Thank you for making stats, Sj. Interesting.
A thing we may take into consideration is the younger generation (I
mean early 30s or younger) seems not to be fond of emails today. They
rather seem to prefer other online message ways in their personal
communication: twitter, FB message, Google chat, skype chat (and
call), etc etc. If people don't use traditional ways like mail in
general, they may not use mailing lists either. I'd like to compare
your stats with USENET traffic stats (note: Wikimedia mailinglist on
Gmane is archived in the same fashion of USENET groups) in the same
timespan, if available.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
David, fair points. Moreover, these stats are for
amusement purposes only,
and tell little more than the email-prone nature of the community, since
almost all meaningful interchange on any projects this size take place
on-wiki. There's at least two orders of magnitude more traffic through
on-wiki fora and pages, which would be more worth invest igating.
wikispecies : last real post by Brianna, may 2007. (2k/mo, mid-2006)
wikiquote : 3k/mo (slight decline since founding, mid-2006)
wiktionary : 3k/mo (30k/mo, mid-2005)
wikibooks: 7k/mo (40k/mo, mid-2003; later peak at 20k/mo, mid-2006)
(textbook-l)
wikiversity : 20k/mo (back at peak, similar traffic on its founding, late
2006)
wikinews : 20k/mo (30k/mo, late 2007, after a long decline)
commons : 30k/mo (100k/mo, late 2007)
wiki-
de: 20k/mo (300k/mo from 2004 to early 2005)
fr: 15k/mo (100k/mo in late 2005/early 2006)
ja: 60k/mo (90k/mo in fall 2007)
pl: 125k/mo (200+k/mo in late 2004/2005)
it: 10k/mo (40k/mo in late 2005/2006)
nl: 5k/mo (12k/mo in early 2007)
sv: ?
pt: ?
wiki-research-l : 25k/mo (at peak)
pywikipedia-l : 200k/mo (steady since founding in August 2007)
mediawiki-l : 150k/mo (250k/mo, late 2005 to late 2007)
mediawiki-cvs : 9MB/mo (at peak)
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:49 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/4/27 Samuel Klein
<meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
Wikipedia-l traffic is down to 15k a month;
wikien will drop below 300k
this
month for the first time since the Indian Ocean
Earthquake.
Just on lists -
wikipedia-l is all but moribund; project discussion happens on the
project lists, cross-project discussion here. What are the numbers for
all the public lists?
wikien-l's drop in traffic can IMO be attributed to having moderated
the most querulous contributors, and their contributions tend to have
more substance per message now. I'm also still at work on encouraging
wikien-l toward being an actually useful place that an encyclopedist
would *want* to read and write on. I'm happy to say it's probably
better than useless at present, after a long time of frequently being
worse than useless.
- d.
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