On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:43 AM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > xkcd's updated somewhat-but-not-strictly-scientific map of social > communities, where the size of website "territories" is determined by > the size of their userbase & activity, is out: > http://xkcd.com/802/ > > a) it's hilarious > b) look at how tiny wikimedia talk pages are! > > cf 2007 where we were a whole archipelago: http://xkcd.com/256/. > However, the 2nd map is based on "activity" rather than simply number > of users. Also note this is relative size compared to other websites. > > Ethan Bloch did an update also that has Wikipedia as being > substantially larger, which uses "estimated number of users": > http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-2010-social-networking-map > > -- phoebe
Pretty neat; maybe porn isn't on the map because there is a continent devoted to it somewhere else. Not surprised that Wikimedia is small - as a "social network" we're pretty tiny, if you don't include readers. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
