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

[Plyd]

don't hesitate if you have any question, I don't have it for english
wikipedia, but it is easy to do!


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org>wrote:

> Thanks a lot for sharing! I didn't reply yet, because I didn't have had
> time to read through it properly (hopefully next week)
>
>
> 2013/4/11 Plyd <wiki.vincent at amplyd.com>
>
>> Hi,
>> It looks like nobody received this email, so I try again!
>> Vincent
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Plyd <wiki.vincent at amplyd.com>
>> Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: The value of Wikipedia for the economy
>> To: Plyd <wiki.vincent at amplyd.com>
>> Cc: "lodewijk at effeietsanders.org" <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org>, "
>> wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>,
>> Sébastien Beyou <seb35wikipedia at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Le mardi 9 avril 2013, Plyd a écrit :
>>
>> Hello,
>> > Thanks Seb35 for pointing me this email.
>> >
>> > I did a study last year about the value of Wikipedia, as a thesis for my
>> > diploma in HEC Paris. Here is the link below. It is written in french
>> and I
>> > used French Wikipedia as an example, but the methods used are the same
>> for
>> > all languages.
>> >
>> > I was looking for indicators on "how to value the job of wikipedians" so
>> > my prefered indicator was the increase of pageviews. For a glam giving
>> its
>> > material, saying how many views it generated is the best convincing
>> > argument imho.
>> >
>> > But I searched for a lots of different valuations, with each their own
>> > limits. As an example :
>> > - advertisement value : more or less the market value if a private
>> company
>> > would like to make an offer to the foundation, best evaluation is with a
>> > simple ratio of pageviews * average page view value.
>> > $8 per 1000 pageviews => $1 600 000 000 per year for all wikipedia
>> > with discounted cash flow method (with the internet growth prediction),
>> I
>> > get a $8 800 000 000 value. (2% of Apple Market Capitalisation)
>> >   limitation : the value of wikipedia relays in its contributors and if
>> it
>> > was sold, no more contributors would keep writing (and a fork would be
>> done)
>> >   limitation : the pageview value given by the foundation includes
>> bots...
>> >
>> > - "how much would it cost to write Wikipedia" ? I used the indicator of
>> > freelance journalist paid at the "word" and I multiplied by the monthly
>> > size increase of Wikipedia.
>> >   limitation : of course the choice of journalist is discutable, it's
>> not
>> > the same job, but it is close enough to be compared.
>> > I used 57,74€ for 1500 signs (a value found in france), which gave me
>> €32
>> > 000 000 per month value for french wikipedia, so with a €3000 monthly
>> cost,
>> > it gives 900 employees for french wikipedia.
>> >
>> > - I also calculated with a "time spent" indicator, calculated with
>> > wikiscan.org (15 minutes max per contribution), which gaves me a more
>> or
>> > less same result : 900 full-time contributors on fr.wikipedia.org
>> >
>> > Thesis:
>> >
>> http://www.amplyd.com/these/Valorisation%20du%20b%C3%A9n%C3%A9volat%20sur%20Wikip%C3%A9dia%20-%20FEB2012%20-%20Vincent%20Juhel.pdf
>> >
>> > Slides for a Wikimedia France presentation:
>> >
>> http://www.amplyd.com/these/Valorisation%20du%20b%C3%A9n%C3%A9volat%20sur%20Wikip%C3%A9dia%20-%20AGWMFR%2027MAI2012.pdf
>> >
>> > Don't hesitate to ask questions !
>> >
>> > Plyd
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Seb35 <seb35wikipedia at gmail.com>
>> > Date: 2013/4/8
>> > Subject: Valeur de Wikipédia
>> > To: Plyd <wiki.vincent at amplyd.com>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Si tu veux parler de ton étude de la valeur de Wikipédia, il en est
>> > question sur wikimedia-l (pas lu, juste vu le titre), ça intéressera
>> > sûrement Lodewijk.
>> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/**pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-**
>> > April/125050.html<
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-April/125050.html>
>> >
>> > Seb
>> >
>> >
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