[Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook

[Kul Takanao Wadhwa]

Hi Gerard,

On 4/22/10 1:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> Will we learn the traffic data from Facebook? Will we be able to do the
> kind of data analysis that we do on our own traffic data ?

Great question. This involves some coordination with the usability team 
and Dr. Z (Erik Zachte) so we should be able to do this when we're 
ready. For example, Howie on the usability team said that he'd like to 
analyze fb users and their subsequent editing behavior after arriving at 
wikipedia and compare this to other traffic sources such as google and 
our own home page. This could answer questions like: are fb users more 
likely to edit given that they, on average, are already publishing on 
the Internet through their status updates/comments/etc? It would be 
really interesting to learn more here which would help us make better 
decisions about other partners we should work with.

On a separate note, I owe you a follow-up answer on language support for 
mobile. We're analyzing the situation now and I will reach out to you 
directly on that.

--Kul