[Foundation-l] Priorities

[GerardM]

Hoi,
:) Thanks Florence :)
Gerard

On 10/23/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Anthony wrote:
> > At the same time, though, the English language Wikipedia is by far the
> > most successful project.
>
> Yes, but... it depends of how you measure success really. We use a very
> simple metrics, which is number of visitors. Or number of articles. But
> is it really how we should measure success in the future ?
> What is really successful I think is the impact we have, and I think the
> impact a project has goes far beyond its "number of readers". Simply,
> other impacts are not so easy to measure.
>
>
>   Of course it's going to dominate interviews
> > and presentations and news and discussions.  These are things the
> > foundation couldn't control even if it wanted to.  And surely the
> > English language Wikipedia generates the most revenue.
>
> Well, a statistician would probably consider that it would be hard to
> drive honest conclusions on this, given that there is a huge bias.
>
> Examples
> * the fundraising sitenotice is only on the english wikipedia. Not in
> any other languages, that does not help to get revenue through another
> language indeed or another project indeed...
> * our fundraising is largely meant for an english-speaking audience, not
> for any other one. The press release is exclusively in english (so it
> will not be sent to any other media than english ones). The video of
> Jimmy is in english. The general strategy fits well with a process to be
> used in the USA, far less in other countries
> * the tax deduction is only available in the USA. Not anywhere else.
> * the central figure of our fundraising is Jimmy, an american person.
>
> Now, imagine that we would do just the same, but all in chinese. We
> would display a fundraising link only on the chinese wikipedia. With
> chinese-based text press release, chinese caracters on the donation
> page, deductibility in HongKong, Taipei and Mainland China etc...
> I expect most funds would actually be generated thanks to the chinese
> wikipedia :-)
>
>    As a result,
> > shouldn't it be entitled to spend an equivalent portion of that
> > revenue?
>
> Practically, this is exactly what happens. It uses a big portion of our
> servers and bandwidth. Press is basically only done in english
> countries, not in other countries. Business is in big part done with the
> USA. Most attempts related to content partnerships have been done with
> american organizations.
>
> But entitled ? No.
>
>
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