Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia Foundation/2016/Community consultation/Reach

Slowking4

Response by Slowking4 15:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC) muti ur rehman

Slowking4's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

this is combining six and one and four; need to go where the users are and improve their experience. global south engagement will be via mobile.

What is behind "two Global South countries"?

Response by NickK

It is unclear what WMF is planning to do in the two Global South countries. WMF already has a track record of opening offices in two Global South countries, and it would be quite honest to say that it was not a success:

• Brazil Program first annual report shows that hardly any targets were met. In 2013, project was transferred to a local organisation Ação Educativa which received an ambitious 550,000 USD grant (only WMDE and WMFR received higher grant APG grants) but unfortunately I fail to find any impact report consistent with APG standards.
• India Program was handed to a local organisation Centre for Internet and Society just a year after being launched. CIS is successful as an allied organisation and shows both good impact and good reporting as an APG grantee, but it does not seem to be a direct result of WMF work.

Thus the question is: what is WMF planning to do that will target only two Global South countries? It would be nice to know what lessons were learned from Brazil and India cases, as I might support some innovative and high-impact approaches but I am unlikely to support the same mistake with WMF offices in two more countries — NickK (talk) 16:23, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi @NickK: we are not thinking "boots on the ground" at all. Rather consider language coverage, awareness, community support. Let's say there are top languages spoken on Earth and top languages on the internet and top languages on Wikipedia. One way to think about this strategy is to focus on supporting translation and awareness programs in languages that are underrepresented on the web, yet many people need critical information in their native tongues. Because we cannot do it all, two regions is probably what we can take on, based on the interest of our communities. LilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 01:39, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Lila and thanks for the answer. I am glad that lessons were learned and that WMF is not planning any physical presence. However, language coverage and community support are two separate approaches (Approach Five in Knowledge and Approach Four in Communities) that are clearly defined and reachable. What is confusing is setting awareness in two countries as a separate goal, while this goal is reachable only with either local staff working on specific programmes (adapted to local languages and the local cultures) or local partners (either affiliates or allied organisations like CIS). Thus this point seems to be the vaguest one, is it possible to read a bit more about what WMF is planning to do about this? Thanks — NickK (talk) 10:56, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi @NickK: you make a good point, different approaches are possible. The reason we are asking these questions in a fairly abstract way and proposing possibilities is because we would like to hear some of your ideas/tactics about what you think may work or what is bound to fail. LilaTretikov (talk) 21:15, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Yger

Response by Yger 19:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Ygers svar på den centrala frågan

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I think Ygers is meaning priority six. Ellywa (talk) 17:21, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

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BethNaught

Response by BethNaught 19:41, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

BethNaught's response to the critical question

Support the creation of quality content in all languages (such as by improving translation tools) by ways determined in conjunction with the community, and actively promote Wikimedia projects. For example, Wikisource now has the originals of Anne Frank's Diary for any Dutch speaker to read for free. That's massive - if people realised that then interest would be much greater.

@BethNaught: this is a very important point and actually what we brainstormed internally. Wikimedia seems to be an iceberg of knowledge, yet only a fraction is visible "above the waterline" of Wikipedia. The question is how do we expose more? While ensuring it is still high quality, relevant knowledge. Discovery team is investigating some of those questions and given support for the idea and results showing that it increases engagement we could fund this strategy further. LilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 01:46, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

@LilaTretikov (WMF): Don't imagine I disapprove of everything the discovery team does. Introducting Elasticsearch, for example was a good idea. But holding several months of secret research funded by a large external grant is not acceptable. If they've got some ideas, why not share them? Feedback is essential to make sure the WMF doesn't go down yet another path putting it at loggerheads with the community, like Flow and Gather. Anyway, I was thinking more of a publicity drive. How many people have heard of Wikisource? The social media which are apparently an existential threat to the Wikimedia model does at least make publicity cheap - if my small circle of friends can get some inane in-joke trending on Twitter, surely Wikimedians can promote something meaningful. I disagree with the idea that WMF projects should invent radical new ways to feed knowledge to people (which is at any rate what the term "Knowledge Engine" connotes, and if you wish to make me believe it isn't such a thing you'll have to declassify it and the Knight Foundation grant agreement); if people know that we have something useful and unique they will come to us. BethNaught (talk) 19:28, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

