[Foundation-l] Priorities

Tue Oct 23 20:01:59 UTC 2007

On 10/23/07, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > At the same time, though, the English language Wikipedia is by far the
> > most successful project.
> {{citation needed}}

Define success?

Viewership? Wikipedia size?  English Wikipedia wins the simple
objective criteria like that hands down.

In September, En.wikipedia got 3,980,356,000 page views while JP had
767,759,000, De 559,142,000, Es 357,520,000, Fr 241,531,000.

En also has the most world-wide representation:
http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org/wikipedia-viewer-matrix.html

Quality? Free Content? Coverage in certain knowledge domains? Harder
to measure, and I'd accept an argument that some other projects might
be able to claim the crown on some of these ... but Anthony said:

> Of course it's going to dominate interviews
> and presentations and news and discussions.  These are things the
> foundation couldn't control even if it wanted to.  And surely the
> English language Wikipedia generates the most revenue.  As a result,
> shouldn't it be entitled to spend an equivalent portion of that
> revenue?

Sounds likey that viewership is the right metric for his argument. You
shouldn't even need to ask for a citation for that one.