* Andreas K. wrote: >Satisfying most users is a laudable aim for any service provider, whether >revenue is involved or not. Why should we not aim to satisfy most our users, >or appeal to as many potential users as possible?
Many Wikipedians would disagree that they or Wikipedia as a whole is a "service provider". The first sentence on the german language version for instance is "Wikipedia ist ein Projekt zum Aufbau einer Enzyklopädie aus freien Inhalten in allen Sprachen der Welt." That's about creating something, not about providing some service to others, much less trying to satisfy most people who might wish to be serviced. I invite you to have a look at http://katograph.appspot.com/ which shows the category system of the german Wikipedia at the end of 2009 with in- formation about how many articles can be found under them and the number of views of articles in the category over a three day period. You will find for instance that there are many more articles on buildings than on movies, many times more, but articles on movies get more views in total. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
