On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:45 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)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.