[Foundation-l] [FR 07] Fundraiser 2007 -ResponsivenessofCommunity

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Maybe in the USA this is true. It is certainly not true in many other
countries even though the situation is improving. The notion that the
contribution rate on the other projects is less has also a lot to do with
the fact that the investment in time is so much bigger; you have to know
more before you can add content in Wiktionary for instance. With the
increasing amount of "things to know" Wikipedia is becoming more problematic
for new users.. This seems not to matter much as the basic facts are largely
out in the English language Wikipedia and consequently it has become a great
resource.

NB Wiktionary, particularly the English language Wiktionary has become more
useful and also its ranking has gone up a lot as a consequence :)

Thanks,
    GerardM


On 9/21/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Uh....what? No. Everyone and their dog has heard of Wikipedia. Stop.
> End Sentence. Significantly fewer people have heard of the WMF and
> the sister projects. This is evidenced by the significantly lower
> contribution rates on them. Ask  people on the street if they know
> what wikibooks or wikiversity are.
>
> -Dan
> On Sep 20, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Brian McNeil wrote:
>
> > Seriously, everyone and their dog has heard of Wikipedia, there is
> > a serious
> > problem that they don't know it is run by the WMF and there are sister
> > projects.
> >
> >
> > Brian.
>
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