James
Readership and writership -- to coin a phrase -- aren't the same thing. English-language Wikipedia may be the fifth-most visited website in the world, but it has major problems, for example, over a million un- or badly-referenced articles, as revealed in a recent WMF Research paper and blogpost. English-language Wikinews may be at 60,829 (and so doing a lot better than Wikitribune at 435,723) but it's still the case that its three latest news stories are 2, 7 and 10 days old. This is not the picture of sites "doing fairly well".
JPS
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 6:33 PM James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
With respect to popularity per Alexa:
Wikipedia is 5th Wikimedia is 276 (includes both Commons and Wikispecies) Wiktionary is 432 Wikibooks is 1,892 Wikisource is 2,790 Wikiquote is 3,953 Wikidata is 8,848 Wikiversity is 9,372 (includes Wiki Journals) Wikivoyage is 14,850 Wikinews is 60,829
There are 644 million websites. That means all our sites are doing fairly well relatively. Wiki Journals are hoping to split off to become their own sister site. The Wiki Journals accept primary research and than subject it to peer review. Might make sense to merge Wikinews into such a site. Of course would require consensus.
James
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:16 AM Jennifer Pryor-Summers < jennifer.pryorsummers@gmail.com> wrote:
Gerard
So it is ok to deny the minority that insists they are not?
I didn't say that at all. I merely suggest that the reality is that
the
majority of volunteers take a certain view of themselves (that they are Wikpedians first and foremost ), and that the ones who take a different view of themselves (that they are Wikmedians first and foremost) are in
the
minority. That is a proposition which is capable of being tested: I have not done that test. If it were to turn out to be true, as I sugest it
is,
that would not be to "deny the minority", it would simply be to state
that
the minority turns out as a matter of fact to be a minority.
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