Hoi, I have read your comments on the WIki Indaba. Sad to hear that you could not make it.
As a movement it is not our task to serve the "2000" languages that you mention. It is our task to serve the languages that we support in our existing Wikipedias. The difference is significant. When people aim to help themselves, their culture, their language by investing their efforts in a Wikipedia, we have a process that recognises this and that leads to the start of a Wikipedia. Thanks to the Incubator, translatewiki.net we provide a native interface in all our languages. There are strong arguments why we should invest more in other languages like the top 25 languages minus English and in the other languages. The easiest argument is that English is less than 50% of our traffic.
Where you talk about subjects that people are likely to read, there are many predictive models possible. The big issue in current approaches is that they start with what we know from projects particularly the English Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia is biased and consequently many subjects that may be of a higher relevance in other languages or cultures will not be suggested when English Wikipedia and its traffic is the yard stone to measure by. Often there is more and better information in other Wikipedias. Arguably thanks to Wikidata it becomes easier to find a more composite view of the subjects people may be interested in.
Anyway, thank you for reporting on your virtual presence; you made a difference in this way. Thanks, GerardM
On 23 March 2018 at 00:41, Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
Here is the report of the one session I attended in Wiki Indaba over the past weekend: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_ reports#Wiki_Indaba_2018
Best, Leila _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l