BethNaught's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 2, 3 and 6 are most important. 3 and 6 because people are looking for information in different venues: now people can find simple information extracted from Wiki(p|m)edia on Google, we need to make the mobile reading experience, especially in the app, more attractive. However, improvements should be made in basic quality. Introducing gimmicks such as Gather/Collections is a terrible idea because they require effort from the community to police them while providing no benefit to the content of the projects.

With regard to approach 2, there are so many woolly arguments going on about the VisualEditor that we need proper data, ideally contracted by a neutral researching party. Also the WMF needs to increase its efforts to connect with the community even further. This strategy consultation will seem meaningless to many because the WMF Board has been having secret negotiations about a major shift in strategy with no community input.

DON'T do approach 5. Enough Wiki(m|p)edia content is pilfered already by the rest of the internet, so don't make it easier for outsiders to exploit the community's work in violation of the licensing terms. The recent 15.wikipedia.org fiasco shows that even the WMF can't reliably attribute the community, so who can?

Snipre

Response by Snipre 21:03, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Snipre à la question critique

Définir des groupes de contributeurs et leur proposer des contributions ciblées en fonction de leurs intérêts. Exemple: les communautés de fans de séries TV, d'univers,... Définir un ensemble de tâches classiques pour le développement de ces thèmes sur WP et contacter via les forums, les conventions, les fans en leur proposant de participer à WP. On peut imaginer la même chose pour les fans d'automobiles (via les salons automobile) et autres.

Define contributor groups and offer them targeted contribution suggestions according to their interests. Example: communities focused on TV series or broad themes... Define a set of common tasks for the development of these themes on WP and contact folks via forums, conventions, by offering to participate on WP. We can imagine the same idea for auto fans (via automobile salons) and others.

Top 2-3 de Snipre (ou partagez vos idées)

1, 2 et 3

Aller au domaine suivant (Communauté)

Julius Tominius

Response by Julius Tominius 01:44, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Julius Tominius's response to the critical question

All six at the same time. See below.

Julius Tominius's Wikimedia 2016

Merge Wikidata and Commons under the brand Wikimedia (wikimedia.org). Allow access to Item:, Property:, File:, Template:, Module:, User: from local Wikipedias, e.g. xyz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item:Q1234 and xyz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property:P1234 as one can access Commons files already today from within a Wikipedia (xyz.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Filesomething.jpg).

All Wikipedia language editions benefit, including those in languages from "two Global South countries". Create a mobile app "Wikimedia" that allows browsing and searching of files, items and properties.

MisterSanderson

Response by MisterSanderson 03:45, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

MisterSanderson's response to the critical question

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MisterSanderson's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach three: Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects.

Approach two: Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs.

Caoimhin

Response by Caoimhin 12:07, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

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I think approach two is the most important. Some of the external sites are pure parasites adding nothing and therefore probably won’t last long. But some of them will have ideas which add a small amount of additional value. And while they are free to use Wikipedia content, Wikipedia is free to learn from and adapt and adopt their ideas.

I think approach one is also important, especially encouraging Wikipedias in many small languages. This is something the external sites are less likely to copy, since there is not much profit in it, but there is a crisis in the world at the moment with the decline and extinction of languages, and the more Wikipedia can do to help them the better. One small technical thing which would help most small languages would be I think to change the wgCategoryCollation parameter default from “uppercase” to “uca-default”. The vast majority of languages use alphabets involving accented characters or non-Latin scripts, and while uca-default may not be perfect for all of them, it is for the majority, and in all cases it is vastly better than “uppercase”. It seems a bit mad that each language should have to find out about this and request it individually. Most of them do not realise why their category items with accented characters are being sorted in the wrong order.

