[Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

[Jonathan Hall]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 07:53:49AM -0300, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> How does a list of most read articles on any Wikipedia give a clue on what
> is of interest in the Swahili Wikipedia ??? Would they really be interested
> in subjects like "Sarah Palin" ?? If the idea is to have user driven
> content, let it be driven by the community it is written for. It is more
> likely that they are interested in an article about Mwai Kibaki or Raila
> Odinga and sure enough both gentlemen have their sw.wp article.
> 
> The only way in which you infer information about what might be of interest
> for another language is when you look at the articles read from the area
> where the language for a particular language is spoken. Another approach to
> our data that would be beneficial.
That's what I meant when I said "from IPs in the areas where the
language in question is spoken". Of course I didn't mean to say we could
infer what Swahili speakers wanted from sw.wp by looking at the total
statistics for other Wikipedias. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough with that.

J

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