Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reader use of Wikipedia and Commons categories

User of Interlang links and categories varies strongly with placement on the page. we used to be able to see this now clearly with the multiple popular skins. today we can perhaps see this best with the multiple apps and viewers. on wp mobile, surprisingly, readers don't use categories at all!

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reader use of Wikipedia and Commons categories

I do outreach including training. From that, I am inclined to agree that readers don’t use categories. People who come to edit training are (unsurprisingly) generally already keen readers of Wikipedia, but categories seem to be something they first learn about in edit training. Indeed, one of

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reader use of Wikipedia and Commons categories

Ziko van Dijk, 24/05/2018 23:08: When it comes to Commons, I would be very interested to learn how many readers (or recipients) are actually non Wikipedia editors. It would be useful to consider less common but high value usage, for instance people looking for illustrations for a publication.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reader use of Wikipedia and Commons categories

Hello, A very interesting question. From my experience and talks with readers, I have the impression that readers usually take no notice of the categories. I could not find out why, because the category system may be indeed useful for at least some use cases. When it comes to Commons, I would be

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reader use of Wikipedia and Commons categories

Hi Pine, On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Pine W wrote: > Hi Research-l, > > My impression is that volunteers on Commons and ENWP spend a lot of time on > categorization. I have seen references to analyses of how categorization is > done, but I can't recall seeing an