WereSpielChequers

Response by WereSpielChequers

WereSpielChequers's - Mobile, screenspace and copyright

The WMF has an opportunity to solve several key problems by shifting from a tech led strategy to a licensing led one.

The rise of mobile is increasing our ratio of readers to editors, and increasing the pressure on the legalese, fundraising banners and above all the editing buttons that many designers and most readers regard as clutter, but clutter that is the lifeblood of this project.

The shift to smartphone currently seems as insuperable a problem as in 1890 the rising tonnage of horse shit was to the transport planners of London and other major cities. Simply extrapolating the recent trends of screen size and the drift from Laptops to smartphones shows an existential threat to Wikimedia; Extrapolating trends is a notoriously unreliable predictor of the future and if you look again at smartphones you see that screensize among smartphones has been growing - manufacturers are competing to make smartphones that can do more of the things that PCs can do, so we may be rescued by technology or simply find that the world reaches an equilibrium in which PCs and laptops coexist with smartphones.

To a person with a hammer every problem is a nail, the WMF's hammer is technology, and simply treated as a technology problem then the Wikimedia movement looks like it will step out of the present and into the past. But there are other tools available to us, and the best tool for an existential threat of major tech players wanting to treat CC-BY-SA contributions as CC0, is diplomacy backed by lawyers.

Up to now the strategy of the WMF has been to leave copyright enforcement to the copyright holders, and for content other than a few things such as logos that has meant the community. That the WMF cares less about copyright than the community has been a contributor to many clashes between the WMF and the community, MediaWiki Viewer and the Indian Education Program being just two examples, kudos to the WMF for prompt response re the licensing problems with Wikipedia's 15th birthday site - but those problems did occur.

We can't stop major reusers of our data from stripping out our fundraising banners and edit boxes. But we can require that they comply with the legalese and provide attribution etc.

A strategic change by the Foundation from seeing intellectual property rights as someone else's problem, to seeing it as the lever to keep the movement thriving would help solve three problems:

1. The easiest way to provide attribution online involves linking back to WMF projects, and those links are our lifeblood in terms of pageviews, new donors and new editors.
2. Different volunteers have different motivations, but one of the most common ones is to have one's work respected and used. Use without attribution makes it more difficult for Wikimedians to even know their work is in use; It may even be demotivating to see your work used without attribution by some corporate behemoth. Whether volunteers are motivated or demotivated can significantly effect volunteer retention.
3. Increased emphasis by the WMF on getting licensing right, and a strategy of promoting Wikimedia by encouraging major reusers to comply with licensing would help bridge the gap between the WMF and the community.

WereSpielChequers (talk) 10:59, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, WereSpielChequers - thoughtful comments as usual, with which I largely agree. GeoffBrigham (WMF) (talk) 01:08, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Alphabets and internationalisation

We still have plenty of opportunities for internationalisation, take Georgian as an example, lots of people in Georgia don't have Georgian script keyboards and instead write Georgian in the Latin script or even Cyrillic. If the software detected this and enabled people to input Georgian letters using other keyboards would open the Georgian Wikipedia to many more editors. There are probably other languages with similar issues, it should be possible to detect programmatically wikis with such opportunities to improve reach. WereSpielChequers (talk) 14:33, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Sänger

Response by Sänger 15:03, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Sänger auf die Hauptfrage

Ansatz sechs, und hierbei insbesondere die leichte Erreichbarkeit der jeweiligen Diskussionsseiten, damit die Interaktivität, nicht der reine Konsum, immer deutlich wird

Approach six, and here in particular the easy accessibility of the respective talk pages, so that the interactivity, not the pure consumption, is always obvious

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Sänger

Ansatz vier, insbesondere auch durch entsprechende Personalpolitik in WMF und Board, d.h. das Board muss bei den Appointees deutlich diversifiziert werden.

