Gregory Maxwell:
The reason "how we have not reached large parts
of the world yet" is
because access to Wikipedia is significantly
influenced by things
outside of Wikimedia's control and scope.
I think a reasonable argument can be made that
Wikimedia's actions
could not produce a statistically significant
improvement in the
penetration vs population metric; simply because the
causative factors
outside of our ability to influence are so large.
Here we totally disagree, and I hope and expect the outcomes of the strategy
process will prove you wrong over time.
I am not saying it is easy to reach out where we have not done so yet, but
we overcame more hurdles.
but perhaps I did not state this bluntly enough:
You usually have no problems with being blunt (and obfuscating your posts
with rather pointless sarcasms) That was me being blunt BTW
Failure to consider this leads to bizarre conclusions
like "the lower
birth rates in the developed world compared to the
developing world
decrease Wikimedia's success over time".
QED
Surely someone must have a respectable count of
internet users by
language that we could use for comparison?
Thanks in advance for pointing me there.
If we had a goal to double the number of articles in
some reasonable
period of time we could do it. If we had a goal to
double the
penetration, ... well, unless the WMF changes its
mission nothing it
could do would get us there.
Please check mission statement
Erik Zachte