On 10/6/10 5:43 PM, phoebe ayers 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!
Ok, maybe that's just me.... but I could not find us ! Where are we ? (north west ? south east ? )
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
I can not help feel proud by the size of the "social networking" activity of the French wikipedia. We talk a lot :)
ant
-- phoebe