Ansatz zwei, z.B. auch durch Verbesserung der Übersetzungstools, das hier vorhandene war eher suboptimal.

Approach four, in particular by appropriate personnel policy in the WMF and Board, i.e. the board's Appointees need to be significantly diversified

Approach two, for example, also by improving the translation tools, the existing here was rather suboptimal.

Ellywa

Response by Ellywa 17:07, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Ellywa's response to the critical question

It is difficult to comment or choose a priority, as I do not know the cause of declining traffic. First you should do some research (perhaps this was done already, I did not look around to be honest).

Ellywa's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

To visitors, I think Wikipedia is getting boring, because the interface is always the same. I didn't ask around, but perhaps a more modern look would help. (Actually the look was oldfashioned when I did my first edits in 2002...) In addition, always these banners on top, a lot of links etc. discourage readers. I think if one sees a Wikipedia link in Google on top, several people might select the next best.

Taketa

Response by Taketa 19:39, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Taketa's response to the critical question

Make editing Wikimedia something to be proud of. Create editing weeks or months about regions.

Taketa's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Make editing Wikimedia something to be proud of. Improve appreciation of individual online volunteers. Currently many Wikimedians I talk to, do not share with their friends, family and collegues that they edit Wikipedia. This needs to change. We need to focus on making editing something to be proud of. I think we can accomplish this in the next five years and make our project healthy again.
  • Appreciation for individual online volunteers. We currently focus on people who are in boards, or organise global projects. This needs to change. We have so many awsome volunteers. People who write articles. People who upload images or entire books. People who help with wikifying. People who help in helpdesks. Spead the word and get them appreciation. I am working on getting a knighthood for a Dutch online volunteer for 15 years of volunteerwork. In the coming years, dozens will get an honour or knighthood. I hope it will positively change the way Wikimedians are viewed by the general public. The writingweek about North Brabant is held this week in cooperation with the King's Commissioner (governor) of the province of North Brabant. He will personally thank a Dutch volunteer, and if hopefully the Germans join next week, also a German volunteer. Work in different languages, with several initiative per language, over the year we can have thousands of volunteers get a personal thank you by a major, governor or member of governement. The Erasmusprice was awarded to Wikipedia last November and handed out by the king to three representatives of Wikipedia. Over 400 Wikimedia volunteers meet with the members of the royal family. All these people proudly and publicly advocate Wikimedia. The concurring media attention will get us new volunteers. Also ourselves we should be thanking our own editors. Last year the German Wikipedia started the Wiki Owls, to thank individual editors on behalf of the community. The community nominates people they appreciate and they receive an award. This has been an enormous succes. Together with Romaine last Saturday we awarded the Dutch Wiki Owls award in front of an audience of 85 people, showing our appreciation for these awsome online volunteers. We can make being a Wikimedian something everyone around us thinks is awsome. Make it something we say when we apply for a job, or when we talk about our day.
  • Appreciation by the scientific community. Currently in the Netherlands we cooperate with 3 Universities where professors give bachelors and master honours courses on Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales was awarded an honorary PhD from a Dutch University. We cooperate with museums and libraries. I believe the global GLAM project is vital to our efforts.
  • Appreciation by the general public via positive media attention. Last Friday at our 15 years aniversary over a dozen Dutch and Flemish Wikimedians were on the tv, radio and in newspapers talking about their work. We need more media attention like this. We need more of these awsome Wikimedians who publicly talk about our project. That is the way to reach people, by talking to them.
• Create editing weeks or months about regions, in cooperation with the local government. Writing weeks and months about regions have the future. The recent Dutch Writing Week about Denmark nearly doubled our production of new articles for two weeks. Not only did we write over 800 articles, but the activity also caused other people to write about topics not related to the writing week. Writing month Asia is a great example of how we can do this globally. Topics like sports or religion are less suited for a writing week because they will only be interesting for people who are interested in those topics. But a region has everything. It has sports, is has religion, it has culture and companies. Everone can join. Writing together is fun. That is why it works, and that is why we need to do it more. Moreover, the region will want us to write about them. Get the government involved. Get the media involved. And we can reach the general public, and get new volunteers.

