Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Дана Thursday 14 January 2010 09:24:16 Nikola Smolenski написа: > At Wikipedia Page Views Per Country - Overview, could you in future > include number of Internet users (f.e. from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users > ) and number of views per Internet user?

Re: [Foundation-l] Sex-related content improvement

2010/1/14 Jiří Hofman : > Just go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse . You will see > there is no really high quality image of human sexual intercourse. File:Housefly mating.jpg is a featured image. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing l

Re: [Foundation-l] Sex-related content improvement

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bod Notbod wrote: >>Or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sex_positions , one of the most >>viewed pages of English Wikipedia. Do you think the images there are of >>excellent quality? I don't. > > > I think they have a certain innocent charm. They look l

Re: [Foundation-l] Sex-related content improvement

>Or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sex_positions , one of the most >viewed pages of English Wikipedia. Do you think the images there are of >excellent quality? I don't. I think they have a certain innocent charm. They look like pictures drawn by an illiterate who needed a hobby whil

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2010/1/14 Nathan : >> To avoid the very real chance that the subjects of explicit photos are >> underage or have not given publishing consent, I would like to see >> Commons require proof of model release, and age verification, for >> explici

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2010/1/14 Nathan : >> To avoid the very real chance that the subjects of explicit photos are >> underage or have not given publishing consent, I would like to see >> Commons require proof of model release, and age verification, for >> explic

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

2010/1/14 Nathan : > To avoid the very real chance that the subjects of explicit photos are > underage or have not given publishing consent, I would like to see > Commons require proof of model release, and age verification, for > explicit images. And how exactly would they do that? Upload a pictu

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2010/1/13 private musings : >> G'day all, >> I continue to have concerns related to the growing number of explicit images >> on WMF projects (largely commons) - but rather than banging on with dull >> mailing list posts which gaurantee a chor

Re: [Foundation-l] Sex-related content improvement

> 2010/1/14 Jiří Hofman : > > It is clear that much of sex-related multimedia stored in our project is of > > a very low quality, not meeting our requirements and needs. Often, it > > doesn't provide what we are looking for - high quality information. > > That isn't clear to me. Could you elabor

Re: [Foundation-l] Sex-related content improvement

2010/1/14 Jiří Hofman : > It is clear that much of sex-related multimedia stored in our project is of a > very low quality, not meeting our requirements and needs. Often, it doesn't > provide what we are looking for - high quality information. That isn't clear to me. Could you elaborate? __

Re: [Foundation-l] Sex-related content improvement

I think this is a great idea actually. Probably a good place to start would be the WikiProject: Sex page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_sexuality Commons would probably be (or should be) interested as well. Cheers DM On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Jiří Hof

[Foundation-l] Sex-related content improvement

Hello! It is clear that much of sex-related multimedia stored in our project is of a very low quality, not meeting our requirements and needs. Often, it doesn't provide what we are looking for - high quality information. I propose to start a project which would encourage, by a form of contest a

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

2010/1/13 private musings : > G'day all, > I continue to have concerns related to the growing number of explicit images > on WMF projects (largely commons) - but rather than banging on with dull > mailing list posts which gaurantee a chorus of groans, I'm trying to be a > bit less dull, and have ma

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

Explicit images don't need to be used in an "encyclopedic" context (Wikimedia is more than just an encyclopedia). They just have to be _potentially_ useful in any Wikimedia project context (that's the narrow, utilitaristic view on Commons) or in any possible educative context (that's the more b

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2010/1/14 David Goodman : > >> As for the link, showing these in greatly enlarged versions, without >> the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a >> strong bias. We've never engage

Re: [Foundation-l] upload.wikimedia.org blocked in China?

