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 stream from those high-volume reuse organisations (so that they’re financially subsidising Wikimedia, not the other way around).
In effect: it’s an insurance policy against the risks of potential future of declining ‘direct’ readership due to ‘intermediation’ by third parties. It’s not a complete solution, but plays a part.[2] [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/FAQ#How_does_this_relate_to_the_movement_strategy [2] https://openfuture.eu/blog/wikimedia-enterprise/ - Liam / Wittylama On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 12:39, Francesc Fort <taronjasatsu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 and clicking on the Wikipedia article. > > I mean, we talked a lot about this during Strategy. We just must find a > solution. > > F. > > Missatge de RonnieV <wikipe...@ronaldvelgersdijk.nl> del dia ds., 8 de > gen. 2022 a les 10:03: > >> 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 >> <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org]> >> The numbers at >> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|table|2-year|~total|monthly >> do show 63.8M edits in 2021 and only 61.5M in 2020. >> >> Do I misinterpret the graph? >> --- >> Met vriendelijke groet, >> >> RonnieV >> >> >> Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga schreef op 2022-01-07 18:51: >> >> There's another option: the 2020 pandemic lockdowns made a huge peak on >> views, so year on year, 2021 has worse results. >> >> 2022(e)ko urt. 7(a) 18:41 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Anders Wennersten >> <m...@anderswennersten.se>): >> >> When I look at statistics for mature wikipedias: en, de pl, nl they all >> show a decrease of views of 13-15% in last 12 months from a year ago, >> and number of active editors down 10- 20 % (with exception of en). >> >> Has this been analysed somewhere, are we losing our readers and >> contributors or is it mostly Google that access our info "smarter" not >> creating "views" >> >> Anders >> >> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org >> >> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org >> >> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org >> >> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pl.wikipedia.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/66FNJZYIDINNHVOBRBWQ7WCBD6EHUMLC/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/AIZF4GBG63E6PS3IQOOYLY6QUKZL526H/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/MZT6AWY7DN4NZQ72V2HID6TABKV4MZBZ/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/7INJRMVJE3YXJT3T3GFQL5VLGLNWFMSV/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- * Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]* Program Manager for *Enterprise, WikiCite,* and *Newcomer Experience* Wikimedia Foundation
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