China and Africa

I think that those areas should be high priority. When I donate money in the fundraiser, I do so very much with those areas in mind. Actually I could have bought a yearly account on an online commercial encyclopedia for the same money each year. But when I decide to use Wikipedia and donate money to Wikimedia instead, I do so because I know that my money can enable someone that doesn't afford to pay for a commercial encyclopedia to use Wikipedia free of charge. I think this should be considered too. Maybe a lot of donors actually reasons the same way and actually wants their money to be invested in less developed regions. Their might be a good idea to make a survey on the motivation behind the donations.

At the same time I understand that investing in those areas not allways will have a very high effect. Some investments that would have high impact in for example Europe might not make a difference at all in Africa or China because the underlying infrastructure and culture that leads to succes in Europe not is present there. I do however think that every low cost-high impact solutions should have an essential priority in the strategy. I think such strategies are what we have aimed for in the Local Language projects Task Force.