Thanks @Taketa: for your thoughts! I'd like to respond to your comments about how to improve awareness and appreciation of the projects in the press and general public. I'm curious about your point "Make Wikipedia editing something to be proud of." In your opinion and experience, why do you think that editors do not share that they edit Wikipedia with their family, friends, or colleagues? The Communications team is interested in finding ways to communicate more clearly about the value and importance of editing the Wikimedia projects. We would be interested in knowing more about the challenges people currently face in having these conversations.

On the subject of improving positive media attention, the WMF Communications team is interested in strengthening our ability to increase coverage of the Wikimedia projects. We have been focused first on 1) developing resources for skills sharing on communications for the movement and 2) building closer working relationships with affiliates to improve coordination and resource sharing. Do you have additional thoughts on how we can support individual online volunteers? For example, we could experiment with media skills development, or experiment with becoming more systematic in collecting strong stories from individual volunteers. Thank you! Katherine (WMF) (talk) 01:49, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

How can we support individual online volunteers: I have seen it often that we work with great organisations. For example the Dutch Wikimedia works with the National Archives, the National Library and with the Rijksmuseum. Great. But I think we are not using our cooperation in the way we could be using it. We are not using it to motivate our own editors and we are not using it to get maximum media attention. How can we motivate editors using our cooperation? By giving editors appreciation. Make an editing day or week online, where Wikimedians help the instituation. And make an award for the Wikimedian that does it best or select a random person from the people who helped. An award costs only a piece of paper and 15 minutes time of the local director. Yet it publicly says "we the National Archive thank this online volunteer". It is nothing to the National Archive. But for that one Wikimedian, it means something. And to the press, it is also interesting. If the National Archive of the US thanks an editor from India for example. The Indian editor will be proud. He will not hide the fact that the US National Archive gave him an award. Indian media will be all over it. And Wikimedia grows. Do this for all major institutes. Have governments thank Wikimedians. Museums, universities, libraries. Thanking our volunteers is the best way to motivate volunteers AND to reach the media. We don't work with 1 institute, or 1 government in 1 country. We work with dozen in hundreds of countries. Make yearly awards for every single one, and you have thousands of these proud Wikimedians. A thousand editors from India who have been thanked. That is how to motivate editors from India, or anywhere in the world. So to summarize, what I suggest you should be doing is getting third parties to thank individual editors, and teach organisers of cooperations how to use cooperations in a way that thanks individual editors.

