Wikipedia’s free-to-access program for developing countries is being sunset

{rss:content:encoded} Wikipedia’s free-to-access program for developing countries is being sunset http://ift.tt/2EDNMu7 http://ift.tt/1UW094G February 19, 2018 at 07:49PM  A half-dozen years after launching Wikipedia Zero, The Wikimedia Foundation is sunsetting the program. Announced in 2012, it was the result of partnerships with mobile carriers, designed to waive the cost of accessing the free encyclopedia in developing countries, where data fees presented a barrier to accessing the site’s seemingly bottomless well of information. The Foundation says… Read More