Gregory Maxwell:
The reason "how we have not reached large parts of the world yet" is
because access to Wikipedia is significantly influenced by things
outside of Wikimedia's control and scope.
I think a reasonable argument can be made that Wikimedia's actions
could not produce a statistically significant improvement in the
penetration vs population metric; simply because the causative factors
outside of our ability to influence are so large.
Here we totally disagree, and I hope and expect the outcomes of the strategy process will prove you wrong over time.
I am not saying it is easy to reach out where we have not done so yet, but we overcame more hurdles.
but perhaps I did not state this bluntly enough:
You usually have no problems with being blunt (and obfuscating your posts with rather pointless sarcasms) That was me being blunt BTW
Failure to consider this leads to bizarre conclusions like "the lower
birth rates in the developed world compared to the developing world
decrease Wikimedia's success over time".
QED
Surely someone must have a respectable count of internet users by
language that we could use for comparison?
Thanks in advance for pointing me there.
If we had a goal to double the number of articles in some reasonable
period of time we could do it. If we had a goal to double the
penetration, ... well, unless the WMF changes its mission nothing it
could do would get us there.
Please check mission statement
Erik Zachte