On 17 March 2016 at 19:40, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One of the
drawbacks is that we
can't report on a single total number across all our projects.
Hmm. That's unfortunate for understanding reach -- if nothing else,
the idea that "half a billion people access Wikipedia" (eg from
earlier comscore reports) was a PR-friendly way of giving an idea of
the scale of our readership. But I can see why it would be tricky to
measure. Since this is the research list: I suspect there's still lots
to be done in understanding just how multilingual people use different
language editions of Wikipedia, too.
Building on this question a little: with the information we currently
have, is it actively *wrong* for us to keep using the "half a billion"
figure as a very rough first-order estimate? (Like Phoebe, I think I
keep trotting it out when giving talks). Do the new figures give us
reason to think it's substantially higher or lower than that, or even
not meaningfully answerable?
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- Andrew Gray
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