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

2019-03-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have been thinking about it.. There is a place for research 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.. Why can we not promote what proves to be of interest [1] ? Thanks, GerardM [1] https://ultimategerardm.b

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

2019-03-10 Thread Vi to
The idea of a popularity-driven encyclopaedia scares 😱 Vito Il giorno dom 10 mar 2019 alle ore 22:26 Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Hoi, > I have been thinking about it.. There is a place for research but really > why can we not have the data that allows us to seek ou

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

2019-03-10 Thread David Goodman
The idea of an encyclopedia is to provide the information people need or want that's appropriate to the format. It would be useful to see what they want that is appropriate but we do not have -- and also useful to see what they look for that isn't appropriate for us. Within what's appropriate, I s