On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:43 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
xkcd's updated somewhat-but-not-strictly-scientific map of social communities, where the size of website "territories" is determined by the size of their userbase & activity, is out: http://xkcd.com/802/
a) it's hilarious b) look at how tiny wikimedia talk pages are!
cf 2007 where we were a whole archipelago: http://xkcd.com/256/. However, the 2nd map is based on "activity" rather than simply number of users. Also note this is relative size compared to other websites.
Ethan Bloch did an update also that has Wikipedia as being substantially larger, which uses "estimated number of users": http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-2010-social-networking-map
-- phoebe
Pretty neat; maybe porn isn't on the map because there is a continent devoted to it somewhere else. Not surprised that Wikimedia is small - as a "social network" we're pretty tiny, if you don't include readers.