The idea of an encyclopedia is to provide the information people need or want that's appropriate to the format. It would be useful to see what they want that is appropriate but we do not have -- and also useful to see what they look for that isn't appropriate for us. Within what's appropriate, I see no reason why selection of topics should not be driven by reader interests as much as by editor interests. Our purpose is not to practice our writing skills for our own benefit.
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 6:58 PM Vi to vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
The idea of a popularity-driven encyclopaedia scares 😱
Vito
Il giorno dom 10 mar 2019 alle ore 22:26 Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Hoi, I have been thinking about it.. There is a place for research but really why can we not have the data that allows us to seek out what people are actually looking for and do not find.. Why can we not promote what proves to be of interest [1] ? Thanks, GerardM
[1]
https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-marketing-approach-to-what-it...
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 22:13, Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
As I mentioned in an earlier thread [1], we will be running reader surveys across a number of Wikipedia languages to learn about the reader needs and motivations in these languages as well as some of their demographic information (and perhaps the correlations between demographics and user motivations and characteristics).
If your language community is interested to have statistics on the distribution of reader gender, age, education, native language, and geographic region (rural/urban) in your language (and depending on how much data we collect in your language, perhaps more insights), this is your chance to indicate interest at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reade...
I initially communicated 2019-02-15 as the deadline to sign up. Since then, we have run a pilot test on enwiki and we are investigating some of the results to see if any changes in the survey questions are needed. You have now time until 2019-03-15 to indicate interest.
As always: this call is primarily a service to your language community. If you like it, take action on it. If you don't, no action is needed. :)
Best, Leila
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-February/091762.html
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