[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-08 Thread Željko Blaće
On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 1:47 AM James Heilman wrote: > Well the story around Osmosis has further details... They released their > first 300 or so vidoes under an open license and they were within Wikipedia > articles for a while. You can still see them on Commons here: > > https://commons.wikimedi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-08 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Hello,I wonder why a multicultural project, whose major strength is in the multilingual approach asks for a research to be on English."* The publication must be available in English."I'm currently researching about Wikimedia, and I'm doing it in Basque language. I hope to publish in a couple of yea

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-08 Thread RonnieV
Could there something be wrong with the presentation? The total number of edits at the English Wikipedia should have dropped 21,23% https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org [1] The numbers at https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|table|2-year|~total|mont

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-08 Thread Gereon Kalkuhl
Thank you, Leila. It's good to have an award like this and I always apreaciate the publications. We have to think about "publication must be available in English" though. On the top of my head I can think of very good non-English research that was published last year. Do we want to be global

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-08 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi/Bon dia As being said, I assume that the eligibility criteria for the award means that some reviews or research articles published by colleagues or by me in Catalan are considered second-class publications. If publishing about Wikimedia in our mother languages (most of them minorized at sev

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-08 Thread Gnangarra
I can understand the indeed for all the publications to be published in one common language, to enable easier comparison between works and to be able to share the work across more of the community so we can benefit from the work. Perhaps there can be some support provided by the WMF to enable tran

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-08 Thread Francesc Fort
The slow but steady decrease in readerships is known and has been identified for a long. An important niche of readership are quick answers for trivia (such as "what's the capital of X country") and there are tools (some of those, powered by Wikidata) working better than a classical google search a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-08 Thread Vi to
Just a couple of minutes ago I wanted to point out while chatting that two (shitty) singers work together because they work for the same major. A bunch of years ago I had to open some Google result to find such info, now I don't. Loss of readers is not bad in itself, it can be if there's a signifi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-08 Thread Liam Wyatt
Building on Francesc’s point: This is also why [what is now known as] ‘Wikimedia Enterprise’ appears twice in the Movement Strategy.[1] That is: to make sure that ‘downstream’ readers receive high quality Wikimedia knowledge (up to date, attributed…); and also to create a new diversified revenue st

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-08 Thread Gnangarra
Falling readers means less awareness of being able to edit, that means less contributors, and less donations. Over the last 10 years we've put a lot of effort and support into the basic contribution processes, but the contributions need to shift to more of what our new audiences are expecting from

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 19:48, Leila Zia wrote: > =Eligibility criteria= > * The publication must be available in English. I echo others' concerns about this. I'm equally concerned that, while WMF regard being in English as essential for one of their awards, they do not regard the use of an open

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-08 Thread Vi to
Yeah, although I think every user will, eventually, actually open our pages several times, although less frequently because of smarter search engines. Vito Il giorno sab 8 gen 2022 alle ore 13:20 Gnangarra ha scritto: > Falling readers means less awareness of being able to edit, that means > le

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-08 Thread Adam Sobieski
Brainstorming, interested stakeholders could advance Web standards to improve “snippets”, for example facilitating menus on “snippets”. With extensible menus on “snippets”, “snippets providers” could place hyperlinks, e.g., “view”, “edit”, and “discuss”, on each “snippet” provided for end-users

[Wikimedia-l] Today is the last day of application to be part of Wikimania 2022 organising team

2022-01-08 Thread Butch Bustria
Hi Everyone, Today is the last day of application to be part of Wikimania 2022 organising team! You can still catch up! Go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2022/Volunteer to know more and how to apply! Kind regards, Butch Bustria Wikimania SC On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 11:48 PM Butch

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-08 Thread Adam Sobieski
Introduction By establishing HTML metadata standards and defining new XML-based file formats, content providers, e.g., Wikipedia, could specify data, resources, and endpoints (e.g., XML-RPC endpoints) in webpage metadata for search engines, e.g., Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Google, to provide end-user