On your more general question: The obvious reason to think of why we do not go public with our editing is that we are on the internet. People want their privacy. Many Wikipedians at conventions do not want their names revealed or their picture taken. Privacy is ofcourse the reason, but I don't think it is just fear of vandals coming to their front door. It is deeper. People fear their family finding out, or their friends, or their work, their collegues or their future job. When I talk to Wikimedians on IRC and at conventions they generally do not tell their peers about what they do. It is a secret, not only from the world, but from their loved ones. So it is not just about privacy. In an interview with the stewards in November 2014 [1] almost noone wanted to talk about being a steward. If our own people don't want to talk about it. If people prefer to take pseudonyms instead of coming forward and stating "I wrote that article", then we should change this. Editing Wikimedia projects is something great. These are good people, working to provide free information to the world. However Wikimedia is not yet seen as full, I think we are seen as amateurs (which we indeed are), which is still frowned upon by the scientific community. Editing Wikipedia is a little bit tainted. This might also be because often when we get media attention it is to blackgoat some celebrity who edited their own page, and mark them as bad people. Editing is risky and needs to be done in private it seems. However, the reason is not important. What is important is changing it. Wikimedia the biggest single provider of medical information in the world. Yet doctors don't edit Wikimedia. In the Netherlands we have maybe a dozen physicians (that I know of) that edit. Out of over 50.000. Why... It should be fantastic for their career to edit the biggest provider of medical information. Yet they don't see it that way. We need to show them how much they can do with Wikimedia. Another example, even paid staff of Wikimedia do not edit Wikimedia. Even people who donate, and believe in our work, do not edit. I believe that providing more appreciation, by the general population, to our editors is the best way to retain editors, get mouth to mouth advertisement and get more editors. If you are personally thanked by for example your minister of culture, than it proves to everyone that you are awesome. If you are knighted for your work it proves to everyone your work is awesome. If a professor is the first person to teach you how to edit Wikimedia then maybe Wikimedia must be awesome. And we need put this in the media. Let everyone know. Let people see Wikimedians being thanked. Not one time, but hundreds of times. If you want a good future for your child. Get them to edit Wikimedia. You want to help the world as a scientist, edit Wikimedia. You want to further your career, edit Wikimedia. That is how it should be, and I am working to get there. And I hope the Foundation will also focus on this topic.

Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 06:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I love your thoughts, Taketa. I agree and I think this is largely a human undertaking, not to be confused with things we can do with technology. But technology can also play a supporting role. WikiCredit is a system that aims to show people how much impact they have on the movement. We can implement such a scoring system in a way that people keep their privacy and share it only if they want, but they have it there, as a silent, massive, THANK YOU. See, for example, the way that stack overflow does it, which I got chills from when I saw it the first time: http://stackoverflow.com/users/180664/milimetric (The box labeled "Impact").Milimetric (WMF) (talk)

Smiley.toerist

Response by Smiley.toerist 19:51, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Smiley.toerist's response to the critical question

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Smiley.toerist's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Better coordination and integration with other communities such as the Openstreetmap. Geografic data can be combined on some subjects. It should be natural that Openstreetmap volunteers work in Wikipedia and vice-versa.Smiley.toerist (talk) 19:51, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

NaBUru38

Response by NaBUru38 21:27, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

NaBUru38's response to the critical question

"Traffic to Wikimedia projects has been decreasing. This is a severe challenge, because fewer people will explore related content, have the chance to become contributors, or donate."

I disagree with the statement. People will explore related content if what they find makes them want more. Moreover, redistributors may try very different user interfaces to encourage exploration, as we must.

We need more contributors, but increasing traffic won't help. The read to contributor conversion rate is very low, because of issues unrelated to traffic.

NaBUru38's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach 2 is a must. We must understand readers to better serve them.

To encourage readers to explore related content, we must improve the user interface. We need tools to show related articles. We need a better search menu, which allows to filter by category with a few clicks. We need to improve portals, for example with a tool to autogenerate article summaries. We need to interconnect the projects, so a person reading an article can easily find Commons files, Wikinews stories, etc.

Müdigkeit

Response by Müdigkeit 12:19, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Müdigkeit's response to the critical question

Free reuse is very important. But that doesn't mean that we should do nothing to encourage users to come to Wikipedia. No, the reverse is true, others may and should use their content, but that doesn't mean we should encourage simple copying with attribution when it is more preferable that those users go to Wikipedia( so that these things can be corrected, and that those who read don't blindly trust something that has bad sourcing)

Müdigkeit's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach 2, because the readers are the ones we write for, and knowing their motives is essential Approach 3, because this drains possible contributors away.

Bluerasberry

Response by Bluerasberry 12:51, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Bluerasberry's response to the critical question

The best way to encourage traffic to come to Wikimedia projects is to secure the good reputation and esteem of Wikipedia. Developing the marketing strategy was not one of the recommended strategic approaches, and I feel that this is an oversight because the power of Wikimedia projects is mostly in the good feelings that people have for them and not based in higher-minded research or something limited by an unmet need for more tool development.

