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Orange is a French telecommunications company that has been working with the Wikimedia Foundation for some time. They claim to be providing cheap mobile Wikipedia for children in Africa, or something.

What's the deal here? We know there must be money involved somehow.

The Orange article on Wikipedia is silent, of course. Is the "community" involved in this business with Orange?
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One also wonders how much time WMF technical staff is going to spend getting this system to work when they could be working on other priorities.
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QUOTE(Emperor @ Thu 26th January 2012, 7:43am) *
One also wonders how much time WMF technical staff is going to spend getting this system to work when they could be working on other priorities.
Uh, none? This is done entirely within Orange's network.
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QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Thu 26th January 2012, 10:18am) *

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One also wonders how much time WMF technical staff is going to spend getting this system to work when they could be working on other priorities.
Uh, none? This is done entirely within Orange's network.


I'm no MediaWiki/mobile phone expert, but in my experience nothing is quite so easy like that.

It would be nice if this public charity spelled out in writing exactly what this partnership is and what each party is agreeing to do.
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