On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 26 July 2012 17:33, Martin Peeks <martin...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Charles Matthews >> <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >>> Deryck Chan, who was at the relevant meeting (I believe), expressed a >>> rather different view earlier in this thread. In brief, enWP is not >>> the centre of the WMF universe. >> >> >> To those outside the movement, and probably most of those within, it >> is, isn't it? >> > > The English Wikipedia is indeed the flagship, still. I believe the > Spanish Wikipedia gets the second-largest number of readers. But the > figure for editors given at Wikimania was 80,000 across all projects, > and the proportion of those active on the English Wikipedia in a > significant way would be about 5%, I think. So in terms of the > movement as a whole, enWP drama is not actually more than a cable > channel? > > Charles
Possibly worldwide, on aggregate, yes. Does the 80,000 represent "active" editors across all projects to the same standard of "activity"? However, more importantly for the broader issue (perhaps less so for the WCA side-line) is that for WMUK's intended (or actual/most relevant) audience - ie UK residents - enwp is by far and away the primary project. Martin _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
