Facebook, and Twitter, big with Black folk, gives people something they can relate to. Wikipedia is as dry as reading, or writing, an encyclopedia.
In a sense they ate our lunch, but millions of Facebook-like user pages can hardly be justified as a basis for charitable donations. Fred > What lovely abuse of statistics! > > By showing them indexed to the same scale, it makes it impossible to > draw the conclusion they try and draw. You need to know the *absolute* > increase in facebook usage and the *absolute* increase or decline in > total internet usage. If their numbers are correct, then facebook is > growing at the expense of the rest of the internet, but without the > absolute numbers you can't tell if it's doing so to a significant > extent. > > You really need to look at the growth in total internet usage pre- and > post-facebook as well. I expect the existence of facebook has caused a > noticeable increase in total internet usage (compared to pre-existing > trend). It is creating new internet minutes, not stealing them from > other sites. > > You should probably also look at Facebook's direct competitors. For > example, usage of MySpace has declined enormously - a lot of > Facebook's growth may have come from that decline. The article > suggests Facebook is hurting the rest of the internet, but if it's > really only hurting other social networking sites, then there is > nothing to worry about. > > The most important data for us to look at is here: > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyAllProjects.htm. > While that does show a year-on-year decline, that actually because of > a spike a year ago (I don't know why). If you smooth things out a bit, > we are seeing growth (albeit fairly low growth). What the rest of the > internet is doing isn't really important. > > > > On 25 June 2011 15:03, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: >> The web itself is passé >> >> http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-vs-the-rest-of-the-web-2011-6 >> >> Actually, we missed the boat, but that ship sailed long ago. >> >> Fred >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l