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by Golf_Hotel_Mike 4215 days ago
I think you are completely misunderstanding the purpose of Wikipedia Zero if those are the use cases you're showing me. It is not meant for people to get information about movies and watch videos. It is meant to give them some basic level of information about the world around them. No other online resource has the breadth and variety of Wikipedia.

> There have also been several recent studies that say Wikipedia's medical information is unreliable and dangerous.

Nobody is going to use Wikipedia to diagnose diseases. But suppose I live in a country with a cholera problem and search for 'chronic diarrhea' on the web. Wikipedia will be able to point me to a few probable causes, and will give me some primary hints about what I'm supposed to do.

If there isn't a doctor nearby to tell me this, and there isn't a public library with a medical encyclopedia nearby, and I can't afford a PC with internet access, how else am I supposed to find out?