On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:45 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The question was what problem are we trying to solve. An appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation vision statement is clever, particularly as it uses the word share, but Wikipedia currently has more visitors than nearly every site on the Internet
Note that this is more true for the top five Wikipedias than for the hundreds of other Wikimedia projects.
I think most of Twitter is noise. I think most of Facebook is noise.
Wikimedia is signal. Social media services are used by millions covering the kind of online diversity we are aiming for. Do we want to recruit new editors in that diversity or not? If we do, there we can find millions of users with the time, the equipment, and the basic education needed to do so.