August 2010
and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the
creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in June 2010. India is a
priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong and growing
community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language
projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve
our mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact
elsewhere. The engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia
Foundation to pilot new initiatives aimed at accelerating the
growth of the community in India. I am very happy we’ve now
reached this point.

As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in
India but we have a long way to go to achieve our full potential
as a movement.  Indians represent 4% of the world’s Internet users
today (and this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of
page edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase
this share - across all projects - and expand readership in a
corresponding fashion.

Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs.  He
will report to me.  His role will be to design and implement
specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become
contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as
English. The National Programs initiative will focus on the
following areas in the first year:

   *

  Design and implement an India-wide program to increase
  Wikimedia’s footprint on university and college campuses
  with students and faculty with the aim of encouraging
  contributions to Wikimedia projects

   *

  Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated
  programs that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia
  projects

   *

  Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong
  relationship among these stakeholder groups and create
  communications forums that allow for effective partnerships

As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will
be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values,
culture and mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming
weeks (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting
with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25
and then Hisham will join community meetings across the country as
they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San Francisco with the
staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with other
like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the
chapter conference in Berlin.

Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will
share what he is learning and develop the core elements of the
action plan going forward. We encourage active community
engagement on this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly and
welcome input and guidance from across the community.

Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health
Foundation of India (in a partnership with the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation). He designed and implemented large-scale
national  programs on HIV/AIDS prevention. He worked to understand
the dynamics of hard-to-reach communities by conducting in-depth,
on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell you about his experience
talking to drivers while sitting under their trucks).  The
programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people in
large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to
change very persona

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: First release of Report Card for India (Beta)

[Mani Pande]

On 1/15/11 8:25 AM, Shiju Alex wrote:
The statistics is for the whole English wikipedia. It is not the 
statistics based on the edits from India. Country breakup is not 
included in this report.


This is a subset of the report that is available at 
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm


Following are the things included in this India Specific report:

* Only languages of Indian Sub Continent are included (of course
  English is one among them)
* Only some important parameters are included
* 2 charts are included to show the page views and number of
  active editors

Country breakup for each language wikipedia is available at 
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdown.htm 
and 
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryTrends.htm





Shiju




On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:39 PM, B.G. Mahesh <mailto:mah...@oneindia.co.in>> wrote:



This is a very nice report. Just trying to understand it a little
more, I am looking at the English Wiki stats, does it mean from
India 1,159 new articles were contributed per day (for Sept 2010).

And what does the English article count (34m) reflect - a total of
34m English articles have been contributed so far from India?

regards,

Bishakha Datta wrote:, On 15-01-2011 AM 10:15:


A wonderful birthday gift from Erik Zachte to all of us. Happy 10th!
Bishakha

-- Forwarded message --
From: *Erik Zachte* mailto:erikzac...@infodisiac.com>>
Date: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:27 AM
Subject: First release of Report Card for India (Beta)

Dear all,

Here is the first release of a Report Card for India, mostly
following Mani’s proposed layout. As promised just in time for
the 15^th , and even including automatically generated charts. (R
is a productive tool, but fine tuning chart layout is not exactly
trivial).

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/ReportCardIndia.htm

The charts show multi-year trends, as this provides a much better
perspective than one year line plots.

The plan is to switch to multi-year trends on the General Report
Card as well.

Of course this is only a first draft. More key metrics could be
added (e.g. number of admins per 1000 editors).

Shiju, I hope this also can serve as a basis to ease your monthly
reporting chore, please let me know what you think it.

Also I hope to generate this ‘wiki at a glance’ report for each
Wikimedia and provide other regional sets.

/ /

Happy 10^th anniversary!

Erik Zachte

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Hi Shiju and everyone,
We are working on deploying web analytics on our data so we can segment 
data by geography (IP address). It would take about a month or two since 
it is requires tech infrastructure upgrades then we would have data for 
English wikipedia from India.

Mani


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia

[Mani Pande]

On 1/14/11 5:12 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:




[press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia
http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/3117.html

Regards
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Just FYI, Nimish is not an Indian, he is from Nepal so still from the 
Indian sub-continent :)



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[Wikimediaindia-l] support for Indic script

[Mani Pande]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to figure out which Indic languages are supported on different 
mobile operating systems. I have created a table to map support for Indic 
languages on different mobile OS, I would appreciate if you would populate the 
table so we can have a clearer understanding on scripting for Indian languages.

You can find the link on the strategy wiki. Here is the link: 
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile/Forecasts/India

Thanks
Mani


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crossed the 15, 000 article mark

[Mani Pande]

Congrats :) Here is an observation, I can read the Malayalam script on my 
iPhone, but not on my computer.

