Wikipedia is testing offline on Africans

Already in 2014, mobile phone owners will have the opportunity to get offline access to Wikipedia.

The Wikimedia Foundation announced in conjunction with Airtel testing a new free service, Wikipedia Zero, which will allow you to receive free information from the encyclopedia as an SMS message.

The pilot project today for three months will be tested on residents of Kenya, according to Gazeta.ru.

To receive an article from Wikipedia, you will need to send an SMS with the code * 515 # from your mobile phone, after which you will be able to reply to several messages specifying the subject of the article you are interested in and the selected article will be in your phone.

And download any application is not necessary, however, just as well as pay for the articles received.

Representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation report that in the future, billions of mobile device owners will be able to use the Wikipedia Zero service, which for some reason will not be able to access the mobile Internet. For example, pupils and students during exams.

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