Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Gerard, On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:26 PM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > but really > why can we not have the data that allows us to seek out what people are > actually looking for and do not find.. Please open a Phabricator task for this request at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org . Please add

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Leila Zia
Ciao Ilario, On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:16 PM Ilario valdelli wrote: > > Any study is interesting, but if it could be country-based, it would be > better. We agree with you that the country component is quite important. There is some ongoing engineering work to make the feature available in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Hi Vito, I believe it depends on the way it is done. An edithaton on rappers & pop stars with high-school students could be a great way to get them into the project in a fun way. Then as they keep developing and diversifying their interests, as generally happens with growing kids, they have a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Hi, I absolutely agree with the idea of finding some way to know what is more popular / wanted by readers. And if we identify with it/want to invest some time in it / whatever, then we can have a good criteria to follow about what to create first, or invest more in. I have created myself a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Vi to
Il giorno mar 12 mar 2019 alle ore 06:16 David Goodman ha scritto: > "with popular topics cannibalizing resources." > > What resources can be cannibalized? The limiting resource in WP is > interested people writing, improving, and validating articles. People > choose their own topics. This

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Benjamin Ikuta
I agree, we should not be deleting useful articles. https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism On Mar 11, 2019, at 4:52 AM, Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l wrote: > I know people in many fields with great technical expertise. people who > published articles on Science and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The point is EXACTLY that this list will be different per language. What there is, what is needed differs as a consequence. What specific Wikipedias covers is as different. There are multiple objectives to be gained: - as we gain more articles, we will gain a bigger presence for a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You will not see me write about subjects I do not care about. So the notion that anyone writing about subjects you care about is a fallacy. It takes horses for courses, you will write about what you care about and so will I. Others may look into what is missing and find that their subject

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread James Salsman
Bamyers99's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POPULARLOWQUALITY weekly list linked from the Community Portal "Help out" section addresses the issue directly, thanks to ORES. It would be great if that were adopted by the Foundation for Wikipedias other than English. Also, the links from the numbers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Helene Hahn and Mirjam Stegherr appointed to the WMDE board

2019-03-12 Thread Rajeeb Dutta
Wonderful news!! All my best wishes.. Best Regards, Rajeeb Dutta. Wikimedia India. Sent from my iPhone > On 11-Mar-2019, at 11:14 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel > wrote: > > That is great news, Lukas! > > I'm happy to see that more and more boards diverse their membership. I > think it's an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What is it that scares youi? When you want to write about the subject that you care about do. If it is popular good. That is all. What scares me is that people define what others want to / need to know. What is the propblem with providing what people are looking for? In the big Wikipedias