On Nov 10, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Barry Newstead wrote:

> Great news!  Congrats.
> 
> Barry
> 
> On 11/10/2010 09:44 AM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote:
>> 
>> Congrats! ആശംസകള് :)
>> 
>> - Sundar
>>  
>> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
>> the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
>> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>> 
>> 
>> From: Naveen Francis 
>> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> Sent: Wed, November 10, 2010 10:58:03 PM
>> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crossed the 15, 000 article 
>> mark
>> 
>> Malayalam Wikipedia has crossed the 15,000 article milestone today.
>> Congrats Malayalam wiki community !!!
>> 
>> -- 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

[Mani Pande]

Thanks, Srikanth.
I would love to hear from someone who uses a high end phone, and I can promise 
it would be a very interesting conversation that would help provide a better 
user experience for everyone who reads and edits Wikipedia on the phone :)
Mani

On Nov 5, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:

> Heya guys, I think somebody like hari Prasad, Anoopan, or somebody with a 
> high end phone, [Android/BlackBerry/iPhone/Nokia Eseries] et all, get in 
> touch with Mani as that segment was completely left out by me, when we had 
> our conversation.
> 
> --Regards,
> 
> On 1 November 2010 22:09, Gerard Meijssen  wrote:
> Hoi Mani,
> I am now subscribed on a gentlemen on twitter that expressed really 
> interesting and imho relevant observations about telephony and web sites in 
> India.
> 
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/10/about-foss-and-telephony-in-india.html
> 
> The remarks are quite strong and are not limited to India. I would love to 
> know a WMF reaction on this.
> Thanks,
>GerardM
> 
> On 1 November 2010 17:04, Mani Pande  wrote:
> 
>> Hi Everyone,
>> 
>> I am still looking for participants for the study on Wikipedia usage on the 
>> mobile phone. I am relaxing the criteria for recruitment, and I am hoping 
>> more Wikipedians will qualify for the study. If you read Wikipedia on the 
>> phone  (English and Indic languages) or have edited any Wikipedia on the 
>> phone in the last one year, please email me at mpa...@wikimedia.org. Only 
>> readers are also welcome :) I prefer folks who read Indic languages on the 
>> phone.
> 
>> It is really important that we conduct this study to provide the right kind 
>> of user experience to Wikipedia readers and editors in India on a mobile. 
>> Also, we need to understand user needs, experiences and pain points  to help 
>> Wikipedia grow in India. So please email me back, if you are willing to 
>> participate in the study.
> 
> I would ideally like to conduct the interviews over Skype, and it would take 
> about an hour. I have provided some details of the study, please see below.
> 
> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> Mani
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Interview Objectives
>> 
>> Find out whether mobile phone can be used as a platform for reading, editing 
>> & contributing, to the Wikipedia (English & other Indian regional languages 
>> like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam 
>> etc.)
>> 
>> Research questions: 
>> 
>> How is mobile phone being used as a platform for contributing to Wikipedia? 
>> What kinds of contributions are users making to the Wikipedia on the mobile 
>> phone currently? Editing already existing content, contributing new content, 
>> uploading pictures etc. What are the benefits? What are the pain-points? 
>> What are the drivers?
>> How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for contributing content 
>> change in the next one year? What will be different about mobile devices and 
>> networks in India?
>> How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for contributing content 
>> change in the next five years? What will be different about mobile devices 
>> and networks in India?
>> How is mobile phone being used for reading Wikipedia content? What kind of 
>> content is accessed on the phone? What are the benefits? What are the 
>> pain-points? What are the drivers?
>> How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for reading content change 
>> in the next one year? What will be different about mobile devices and 
>> networks in India?
>> How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for reading content change 
>> in the next five years? What will be different about mobile devices and 
>> networks in India?
>> How do outside trends/shifts in society, technology. Economy, environment 
>> and politics (STEEP) affect the emergence of mobile phone for reading and 
>> editing Wikipedia?  How do they affect user behaviors? 
>> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Season's Greetings!

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शुभ दीपावली . आप सभ को दिवाली मुबारक हो . 
Happy Diwali everyone.

On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:

> A very happy Diwali to you all and best wishes for the new year!
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
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[Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

[Mani Pande]

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am still looking for participants for the study on Wikipedia usage on the 
> mobile phone. I am relaxing the criteria for recruitment, and I am hoping 
> more Wikipedians will qualify for the study. If you read Wikipedia on the 
> phone  (English and Indic languages) or have edited any Wikipedia on the 
> phone in the last one year, please email me at mpa...@wikimedia.org. Only 
> readers are also welcome :) I prefer folks who read Indic languages on the 
> phone.

> It is really important that we conduct this study to provide the right kind 
> of user experience to Wikipedia readers and editors in India on a mobile. 
> Also, we need to understand user needs, experiences and pain points  to help 
> Wikipedia grow in India. So please email me back, if you are willing to 
> participate in the study.

I would ideally like to conduct the interviews over Skype, and it would take 
about an hour. I have provided some details of the study, please see below.


