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Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Search/Close the outdated WiViVi and reintegrate its key features into Wikimedia Stats/Proposal

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  • Problem: WiViVi was discontinued in 2018 after Erik Zachte retired as WMF's Data Analyst and some of its key features are not accessible anymore nor active on Wikimedia Stats. Without this tool, it is currently impossible to assess the outreach of a wiki linguistical community within a country.
  • Proposed solution: Integrate a browsing option that allows to search each wiki-specific pageviews as percentage to language for all worldwide countries. For example: In Spain 72% of the Wikipedia views are in Spanish, while 16% in English —but only 3.8% in Catalan or 0.4% in Basque (as of 2018; Asturian or Occitan are also indigenous languages in Spain but with such low % that cannot even access their proportional views). It is also important to be able to compare it with both native and total speakers, so that it can easily be seen if that wiki receives more or less views than expected by its speakers. The linguistical data can be easily taken by Wikidata, if available. For example: being able to check that only 15% of Wikipedia views in Andorra are in Catalan. Based on this value, if provided by Wikidata that Andorra has a population of 78K people, plus if provided by Wikidata that 40% have Catalan as their mother tongue, it can be seen that Catalan Wikipedia in Andorra is cleary underused (15% views in Catalan vs 40% native speakers of Catalan).
  • Who would benefit: All minoritized languages that really need to know which is the visit share (%) of their wikis as compared to the major or official language that is spoken within the borders of a country. This can help communities to plan their institutional collaborations and language use awareness.
  • More comments: Regional level would be desirable in the future. Percentages should be able to have a low cutoff or filter by specific language, in order to foresee very minoritized languages.
  • Phabricator tickets: phab:T257071, phab:T284294
  • Proposer: Xavi Dengra (MESSAGES) 19:08, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]