[Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,

   - Many of the Wikipedias do not show any growth
   - other Wikipedias are young and they do not get the kind of attention
   like en.wp did
      -  they do not have a Jimbo to evangelise their project.
      - often the language technology does not really support their language
      - a lack of localisation hampers acceptance
      - how to get past the bus factor while the project is still small
   - other Wikipedias are much bigger and may be plotted on such a graph
   however, there are so many things different that is makes little sense if
   you do not study why projects behave like they do.

Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/8/16 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>

> 2009/8/16 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>
> > For me while interesting, it is hardly new and therefore not that
> > interesting what people like Ed H Chi write about Wikipedia. They do not
> > write about Wikipedia, they write about the English language Wikipedia.
> > Invariably news written about Wikipedia concentrates on just one of over
> 260
> > projects. It diminishes what Wikipedia is about and it ignores important
> > things that are happening.
>
>
> Yes, completely. Do other Wikipedias show the same S-curve of growth?
> Large ones, small ones? *That* is interesting. Let's see if we can
> encourage PARC along these lines. Or indeed competing researchers.
>
>
> - d.
>
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