@Bluerasberry: this is a really good point. I work on the communications team at the WMF. The good will we received via the Wikipedia 15 birthday celebration and the support we receive daily on Facebook especially suggests a desire to take part by readers. --JElder (WMF) (talk) 21:31, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: It seems like there's been a historical ambivalence around marketing for the projects, which is something I'd like to understand better. Marketing is on the rise at non-profit organizations, which are learning to use marketing techniques to better understand their audiences, share compelling messages, inspire people to join the mission, and raise awareness about their issues. I'd be interested in better understanding community concerns around marketing, so we could think about what approaches would - or wouldn't be - right for the movement. Katherine (WMF) (talk) 21:23, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Katherine (WMF) Have we met? Are you at NYU? Your page suggests that you might be. I am in New York. We could talk. 63.116.201.2 22:43, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Bluerasberry's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Among the listed potential strategic approaches, I favor "approach four" with India being one of the countries and either a Spanish speaking country or Brazil being the other. I want outreach to thee countries because I think the outreach itself could be effective in local regions, but more than that, I feel that now is the time to start grooming community leadership in underrepresented locations so that in a few years when Wikipedia is more mature it will have a strong pool of community voices to guide decisions. Right now, community participation and leadership from outside the Western developed world is lacking. If that leadership and participation was at least more socially welcomed, then community contributors would find ways to advance all of these other strategic approaches in time. Among the strategic approaches proposed, only personal relationships and cultural exchange cannot be rushed. With money and advances in technology, the other developments are certain to happen in time, but global expansion and mutual understanding is not at all certain to happen. Expanding into two Global South countries would also force the hand of the Wikimedia Foundation to reconsider its marketing strategies, branding, and reputation, which I feel are in poor shape. A major barrier to the expansion of Wikipedia is its poor reputation, and to some extent, the Wikimedia Foundation's own branding includes calls for pity that do not match the power of Wikimedia projects. I want a fair assessment made of Wikipedia's use among readers - not contributors - because readers are the majority stakeholders and the pool from which Wikipedia editors come. Better outreach to readers globally will bring more contributors. Traffic reports cannot be taken for granted as support or a lack of problem; readers need marketing to understand Wikipedia more deeply, and to actually talk critically about it instead of the current common practice of both using it and dismissing it as less than good.

@Bluerasberry: more good points. On our Facebook page, most of our 5 million fans are in the global south. We have more Facebook fans in India (1.9 million) than anywhere else. The feedback we get there is invaluable, and our efforts there bring great returns. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by JElder (WMF) (talk)

SSneg

Response by SSneg 13:14, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

SSneg's response to the critical question

We know for a fact that more people use internet each day. We have to understand where they look for information if not on Wikipedia. Maybe they choose IMDB to look up celebrities because it has photos and fixed their mobile view recently. Maybe Google search is so good at presenting snippets on geographic locations, country population and economic facts right in the search results that people do not need to go into Wikipedia articles for that any more. And maybe it is a good thing (for the users, ultimately). But what if 3rd party websites copy Wikipedia information without attribution and present it in a nicer layout, stealing our users and potential contributors? This has to be confronted from legal standpoint, since it is WMF job to protect our work from abuse, and also should prompt Wikipedia to catch up in terms of visual presentation.

First of all, WMF should analyse the visitor dynamics and test some hypotheses. Did the visitor count decrease equally in developed countries and developing countries? English vs other languages? Returning vs new? Frequent vs infrequent visitors? Most importantly, compare pop culture articles (movies, celebrities, sports) vs hard science articles. And of course, compare across different Wiki projects, because their specific reasons for decline or growth could be unrelated.

In other words, before deciding on strategies to fix the water level in our ship's hold, let's understand what part of it is leaking, specifically.

