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Wikipedia begins piloting program to send articles via texts, aimed at developing nations

article published on 25 October, 2013

Wikipedia has confirmed they have begun piloting a service that sends articles via SMS (texts), with the service aimed at users in Africa and other nations where data plans are not as abundant. The encyclopedia has teamed up with carrier Airtel to offer the service for free, with initial testing taking place in Kenya. Dan Foy, technical partner manager for the Wikimedia Foundation, ... [ read the full article ]

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this is a brilliant idea! wikipedia can be a godsend at times :D
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