On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:30 PM, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
OK, after having given things another thought, and maybe there is a way to take money as a measure in some weight. We all seem to agree at least to some extent that members are important as a measure. But I think we all know that the membership fee is different, which would give false numbers.
So an easy measure could be the income gathered from membership fees.
The bad side is that this only scales very poorly. As long as we only take Western Europe (or even the whole "First world" in economical perspective, including Australia, Taiwan etc) into account, sure it is maybe something to consider. But if there would ever be a Wikimedia Zimbabwe, this system would very much fail of course.
But does someone have a better idea? This might though be a pro tempore solution, for the current situation (with Argentina maybe as A more complicated solution would be to correct this number with the Bruto National Product (I hope in English you use the same terminology) by some devision or so to get a factor.
The best factors to correct by would be in [[w:List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita]]. I see no reason why such a solution couldn't work.
Thanks, Pharos