Re: [Wikimedia-l] "BuzzFeed: Days of Counting Pageviews and Unique Visitors Are Over"

2016-02-23 Thread Pine W
Rosemary and Toby, do you have any thoughts that you could share from the perspectives of Reading and PC about what level(s) of priority we should place on expanding the reuse of our content off of the Wikimedia sites, and what quantitative and qualitative methods Reading and PC might use to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "BuzzFeed: Days of Counting Pageviews and Unique Visitors Are Over"

2016-02-21 Thread Jeff Elder
These are good thoughts, Pine! I'm glad you brought them up. One of my favorite things about our social media in my five months at the WMF has been reaching people who are enthusiastic about the movement and eager to connect more. “Wikipedia is why, even though I spent most of my adult life out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "BuzzFeed: Days of Counting Pageviews and Unique Visitors Are Over"

2016-02-21 Thread Ed Erhart
Hi Pine, A big part of our efforts are to humanize the movement, surface our content, and reach new audiences—research shows that public awareness of Wikipedia and what it does is not as high as you'd think in emerging communities. The blog has been running in-depth and detailed articles like

[Wikimedia-l] "BuzzFeed: Days of Counting Pageviews and Unique Visitors Are Over"

2016-02-21 Thread Pine W
An interesting article in Fortune: http://fortune.com/2016/02/19/buzzfeed-metrics/. "One of the biggest challenges in online publishing, Nguyen says, is the continual process of re-evaluating what criteria the company should be looking at in order to gauge its effectiveness in reaching an