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*$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com <http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com> http://about.me/suryaceg On 25 June 2012 16:34, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We usually measure a Wikipedia's growth in terms of page views, article > counts, active contributors etc., I felt that while all these parameters > can be good indicators, they somehow miss to reflect the exact value and > growth of a Wikipedia. > > For example, > > * One Wikipedia may have 50 active editors (doing more than 5 edits per > month) and 10 very active editors (doing more than 100 edits per month) > > But there are Wikipedias which have very very active editors who do more > than 1000 edits a month. One such Wikipedian can be equal to 200 active > editors ! > > Also, it calculates mere edits in article namespace. But, we have people > working in sandboxes and uploading full articles in one go. There are also > all kind of quality improving work done in Wikipedia namespace and other > projects. > > * One Wikipedia might have 1000 good quality articles while another may > have 10,000 average quality articles. > > * According to > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm , > Malayalam Wikipedia has only 2.9 M pave views per month and stands 4th in > Indic Wikipedias. But if you normalise for the target population of each > Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia might have the highest reach. > > I felt that measuring the actual human hours spent in building a Wikipedia > could be one useful indicator of growth. So, I asked the Tamil Wikipedia > community how many hours they spent for Tamil Wikipedia in one ideal week > in May 2012. The question was asked in June 2012 so everyone only gave an > approximate estimate. This included the > > We had 69 active editors and 20 very active editors for the month. > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm > > 14 people answered the question and they spent a total of 294 hours a > week. > > You can find the hours each of them spent in the table at > > http://tawp.in/r/37sn > > What is very striking is that many have spent around or more than 30 hours > a week which can be thought of as a full time job by itself. > > So, normalising the data, we can safely say that we spent at least 400+ > hours a week. If Tamil Wikipedia is an enterprise, then this equals to at > least 10 full time workers. If you can come up with the market price for > such high qualified talent that includes Professors, Teachers, Engineers > and students working on such a project, the value of work done in kind > crosses few lakh Indian Rupees every month. If you consider the value of > work done since the beginning, what is the value of our project in physical > terms? !! These were some of my thoughts when I went through this data ! > > Long live Wikipedia :) > > Ravi > > P.S. This study could have been more scientific, inclusive and planned to > have better accuracy. But the idea is to visualize our Wikipedia's growth > in terms of human hours spent even if this going to be a very approximate > study. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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