[Foundation-l] [Wikinews-l] Strategy Question of the Week: Dec 14

[Brian McNeil]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 14:08 -0600, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week
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> Last week's Question of the week focused on how Wikimedia could change
> its technology to enable a friendlier and more welcoming environment.
> Certainly new technology and increasing the friendliness is one tactic
> that Wikipedia might use to increase participation. The following
> graph shows that there are some key countries with a large online
> populations where Wikipedia still has significant room to increase the
> number of users and active participants. Specifically, in China,
> Brazil, France, South Korea, Turkey and Indonesia, Wikipedia.org
> ranking is below 10. What tactics do you think could be used to
> increase participation in a specific country?

Sorry to be blunt but, Why is this question so Wikipedia-centric? Other
projects have proved ideal testing grounds for usability and such.

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> <Graph and link to participate are
> at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week>
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> Philippe Beaudette 
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> Wikimedia Foundation
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Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>
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