8. On the English Wikipedia:
Top 5,000 articles =
19% of all traffic
From Andrew West: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:5000 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-02-04/Special_report
10. English Wikipedia active editors. From Halfaker et al,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline
6K new editors per month in en:wp:
but they’re not staying
11. And some other languages…
• Spanish Wikipedia: 4,086
• Chinese Wikipedia: 2,188
• Hindi Wikipedia: 44
• Swahili Wikipedia: 9
• Javanese Wikipedia: 7
(Active editors/month in March 2014, from stats.wikimedia.org)
12. Getting together
• 40 chapters
• 1 thematic organization
• 11 usergroups
• (at least) 38 meetups globally in June 2014
• 1 big annual conference
• (and lots of smaller ones)
27. Our big questions
How to…
• Maintain a vibrant community
• Provide access for all
• Turn readers into editors
• Maintain and improve quality
• Ensure the future of the free and open
knowledge ecosystem
28. How we’ll get there
• Iterative strategy
• Many experiments
• Community project support
• Stable platforms
• Advocacy
• Better data
29. Imagine a world in which every single
human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge.
- Wikimedia’s vision statement
30. Thank you
I extend my heartfelt thanks
to the men and women who
tirelessly work on keeping Wikipedia
the wonderful website it is.
-- Donor comment, 2013 fundraiser