<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week">http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week</a><div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Last week's </span></font><a href="/wiki/Question_of_the_week_(archive_2009-12-14)" title="Question of the week (archive 2009-12-14)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Question of the week</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> focused on how Wikimedia could change its technology to enable a friendlier and more welcoming environment. Certainly new technology and increasing the friendliness is one tactic that Wikipedia might use to increase participation. The following graph shows that there are some key countries with a large online populations where Wikipedia still has significant room to increase the number of users and active participants. Specifically, in China, Brazil, France, South Korea, Turkey and Indonesia, Wikipedia.org ranking is below 10. What tactics do you think could be used to increase participation in a specific country?</span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><Graph and link to participate are at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week></span></font><br></span></font><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">____________________</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Philippe Beaudette</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "></span>Facilitator, Strategy Project<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">philippe@wikimedia.org</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">mobile: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>918 200-WIKI (9454) <br><br>Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in<br>the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!<br><br></span></font><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate</span></font></a></div></div></div></span></div> </div><br></div></body></html>