[Foundation-l] Minor projects withering and dying? Really?

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Wed Sep 21 06:51:02 UTC 2011


On 09/20/11 10:11 PM, とある白い猫 wrote:
> Certain projects are bound to loose active contributors. Projects like
> Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikispecies or even Wiktionary do not have the same
> growth curve as a general purpose encyclopedia. These tools have serious
> competition as well. Statistically looking at numbers is unwise unless you
> are going to look at it with a perspective. This is not to say these
> projects are without problem, but that doesn't mean the wikis are failures.
>
>
This is all very true. The important thing is to keep focused on your 
own project.  If you look at competing projects, rather than looking at 
their usage statistics, a better question is "What are they failing to 
do that you could do better?"

Ray



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