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(a)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(a)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.
JPS
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