Building on Francesc’s point:
This is also why [what is now known as] ‘Wikimedia Enterprise’ appears
twice in the Movement Strategy.[1] That is: to make sure that ‘downstream’
readers receive high quality Wikimedia knowledge (up to date, attributed…);
and also to create a new diversified revenue stream from those high-volume
reuse organisations (so that they’re financially subsidising Wikimedia, not
the other way around).
In effect: it’s an insurance policy against the risks of potential future
of declining ‘direct’ readership due to ‘intermediation’ by third parties.
It’s not a complete solution, but plays a part.[2]
[1]
- Liam / Wittylama
On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 12:39, Francesc Fort <taronjasatsuma2(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The slow but steady decrease in readerships is known
and has been
identified for a long. An important niche of readership are quick answers
for trivia (such as "what's the capital of X country") and there are tools
(some of those, powered by Wikidata) working better than a classical google
search and clicking on the Wikipedia article.
I mean, we talked a lot about this during Strategy. We just must find a
solution.
F.
Missatge de RonnieV <wikipedia(a)ronaldvelgersdijk.nl> del dia ds., 8 de
gen. 2022 a les 10:03:
Could there something be wrong with the
presentation?
The total number of edits at the English Wikipedia should have dropped
21,23%
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org
<https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org]>
The numbers at
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|ta…
do show 63.8M edits in 2021 and only 61.5M in 2020.
Do I misinterpret the graph?
---
Met vriendelijke groet,
RonnieV
Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga schreef op 2022-01-07 18:51:
There's another option: the 2020 pandemic lockdowns made a huge peak on
views, so year on year, 2021 has worse results.
2022(e)ko urt. 7(a) 18:41 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Anders Wennersten
<mail(a)anderswennersten.se>)e>):
When I look at statistics for mature wikipedias: en, de pl, nl they all
show a decrease of views of 13-15% in last 12 months from a year ago,
and number of active editors down 10- 20 % (with exception of en).
Has this been analysed somewhere, are we losing our readers and
contributors or is it mostly Google that access our info "smarter" not
creating "views"
Anders
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pl.wikipedia.org
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines
at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
Public archives at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org…
To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines
at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
Public archives at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org…
To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines
at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
Public archives at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org…
To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines
at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
Public archives at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org…
To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org
--
* Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]*
Program Manager
for *Enterprise, WikiCite,* and *Newcomer Experience*
Wikimedia Foundation