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Last week's Question of the week focused on how Wikimedia could change its technology to enable a friendlier and more welcoming environment. Certainly new technology and increasing the friendliness is one tactic that Wikipedia might use to increase participation. The following graph shows that there are some key countries with a large online populations where Wikipedia still has significant room to increase the number of users and active participants. Specifically, in China, Brazil, France, South Korea, Turkey and Indonesia, Wikipedia.org ranking is below 10. What tactics do you think could be used to increase participation in a specific country?
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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 14:08 -0600, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week
Last week's Question of the week focused on how Wikimedia could change its technology to enable a friendlier and more welcoming environment. Certainly new technology and increasing the friendliness is one tactic that Wikipedia might use to increase participation. The following graph shows that there are some key countries with a large online populations where Wikipedia still has significant room to increase the number of users and active participants. Specifically, in China, Brazil, France, South Korea, Turkey and Indonesia, Wikipedia.org ranking is below 10. What tactics do you think could be used to increase participation in a specific country?
Sorry to be blunt but, Why is this question so Wikipedia-centric? Other projects have proved ideal testing grounds for usability and such.
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Sorry to be blunt but, Why is this question so Wikipedia-centric? Other projects have proved ideal testing grounds for usability and such.
The question is meant to be about all Wikimedia projects. The data itself is Wikipedia-centric. There's simply more of it right now. I'd like to see much more data from other projects, and I hope folks here can help us identify it on the strategy wiki.
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Sorry to be blunt but, Why is this question so Wikipedia-centric? Other projects have proved ideal testing grounds for usability and such.
Because Wikipedia is the cash cow.
I was going to rant, but it became too depressing because it wouldn't have consisted of cheap shots - they were all true. Hopefully that will change one day.
- -Mike
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