If the format was compiled before Trump was elected, then this argument is either
irrelevant or becomes that the foundation must avoid offending politicians in power by
changing public statements to be uncontroversial at the time of publishing.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Keating
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 12:34 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"
So my 2p:
The issue for me is the selection of topics more than the presentation of each topic.
I'm not concerned that the document's written differently and with different
standards of sourcing to a Wikipedia article. That's fairly natural.
But selecting 2x refugees and climate change in a list of 10 things (half of which are
internally focused anyway) and those angles on things - that does read like someone
decided that the WMF annual report was the place to give Donald Trump a slap. Which
isn't what that document is there for.
Yes our mission is political in the broad sense - and as Trump doesn’t seem to believe in
the concept of facts or truth, one could argue our mission is fundamentally anti-Trump.
But that doesn't mean we should aim pot-shots at him.
Chris
(The Land)
On 2 Mar 2017 21:59, "Tilman Bayer" <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:33 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Otherwise, I haven't fact checked the whole thing,
but one problem
with
the
second sentence:
*Across the world, mobile pageviews to our free knowledge websites
increased by 170 million <http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/>.*
This needs a time element, otherwise it comes across as not really in
the same league as most stats about Wikipedia. The previous sentence
was about a whole year's activity and the following one about monthly
activity. So
it
reads like an annual figure or an increase on an
annual figure. But
the stats it links to imply something closer to a weekly figure. From
my knowledge of the stats I suspect it could be an increase in raw
downloads of 170m a day or week or unique downloaders of 170m a week.
Any of those would actually be rather impressive.
I saw this too and was wondering about the same. I think your guess is
plausible
that this refers to an increase of 170 million in *weekly* mobile pageviews (for context,
mobile web pageviews on all Wikimedia sites for December 2016, normalized to 30 days, were
7.4 billion, up 11.6% from December 2015
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_
Product&oldid=2399861#Reading_Audience>).
Even so, there are some details of the calculation that I'm still curious about, but
in any case, the increase in mobile pageviews remains a real and notable trend worth
calling out (cf.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/File:Wikimedia_mobile_pageviews_year-over-year_comparis
on_(since_May_2013).png ).
BTW, the linked report card is deprecated, as one may infer from the fact the last numbers
date from August 2016. Here is a current pageviews dashboard maintained by the WMF
Analytics team:
https://analytics.
wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/#projects=all/metrics=Pageviews
(click "Break Down by Site" to restrict to mobile views).
For the definition of pageviews in general, refer to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view .
--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
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