> Thanks in advance
> Mani
> 
> 
> 
> Interview Objectives
> 
> Find out whether mobile phone can be used as a platform for reading, editing 
> & contributing, to the Wikipedia (English & other Indian regional languages 
> like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam etc.)
> 
> Research questions: 
> 
> How is mobile phone being used as a platform for contributing to Wikipedia? 
> What kinds of contributions are users making to the Wikipedia on the mobile 
> phone currently? Editing already existing content, contributing new content, 
> uploading pictures etc. What are the benefits? What are the pain-points? What 
> are the drivers?
> How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for contributing content 
> change in the next one year? What will be different about mobile devices and 
> networks in India?
> How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for contributing content 
> change in the next five years? What will be different about mobile devices 
> and networks in India?
> How is mobile phone being used for reading Wikipedia content? What kind of 
> content is accessed on the phone? What are the benefits? What are the 
> pain-points? What are the drivers?
> How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for reading content change in 
> the next one year? What will be different about mobile devices and networks 
> in India?
> How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for reading content change in 
> the next five years? What will be different about mobile devices and networks 
> in India?
> How do outside trends/shifts in society, technology. Economy, environment and 
> politics (STEEP) affect the emergence of mobile phone for reading and editing 
> Wikipedia?  How do they affect user behaviors? 
> 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

[Mani Pande]

Hi Arjuna,
Thanks for your feedback. It is a good point that data cost continue to be 
prohibitive. But our preliminary research has shown that users in India are 
using mobile phones (not just smart phones) which have a data plan (pre-paid or 
post paid) to access the Wikipedia.

I am interested in speaking with these users. I am planing to do qualitative 
interviews with a small sample of users, it is not a survey. I will keep your 
advice in mind, if we take the survey route, in the coming year.

Thanks
Mani




On Oct 25, 2010, at 5:23 PM, arjuna rao chavala wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Mani Pande  wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I wanted to introduce myself and also use this listserv for recruiting for a 
> study that I am doing to understand the user experience of reading the 
> Wikipedia on the mobile phone and understand the possibilities/feasibilities 
> of using the mobile phone as a platform for editing the Wikipedia. 
> 
> Consumer price level smart phones which can support reading and editing 
> Indian languages have started appearing in the scene just now (Nokia C3 at 
> 6500/-approx is available for Hindi and three other devanagari type 
> languages). The data access prices have not yet fallen unlike voice 
> communication and sms prices.  It will be better to do the survey after six 
> months.
> 
> Cheers
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[Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

[Mani Pande]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to introduce myself and also use this listserv for recruiting for a 
study that I am doing to understand the user experience of reading the 
Wikipedia on the mobile phone and understand the possibilities/feasibilities of 
using the mobile phone as a platform for editing the Wikipedia. 

I am Mani Pande, and I recently joined the Global Development team at Wikipedia 
to do research that will help Wikipedia grow in the global south. I work 
closely with other folks in the global development team (Barry, Kul etc) who 
many of you probably know. I have worked as a researcher for the last 6 years, 
and have a PhD in Sociology. Before joining Wikipedia, I worked for Institute 
for the Future, a forecasting research company, based in Palo Alto, CA.

I would like to recruit both Wikipedia readers and editors in India. I am 
looking to speak with folks who either read the Wikipedia on the phone (at 
least once a week) or have made some edits (two or more) on the phone in the 
last six months. I would like to conduct an interview over Skype. The interview 
would be about an hour.  It would touch on the questions listed below. 

If you are interested in participating in the study, please email me at 
mpa...@wikimedia.org. Or if you believe someone else will be a great fit for 
this study then please feel forward this email.

Thanks in advance
Mani



Interview Objectives

Find out whether mobile phone can be used as a platform for reading, editing & 
contributing, to the Wikipedia (English & other Indian regional languages like 
Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam etc.)

Research questions: 

How is mobile phone being used as a platform for contributing to Wikipedia? 
What kinds of contributions are users making to the Wikipedia on the mobile 
phone currently? Editing already existing content, contributing new content, 
uploading pictures etc. What are the benefits? What are the pain-points? What 
are the drivers?
How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for contributing content change 
in the next one year? What will be different about mobile devices and networks 
in India?
How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for contributing content change 
in the next five years? What will be different about mobile devices and 
networks in India?
How is mobile phone being used for reading Wikipedia content? What kind of 
content is accessed on the phone? What are the benefits? What are the 
pain-points? What are the drivers?
How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for reading content change in 
the next one year? What will be different about mobile devices and networks in 
India?
How will the role of mobile phone as a platform for reading content change in 
the next five years? What will be different about mobile devices and networks 
in India?
How do outside trends/shifts in society, technology. Economy, environment and 
politics (STEEP) affect the emergence of mobile phone for reading and editing 
Wikipedia?  How do they affect user behaviors? 

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