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Is there a ref for this "1 billion people are now estimated to have free access" Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 08:44, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

It's definitely an overestimate; the mobile partnerships were estimated to cover 230m people in October, when Saudi Arabia joined. The only expansion of the program since then was when Orange launched in the DRC in December, adding a couple of a million more users. (Note that this number is the total of subscribers to the partner organisations in those countries, rather than WP readers - we know there's good uptake, but it's certainly far from 100%!) Andrew Gray (talk) 11:32, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I did request a more accurate figure, but did not receive a reply. I've corrected this version for posterity and will revisit the subject in next week's look forward. - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 09:23, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

"continues to wrangle with some developers even now"

Don't think that "wrangle" makes too much sense in that context... AnonMoos (talk) 03:28, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Guess you could mean "rankle", but that would probably require dropping the "with"... AnonMoos (talk) 04:11, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Ah yes, rankle. That's the one. "rankle with" does seem to be a thing. - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 09:20, 3 January 2013 (UTC)