On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Andreas K. wrote: > >Satisfying most users is a laudable aim for any service provider, whether > >revenue is involved or not. Why should we not aim to satisfy most our > users, > >or appeal to as many potential users as possible? > > Many Wikipedians would disagree that they or Wikipedia as a whole is a > "service provider". The first sentence on the german language version > for instance is "Wikipedia ist ein Projekt zum Aufbau einer Enzyklopädie > aus freien Inhalten in allen Sprachen der Welt." That's about creating > something, not about providing some service to others, much less trying > to satisfy most people who might wish to be serviced. > I see our vision and mission as entirely service-focused. We are not doing this for our own amusement: *Vision: Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.* * * *Mission: The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.* * * *Values: An essential part of the Wikimedia Foundation's mission is encouraging the development of free-content educational resources that may be created, used, and reused by the entire human community.* It's about providing a service to the entire human community. Quality is defined by the recipient of a service, not the producer. > I invite you to have a look at http://katograph.appspot.com/ which shows > the category system of the german Wikipedia at the end of 2009 with in- > formation about how many articles can be found under them and the number > of views of articles in the category over a three day period. You will > find for instance that there are many more articles on buildings than on > movies, many times more, but articles on movies get more views in total. > That's a fascinating piece of work. :) If I understand it correctly, the colour of each rectangle reflects average number of page views per article in this category (blue = low, orange = high), and the area of each rectangle reflects the number of articles in that category. What do the dropdown menus do? I can't figure them out. Do you have an FAQ for this application? Best, Andreas _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
