[Wikimedia-l] The value of Wikipedia for the economy

[Mathieu Stumpf]

Le 2013-04-08 16:13, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
> Fred Bauder, 08/04/2013 15:38:
>> Don't worry. Any one who has thought about this sort of thing much 
>> has
>> come away more puzzled than when they began. What for example is the
>> "value" of a cigarette? The price is rather easy.
>
> Better example: what is the value of a park, of trees in a city, of a
> public library, etc. Maybe the question would be "easier" to answer 
> if
> rephrases as: what's the impact on HDI, on
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness (;-) ) or 
> other
> measures that somehow numerical but not monetary.
>
> Nemo

I totaly agree.

On the other way, how will react an official political personn with HDI 
statistics? Do anyone here have real experience of such a statistic in 
political debate? I mean, if you make a great and serious article but 
that political instances will take it as a "hippy nonsense" because it 
doesn't even speak about $, €, ¤…, what the point?

Now if you mean to make such an article for the comunity, definetely go 
for the "Gross national happiness" and so on way to analyze. :)