Hoi,
While the USA is considered a developed country, the people in the USA who
have least to spend are probably as deserving of zero rated Wikimedia
service as many of the people who do get Wikipedia Zero elsewhere. The
article indicates that our mission is to bring information to people and
that is no different in the USA. With Wikipedia and its sister projects
considered as a way to bring quality, neutral point of view information, it
would even serve as a means to combat the misinformation that will benefit
from zero rating of information.
Zero rating is bad in so many ways but your argument does only say that it
was originally intended for developed countries. When there is a benefit to
our readers I only see upsides in promoting the use of Wikimedia content in
this way and no reason not to have Wikimedia Zero in the USA.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 26 November 2017 at 03:56, Mz7 <mz7.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The relationship between net neutrality and the Wikimedia Foundation has
> been described as “complicated” – see [1]. Considering the that the
> Wikimedia Foundation has a zero-rating program of its own (see [2][3]), I’m
> not exactly sure how much this would affect Wikimedia, whether positively
> or negatively. On the one hand, we could take advantage of the change by
> expanding Wikipedia Zero into the United States. On the other hand, that’s
> probably not a good idea because the program is designed to promote access
> to free knowledge in developing countries, where access to the Internet may
> be prohibitively expensive. In a developed country such as the United
> States, that’s not really a prioritized issue.
>
> Mz7
>
> [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/
> 11/25/wikipedias-complicated-relationship-with-net-neutrality/
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
> [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
>
> --
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mz7
>
> > On Nov 24, 2017, at 5:06 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hoi,
> > With the demise of net neutrality in the USA, have their been
> consideration
> > for the impact it may have for the services provided by the Wikimedia
> > Foundation?
> >
> > We are reliant on servers in the USA, as the quality of the service in
> the
> > USA is no longer a given, what are the risks?
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
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