For those who don't know, the jump in active wikis in Wikivoyage is when we forked and adopted the Wikitravel project. Edits before 2013 were not done under our umbrella.
@SJ, there is no trend chart for 'active wikis' in 'Other projects', as those are not a homogeneous group. But for wiki specific trends in that group see https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm -----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Samuel Klein Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 17:55 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune! Interesting, thanks Erik. I like those views! The jump in Wikivoyage activity in 2013 is telling: public attention to projects has a tremendous difference in their ability to attract and keep dedicated long-term contributors. That's one of the only times we've had a set of big public news items and discussions about a sister project, in a decade. [It would be nice to see similar charts for commons/wikidata/wikispecies; those generally had less dramatic / more niche public attention, and mainly around their founding.] On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a high level Wikistats page on how our projects fared in terms > of active wikis. > https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ProjectTrendsActiveWikis.html > > Erik Zachte > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Alessandro Marchetti > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 13:01 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune! > > So we are talking about dead/small projects now? I work on many of > them and I think that what WMF is mainly rationalization. It's not > about just turning them off but merging, interacting or rebranding many > times. IMHO. > The problem are both the few user active on them which are proud and > they want to loose their "little space" and the snob attitude of users > on big wikipedias. Such a pity, there is plenty of room for > improvement once you go beyond the simplest black/white scenario. I > guess people just need time to think of the platform as an ecosystem, > where really few things needs to be removed, whilst it does require > flexibility to integrate and rethink them. I hope new generation of users > will help us in going that directions. > i am still wondering why we don't have a unified cross-language > platform for some of them yet. I don't care if in 2003 or 2004 someone > was unable to understand English... we had commons, wikidata, SUL... > seriously talk to newbies and get over it. I am not citing any > platform specifically here, just to avoid long mails defending the > status quo. Let's leave colonel Kurtz in the jungle, he will get tired one > day. > But about wikinews for example, I make interviews on itwikinews. Not > recently, but I have a long list of option when i have more time. I > link them to the articles, they looks fine as an integration. Also > they are a wonderful way to establish different connections. So sad > noone uses it, because they could. The news part has low activity, but > for example it still attracts new young users. One of the most > motivated young WMI members comes from the "poor" itwikinews. He's > very young yet he organized an event, specifically in an area where > wiki.activities were missing since a decade. Without the freedom of > wikinews, he would have needed much time to get the same level of > confidence. I don't think that itwikipedia users understand these > aspects, do they? So can you find me a replacement for that? And > please notice, i am not defending my little garden here, I just work > there sometimes and I see things that are useful to preserve. Can you do it > somehow, while closing it? That's what I need to know. > > > > > > Il Mercoledì 26 Aprile 2017 12:16, David Gerard > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > > On 26 April 2017 at 09:23, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Last time I remember we had a discussion¹ was September 2011 (!): > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/th > > re > > ad.html > > > Everyone interested in Wikified news should read the Wikinews threads > in that page. > > That's where the complaint that Wikinews is process-heavy comes from. > But it really isn't process-heavy at all, if you look at the actual > process. The blocker appears to have been insufficient or careless > reviewers. (Japan getting a new Prime Minister apparently not being > relevant to Wikinews because the sources weren't in English.) > > You'll also see numbers as to why it looks like a dead project from > any reasonable outside perspective. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 <(617)%20529-4266> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
