On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 07:53:49AM -0300, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > How does a list of most read articles on any Wikipedia give a clue on what > is of interest in the Swahili Wikipedia ??? Would they really be interested > in subjects like "Sarah Palin" ?? If the idea is to have user driven > content, let it be driven by the community it is written for. It is more > likely that they are interested in an article about Mwai Kibaki or Raila > Odinga and sure enough both gentlemen have their sw.wp article. > > The only way in which you infer information about what might be of interest > for another language is when you look at the articles read from the area > where the language for a particular language is spoken. Another approach to > our data that would be beneficial. That's what I meant when I said "from IPs in the areas where the language in question is spoken". Of course I didn't mean to say we could infer what Swahili speakers wanted from sw.wp by looking at the total statistics for other Wikipedias. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough with that.
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