On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 1:47 AM James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well the story around Osmosis has further details... They released their
> first 300 or so vidoes under an open license and they were within Wikipedia
> articles for a while. You can still see them on Commons here:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_from_Osmosis
>
> A number of folks pushed exceedingly hard for their removal. And thus they
> are no longer in EN WP. How extensively they were viewed we do not know as
> we have no way to determine that data. Our only data for videos is if the
> portion of the page they are on is loaded or not, and not if the play
> button has been pressed or how much of the video was watched.
>
> Following the breakdown of our collaboration with Osmosis they dropped the
> use of an open license, and all their subsequent material is fully
> copyrighted. Just a few weeks back they sold themselves to Elsevier...
>

WoOoW - that sounds terrible...
When was this happening and How?
This is worth writing about, reflecting and
keeping in mind for the future!
#BestPracticies #WorstPracticies

Maybe EN Wikipedia's lowest common denominator of tolerance to innovation
is too low :-(


> Now one of the legitimate criticisms of these videos is that they were not
> easily collaboratively editable. We have built software to make
> collaborative editing of video easier. Unfortunately currently it is down
> and we are needing to find a programmer able and willing to fix it, we at
> Wiki Project Med do not have much funding available...
> https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:VideoWiki
>

It is admirable you do not give up on this.

Best Z. Blace


> James
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 4:53 PM Juergen Fenn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, James. I think this is an important point. So we could say we
>> have lost a part of acedemia.
>>
>> More to the point, we seem to have failed to integrate course materials
>> and multimedia formats into Wikipedia articles.
>>
>> Could we try and create some of these and integrate them into articles
>> relevant to students in oder to test whether this makes a difference to
>> them? Or do you think they would stick to Osmosis etc. anyway?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jürgen.
>>
>> Am 08.01.22 um 00:38 Uhr schrieb James Heilman:
>> > With respect to some anecdotal evidence, I have for many years asked the
>> > medical students who work with me on their clinical rotations how they
>> > study. I get a few passes through my department a month.
>> >
>> >  Most reported using Wikipedia 5 to 10 years back. Now sources like
>> > Osmosis, which are basically short video overviews with questions banks
>> > attached, are more commonly mentioned. Video is becoming a more common
>> > way for younger folks to learn.
>> >
>> > James
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:55 PM Mohamed ElGohary <[email protected]
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     "Is the traffic measured where content is read" would be a better
>> >     way of putting it.
>> >
>> >     --
>> >     Gohary (ircpresident)
>> >
>> >     On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 12:52 AM Juergen Fenn <[email protected]
>> >     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >
>> >         Anders raised the question how this relates to "smarter"
>> >         machine-created
>> >         traffic. Do we know more about this?
>> >
>> >         Best Regards,
>> >         Jürgen.
>> >
>> >         Am 07.01.22 um 21:45 Uhr schrieb James Heilman:
>> >         > Have been tracking medical pageviews for EN WP for more than
>> >         10 years.
>> >         > It appears our readership peaked around 2014, there was a bump
>> >         during
>> >         > the pandemic, and now the fall in pageviews is
>> >         continuing again... This
>> >         > despite much of our pageviews for medicine continuing to be
>> >         related to
>> >         > the pandemic.
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png
>> >         <
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png
>> >
>> >         >
>> >         <
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png
>> >         <
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png
>> >>
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages
>> >         <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages
>> >
>> >         >
>> >         <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages
>> >         <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages
>> >>
>> >         >
>> >         > James
>> >         >
>> >         > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:09 AM Toni Ristovski
>> >         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> >         > <mailto:[email protected]
>> >         <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>> >         >
>> >         >     Additionally, pandemic 2020 with a lot of lockdowns makes
>> many
>> >         >     people commit to different activities, among them starting
>> >         editing
>> >         >     on Wikipedia or reading more. Basically, in my opinion it
>> >         is better
>> >         >     to compare with 2019 numbers. Also, it will be useful to
>> >         have some
>> >         >     kind of survey about this which can give us a better
>> >         overview of
>> >         >     these data.
>> >         >
>> >         >     As I`m editor and admin on Macedonian Wikipedia, I was
>> quite
>> >         >     surprised that our Wikipedia actually continues to grow in
>> >         terms of
>> >         >     reading and having a stable editing base.
>> >         >
>> >         >     All the best,
>> >         >     Toni
>> >         >
>> >         >     On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 6:52 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>> >         >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> >         <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>> >         wrote:
>> >         >
>> >         >         There's another option: the 2020 pandemic lockdowns
>> >         made a huge
>> >         >         peak on views, so year on year, 2021 has worse
>> results.
>> >         >
>> >         >         2022(e)ko urt. 7(a) 18:41 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du
>> >         (Anders
>> >         >         Wennersten <[email protected]
>> >         <mailto:[email protected]>
>> >         >         <mailto:[email protected]
>> >         <mailto:[email protected]>>>):
>> >         >
>> >         >             When I look at statistics for mature wikipedias:
>> >         en, de pl,
>> >         >             nl they all
>> >         >             show a decrease of views of 13-15% in last 12
>> >         months from a
>> >         >             year ago,
>> >         >             and number of active editors down 10- 20 % (with
>> >         exception
>> >         >             of en).
>> >         >
>> >         >             Has this been analysed somewhere, are we losing
>> >         our readers and
>> >         >             contributors or is it mostly Google that access
>> >         our info
>> >         >             "smarter" not
>> >         >             creating "views"
>> >         >
>> >         >             Anders
>> >         >
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