Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
by pwinnski on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:01PM
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Yes, in the US at least, wikimedia has been very effective. That doesn't seem like "most markets" to me. In fact, not so much the rest of the world at all, and even in the US, now does not seem like the time to stop and let that decline.
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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
by dlubarov on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:33PM
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Maybe my wording was a bit strong, but the US is a pretty small minority of Wikipedia's usage. If we look at article counts, about 12% of articles are in English (5.8M of 49.3M): https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm
Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
by pwinnski on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:58PM
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Right, so more than twice as much as #2 (2.3M), at least in December 18.
And more recently, the US has more than four times as many pageviews as #2 (4B to Japan's 1B)[0].
So no, I don't think the work is done outside the US, and I think maintaining a leading position doesn't happen automatically, so I don't think the work is entirely done inside the US, either.
0. https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/reading/page-view...