Hoi, You ask for a better idea :)
Google just finished the Swahili Wikipedia challenge. Google very much wants to grow traffic, any traffic in African indigenous languages. Spending money directly on any language is imho a bad idea but I would welcome statistics that show what people are looking for in Wikipedia that they cannot find. When you add statistics on new articles that proved most popular in the last month(s), we provide ANY Wikipedian a mechanism to learn what articles make most sense to write and show what did best.
This will benefit all our project and the smaller projects will benefit most I expect. <grin> it is not even expensive to implement I guess. Thanks, GerardM
On 17 February 2010 15:38, Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent news. I'm a big fan of Google (not saying they won't ever turn evil!) and switching between Google and Wikimedia products/projects accounts for 90% of my time online. It's great to see them both in harmony with each other.
The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything?
I vote we remove everything from our Google articles regarding privacy concerns for one day and put a banner on the articles saying:
"Wikimedia Thanks Google with This Slightly More Positive Article Than Usual!"
And then tomorrow we just revert our own edits.
Does anyone have a better idea?
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