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From: Ramesh N G <rameshng(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and
priorities, Telugu WP report
There is a much better report is here [1]and here [2]by Shiju.
1.
2.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2013/1/23 Vickram Crishna <vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com>
On Jan 23, 2013 11:58 AM, "Arjuna Rao Chavala" <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Rather than just the views, we need to look at the
value felt by the viewers (may be by an annual survey) as a measure of the impact of
Wikipedia's mission.
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That is a very challenging thought, Arjuna. Online surveys are potentially quite weak, as
evidenced by the Facebook voting process (for policy changes, not the Facebook
'like' feature, whose purpose itself is full of questions).
A possibility may be a continuous rating system,
with radio buttons on each page, visible to logged in users (?), or actionable only by
logged in users, rather than an optionable survey on some other page. I see difficulties
with this as well, mind you, but throw it out as a suggestion.
On the plus side, adding such user-involving features may be a way to bring in more
'mature' community involvement in knowledge creation and dissemination. I am often
struck by the manner in which some relatively half-baked 'improvement' gets to be
quite popular while worthwhile technology lies unused. 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not
in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings', said the poet, but I hope we
are part of the solution, not content to remain the problem.
Article feedback tool
currently in beta could be the impact metric that may be suitable for this purpose.
Somewhere in the future, I see some kind of 'sharing' as a possibility, whereby
individuals who have common interests can actively and dynamically connect through
wikipedia pages. That might throw up an interesting metric as well.
I understand that part of the plans for Wikipedia is to make it more social.
Cheers
Arjuna
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