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 <mpa...@wikimedia.org> 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 > Arjun > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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