Its Forbidden in here Finland too. Olli 2010/1/14 shi zhao > upload.wikimedia.org blocked in China? > > ping upload.wikimedia.org no response in Beijing, China. > > Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ > My blog: http://shizhao.org > twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao > > [[zh:User:Shi

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

Дана Thursday 14 January 2010 05:59:39 David Goodman написа: > As for the link, showing these in greatly enlarged versions, without > the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a > strong bias. We've never engaged in that use of the material, nor http://wikistics.falsikon.d

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, David Goodman wrote: > As for the link, showing these in greatly enlarged  versions, without > the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a > strong bias. We've never engaged in that use of the material, nor > would we. If people want to ta

[Foundation-l] upload.wikimedia.org blocked in China?

upload.wikimedia.org blocked in China? ping upload.wikimedia.org no response in Beijing, China. Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My blog: http://shizhao.org twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao [[zh:User:Shizhao]] ___ foundation-l mailing l

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Marcus Buck wrote: > > It would make sense. But at the moment  WMDE is not even actively doing > anything for the _native_ languages of Germany except for German. I > think that would be the first step to do. > I had a quick look at the native languages of Italy,

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

2010/1/14 David Goodman : > As for the link, showing these in greatly enlarged  versions, without > the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a > strong bias. We've never engaged in that use of the material, nor > would we. If people want to take our material out of our enc

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Nikola Smolenski hett schreven: > In Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown I also notice something > that should affect chapter relations: there are some Wikipedias which > are read from foreign countries more than from the country of origin > (probably b/c readers from diaspora is riche

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010/1/14 Nikola Smolenski : > Nikola Smolenski wrote: >> In Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown I also notice something >> that should affect chapter relations: there are some Wikipedias which > > Also, any ideas why is Commons so popular in Spain and Latin America? Some Wikipedias - th

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Nikola Smolenski wrote: > In Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown I also notice something > that should affect chapter relations: there are some Wikipedias which Also, any ideas why is Commons so popular in Spain and Latin America? Commons (commons) (0.010% share of global total) Spain

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Andre Engels wrote: > Going through the countries, another remarkable result in my opinion > is the Ukraine - Ukrainian is not a small language by any means, yet > Wikipedia visitors tend to be drawn to the Russian Wikipedia instead. > > Also, the Q3-Q4 comparison for most countries shows a shift

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our readers come from? And, (sorry) one more question: is the first time that such reports are being released? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Ziko van Dijk wrote: >> Thank you for the numbers, Erik! >> I wonder why 40 % of the visitors of ksh.WP (the dialect of Cologne) are >> from Japan. And why 25 % of the visitors of eu.WP (Basque) are from Poland? > > Bots? I think that's a

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Thank you for the numbers, Erik! > I wonder why 40 % of the visitors of ksh.WP (the dialect of Cologne) are > from Japan. And why 25 % of the visitors of eu.WP (Basque) are from Poland? Bots? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Hello, Thank you for the numbers, Erik! I wonder why 40 % of the visitors of ksh.WP (the dialect of Cologne) are from Japan. And why 25 % of the visitors of eu.WP (Basque) are from Poland? Kind regards Ziko 2010/1/14 Mark Williamson > I think there are two main factors influencing this: > > #

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

I think there are two main factors influencing this: # Fluency of the Internet-using population of a country in English. In a country like Japan, basic English is widespread but real reading comprehension on the level necessary for reading WP articles is not (as far as I know at least). Scandinavi

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

H what saddens me is that such a low percentage use the Thai wikipedia in Thailand instead of the English one. Having lived in Thailand for over 10 years now my estimation is that only 10% of the populous would speak English good enough to be able to read English wikipedia articles at least

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > > To quantify this, I have taken the 50 largest countries, excluding > languages where English is the main language (United States, United > Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Philippines, Singapore, Ireland, > New Zealand, South Africa). For

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our readers come from? > > > >   http://tinyurl.com/yhdej3j Going through the countries, another remarkable result in my opinion is the Ukraine - Ukra

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our readers come from? > > http://tinyurl.com/yhdej3j Except for Australia-Japanese, there is also this: Sierra Leone (0.0007% share of global total) Russian Wp 44.9% Englis

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Ethnologue has numbers for all languages although their information is often outdated or not 100% accurate, it is sufficient if you're doing a list with many languages. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Erik Zachte wrote: > > Today I released 4 new reports, which all fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our readers come from? > > http://tinyurl.com/yhdej3j Excellent and extremely useful! A big thank you! :) A few questions: Could we get this for other projects? At Wikipedia Pa