On 10/23/07, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/23/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
At the same time, though, the English language Wikipedia is by far the most successful project.
{{citation needed}}
Define success?
Viewership? Wikipedia size? English Wikipedia wins the simple objective criteria like that hands down.
In September, En.wikipedia got 3,980,356,000 page views while JP had 767,759,000, De 559,142,000, Es 357,520,000, Fr 241,531,000.
En also has the most world-wide representation: http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org/wikipedia-viewer-matrix.html
Quality? Free Content? Coverage in certain knowledge domains? Harder to measure, and I'd accept an argument that some other projects might be able to claim the crown on some of these ... but Anthony said:
Of course it's going to dominate interviews and presentations and news and discussions. These are things the foundation couldn't control even if it wanted to. And surely the English language Wikipedia generates the most revenue. As a result, shouldn't it be entitled to spend an equivalent portion of that revenue?
Sounds likey that viewership is the right metric for his argument. You shouldn't even need to ask for a citation for that one.