Lars Aronsson, 18/03/2013 10:38:
Are there any ideas or strategies for a good audience count?
Erik proposed some sort of successor for https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_depth : http://infodisiac.com/blog/2013/02/which-single-wikimedia-metric-would-inspi... Now that interwiki bots are on wikidata only, for your "audience" question we could maybe count how many articles have had an editor other that the creator. However, changing article count definition would require a broad discussion, and the main problem is making the count comparable between languages and if possible projects. The local decision of what's a countable namespace is the tool we currently use (but WikiStats doesn't compute it).
Nemo