The Wikipedia Zero Program Will End This Year (medium.com)

Wikimedia: Wikimedia 2030, the global discussion to define the future of the Wikimedia movement, created a bold vision for the future of Wikimedia and the role we want to play in the world as a movement. With this shared vision for our movement's future in mind, the Wikimedia Foundation is evolving how we work with partners to address some of the critical barriers to participating in free knowledge globally. After careful evaluation, the Wikimedia Foundation has decided to discontinue one of its partnership approaches, the Wikipedia Zero program. Wikipedia Zero was created in 2012 to address one barrier to participating in Wikipedia globally: high mobile data costs. Through the program, we partnered with mobile operators to waive mobile data fees for their customers to freely access Wikipedia on mobile devices. Over the course of this year, no additional Wikipedia Zero partnerships will be formed, and the remaining partnerships with mobile operators will expire. In the program's six year tenure, we have partnered with 97 mobile carriers in 72 countries to provide access to Wikipedia to more than 800 million people free of mobile data charges. Further reading: Medium.

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Top Barrier: the Editors

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

You want to "increase participation"? Fire all the editors and start fresh.

Re:Top Barrier: the Editors

[ScentCone]

Care to justify yourself?

How about this: it's a cesspool of ideologically driven, self-aggrandizing SJW types who use the wikipedia platform to keyboard-warrior their way along as they so love to do. They pollute almost everything they touch, and it alienates a lot of people (though not nearly as many as it should). Is that specific enough for you?