On 7/20/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 7/20/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
If we end up somewhere in the 60-70% success range I guess that's acceptable, but I'd like this confirmed with a reasonable sample of users and an explicit question.
Also, one important thing to check for is whether this level of success is reasonably evenly distributed by origin. If entire countries have trouble playing video, that's still a massive usability problem.
In that regard we're already going to be screwed: Without enough bandwidth to transfer the file in a reasonable amount of time video is useless, most of the surface of the earth doesn't have connectivity out there to support video. And all the bandwidth in the world won't help when you're browsing with a 386/33 ... a system which can't play video with any of the formats discussed.
Once you've considered the basic technology access issues, factors that we could possibly control will probably only have a small impact.
Right now the only project which I am sure are using the player are Enwikipedia, and Commons. I understand that it's been copied over to a number of other projects, I've left that up to whomever is interested. It doesn't help that the player isn't localizable (although I reduced the text in it to a minimum, the next version will be).
There doesn't appear to be any country bias for people who can't play it.. but the numbers of people who try are so English heavy that any such bias would be hard to see.
Out of the big data set, the country codes which successfully played files are included here. They compare well to enwiki's edit numbers at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edits_by_project_and_country_of_origin Too bad we didn't collect commons data at the time.
pct of files country ---------- ---------- 46.161705 US 8.380746 GB 5.744694 CA 4.793547 None (the geodb I used has no answer for these IPs) 4.283144 DE 3.314089 FR 3.244331 AU 1.949951 JP 1.809875 NL 1.151989 PL 1.118146 IT 1.053846 ES 1.039349 SE 0.908946 BE 0.831416 BR 0.690950 CH 0.668656 FI 0.622678 NO 0.619389 IN 0.576579 SG 0.521002 DK 0.508357 IE 0.484698 HK 0.447614 AT 0.433531 TR 0.432386 PT 0.430875 NZ 0.417986 TH 0.417084 PH 0.398372 RO 0.389259 MY 0.373787 IL 0.360776 HU 0.315554 CZ 0.274864 MX 0.251035 AR 0.246479 TW 0.228570 GR 0.223868 RU 0.195068 ZA 0.189123 CL 0.175381 HR 0.167730 SI 0.160835 AE 0.157229 KR 0.156035 LT 0.146922 SA 0.140393 EE 0.137907 EG 0.114858 BG 0.106988 SK 0.102017 CO 0.094513 VN 0.092515 PR 0.091248 MA 0.088592 ID 0.086545 CS 0.085546 IS 0.084036 PE 0.080673 VE 0.077067 LV 0.063740 MT 0.058598 CR 0.054627 PK 0.052580 CN 0.048170 LU 0.042444 KW 0.037596 UA 0.034696 QA 0.029969 IR 0.029141 JO 0.028020 MK 0.027728 BA 0.025608 DO 0.025413 PA 0.025096 LK 0.024511 A2 0.023805 BH 0.022635 CY 0.021880 JM 0.019590 DZ 0.018688 EU 0.016958 UY 0.016958 TT 0.016032 EC 0.016008 OM 0.014668 LB 0.014034 GE 0.013620 GT 0.013547 SV 0.012743 BS 0.012231 BN 0.011305 MO 0.010282 KE 0.009965 NI 0.009965 BO 0.009746 SY 0.008796 TN 0.008138 NG 0.008041 BD 0.007870 HN 0.007846 MU 0.007602 AL 0.007578 BM 0.007383 AW 0.006774 AN 0.006432 GU 0.006335 BB 0.006067 AZ 0.005701 GI 0.005628 KZ 0.005239 YE 0.005141 MD 0.004995 BY 0.004897 MN 0.004361 MC 0.004313 LY 0.004166 FJ 0.004020 CI 0.003972 SN 0.003874 GD 0.003850 FO 0.003850 AG 0.003387 GH 0.003216 NP 0.002997 MV 0.002924 TZ 0.002899 BW 0.002705 UZ 0.002583 VI 0.002583 AM 0.002412 PY 0.002388 BZ 0.002266 LI 0.002242 ZW 0.002193 KY 0.002144 PF 0.002047 UG 0.001925 ET 0.001876 VC 0.001852 SD 0.001681 IQ 0.001511 ML 0.001486 KH 0.001486 AD 0.001413 ZM 0.001413 LC 0.001364 NC 0.001316 PS 0.001267 NA 0.001243 GL 0.001194 BF 0.001170 HT 0.001170 DM 0.001096 AI 0.001048 MG 0.001023 RW 0.000999 SM 0.000950 LA 0.000926 CM 0.000902 MP 0.000877 KN 0.000877 AP 0.000853 MZ 0.000682 VG 0.000658 AO 0.000633 MW 0.000585 TG 0.000536 PG 0.000536 GM 0.000463 GA 0.000463 BJ 0.000439 PW 0.000439 CK 0.000365 TO 0.000365 CV 0.000365 AF 0.000341 WS 0.000341 SR 0.000317 SC 0.000317 MR 0.000317 CD 0.000292 KG 0.000292 FM 0.000268 DJ 0.000244 SB 0.000244 MM 0.000219 VU 0.000219 SL 0.000219 NE 0.000146 TJ 0.000146 SO 0.000146 BT 0.000146 BI 0.000122 FK 0.000097 SZ 0.000073 CF 0.000049 KI 0.000024 VA 0.000024 NF 0.000024 MQ 0.000024 MH 0.000024 GN 0.000024 ER 0.000024 CG 0.000024 AS