James Readership and writership -- to coin a phrase -- aren't the same thing. English-language Wikipedia may be the fifth-most visited website in the world, but it has major problems, for example, over a million un- or badly-referenced articles, as revealed in a recent WMF Research paper and blogpost. English-language Wikinews may be at 60,829 (and so doing a lot better than Wikitribune at 435,723) but it's still the case that its three latest news stories are 2, 7 and 10 days old. This is not the picture of sites "doing fairly well".
JPS On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 6:33 PM James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > With respect to popularity per Alexa: > > Wikipedia is 5th > Wikimedia is 276 (includes both Commons and Wikispecies) > Wiktionary is 432 > Wikibooks is 1,892 > Wikisource is 2,790 > Wikiquote is 3,953 > Wikidata is 8,848 > Wikiversity is 9,372 (includes Wiki Journals) > Wikivoyage is 14,850 > Wikinews is 60,829 > > There are 644 million websites. That means all our sites are doing fairly > well relatively. Wiki Journals are hoping to split off to become their own > sister site. The Wiki Journals accept primary research and than subject it > to peer review. Might make sense to merge Wikinews into such a site. Of > course would require consensus. > > James > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:16 AM Jennifer Pryor-Summers < > jennifer.pryorsumm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Gerard > > > > > > > > So it is ok to deny the minority that insists they are not? > > > > > > I didn't say that at all. I merely suggest that the reality is that > the > > majority of volunteers take a certain view of themselves (that they are > > Wikpedians first and foremost ), and that the ones who take a different > > view of themselves (that they are Wikmedians first and foremost) are in > the > > minority. That is a proposition which is capable of being tested: I have > > not done that test. If it were to turn out to be true, as I sugest it > is, > > that would not be to "deny the minority", it would simply be to state > that > > the minority turns out as a matter of fact to be a minority. > > > > JPS > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>