[Wikimedia-l] Any studies on economic impact of community-produced open data?

[Erik Zachte]

I did graph this time-zone dependency for my Wikimania 2005 talk:
http://tinyurl.com/cz9x4cn
See section "What wikipedians tell us when they are sleeping"

The second line plot shows clearly how two time zones contribute to Spanish
and Portuguese and their relative weight.

Erik Zachte


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community-produced open data?

On 4 June 2012 18:00, ??? <wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> With access across 24 time zones how do you pick out weekday office 
> hours, as opposed to evening access?

Using non-English projects would give a more clear result here, I think -
speakers of, say, Italian or German are more concentrated in a narrow
time-zone band than speakers of English. To a first approximation, 90-95% of
the access by from speakers of those languages is likely to take place in
CET; you might well get the same results for, say, Japanese.

Using Portuguese or Spanish would give you much less clear results,
comparable to English.

I don't know if anyone has graphed this, but I'd like to see the results :-)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk

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