Thanks everyone for a fantastic metrics meeting. I had two questions which I raised on IRC which didn't get a chance to be addressed. Briefly:
1) Is the rise in global south page views specifically to *enwiki*, or is it to local wikis? 2) Does the page view decrease in Latin America correspond to a decline in the eswiki project specifically? How do our numbers look if we look at projects rather than countries? Oliver shared one of the tools used to collate the graphs seen in the meeting, and I was able to determine, for example, that the rise in pageviews from Iran is almost entirely due to rises in Iranian access to enwiki. The growth in views of fawiki and other wikis from Iran is much more modest. It seems that our thinking about redirecting to localized content and the rise of mobile in the global south should be informed by these analytics. Are folks coming to enwiki because that's where the content and editors are? If so we might be doing readers a disservice by redirecting them to a local wiki without the content they are seeking. (Perhaps the Content Translation tool can help.) If our userbase in the global south is coming from mobile, than it is important to provide localized editing tools for mobile; less so if they are primarily English-speaking and can take advantage of the desktop editors of enwiki. Will investment in the Content Translation tool affect the balance between enwiki and local wiki pageviews going forward? I dug into the numbers a little bit, others who are interested can join me in a discussion over at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics Thanks for your attention... --scott _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
