Hi, everybody, we have got really good news for Chinese Wikipedia in February.
The Chinese Wikipedia has been reported by two media in mainland China. The New Magazine based in the southern province of Guangdong had an article about us on 15 Feb. Another report was from Shanghai Sunday Morning Post, published yesterday(29 Feb). This is the first time Wikipedia is reported in mainstream media in China. Besides, Chinese Wikipedia has been talked about in many Chinese blogs.
These two reports have brought in much traffic for us. We are having more newcomers, although most of their contributions are only stubs. Up to now there are 3468 registered users, and only yesterday there were only around 3,000. And in Alexa.com, we see that about 6% of the traffic is contributed by ZH Wikipedia, ( http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=wikipedia.org ) although we are not the top 10 Wikipedias. But I am worried that despite the increase in traffic, there might not be a very big increase in article counts, as from previous experiences we find that Chinese users are less willing to contribute new articles.
Chinese are known to be wise...
Fred
From: Sheng Jiong sheng.jiong@hotpop.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:18:00 +0000 To: intlwiki-l@wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Chinese Wikipedia featured by 2 media
Chinese users are less willing to contribute new articles.
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