SSneg's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 1, 3, 4 – yes, improve language coverage (by working closely with local wikipedias), improve wikipedia article depth and quality, understand what users look for (but not just to increase numbers), make sure users still get to Wikipedia from 3rd party platforms.

Approach 2 is dangerous because if you simply look for ways to increase numbers, you may find out that most people come for info on pop culture and decide to support this behaviour primarily. Chasing pure visitor numbers is not a goal by itself. Wikipedia and WMF have a vision and should focus on that, not on just driving more traffic in.

Approach 6 - how many people use Wikipedia apps vs using mobile layout? I think the difference is staggering. This is because installing an app requires some effort. some encouragement and in some cases even some skills. Many users, especially in developing countries, only use the default apps on their phones. And Google spends millions to encourange them to Google stuff and then read about it in Chrome (on Wikipedia!). So investing into mobile apps provides low return and ties up a lot of engineering resources that can be used elsewhere. Also, mobile phone tech is developing and today almost anything can be done in browser, no need for native apps, especially for reading text with pictures (such as Wiki articles), not gaming in 3D. This resources should be allocated to improving mobile web layout, at the very least.

I cannot comment on Approach 5, but I feel like APIs are also technically sophisticated and require engineering resources while the return on that is not clear.

I also suggest exploring the mechanics of information sharing from Wikipedia into social networks. If a single person tweets a fun fact from Wiki to their friends, dozens will go to Wikipedia to read it. Lots of volunteers help select those "Did you know..." facts for the front page, you can at least leverage their effort.

Building on the above point, the most shareable information is pictures and graphs. Make sure that any image or graph from Wikipedia can be shared on Facebook or Twitter. We are living in an increasingly social and increasingly visual world, yet Wikipedia is still text-based closed-loop database of knowledge.

@SSneg: I certainly agree here, as the social media manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. We do see that people love to share what they have learned. We try to model that on our accounts. Sharing Commons images is a priority: We have more than tripled the media views on Twitter in the past three months. The Did You Know facts are great fodder we try to share regularly. --JElder (WMF) (talk) 21:47, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Mattflaschen-WMF

Response by Mattflaschen-WMF 21:25, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Mattflaschen-WMF's response to the critical question

The best approach is to encourage people to consider visiting the sites, but also allow writing content and supporting the Foundation and movement from anywhere. This means, for example:

• Use microbranding to encourage people seeing reused content to also visit the main site (approach three).
• Work with reusers to promote editing, either by linking back to the main site's editor or in place (using the edit/discussion APIs).
• Ask (but don't require) reusers to show the possibility of donating, even potentially directly without visiting the main site.

We also need to remember that visiting the site is not an option for some people. It is not realistic currently to expect "every single human being" to have internet access, but some of those without it still have access to downloaded copies of Wikipedia and other projects, e.g. at school. This is still reach.

The Communities pillar also reinforces this one. People come to the sites for quality content. More editors will lead to more content, and more content will lead to more readers (both on the main site, and on reusers' sites).

Mattflaschen-WMF's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach two (Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects)
• Approach three (Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects). In particular, branding and working with them to promote editing and donating
• Approach six (Improve Wikipedia mobile apps to increase use). Mobile is dominant in many parts of the world, so mobile web and mobile apps are critical for both readers and editors.

Milimetric (WMF)

Response by Milimetric (WMF) 21:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Milimetric (WMF)'s response to the critical question

We serve our current users brilliantly and we shouldn't care if some of them want to experience our content in other ways. But we should make sure third parties understand how this affects us and are willing to either compensate us financially or with other creative ways to solve that problem. We need to take it upon ourselves to recruit editors, relying on some tiny percentage of readers to magically jump a thousand hurdles and become editors has always seemed to me like a weird basket to put all our eggs in. We need to look beyond our self-drawn box. We are proud of our status as one of the largest sites in the world but we're in fact only reaching a single digit percentage of the world's population. We should fix that, we totally can.

Milimetric (WMF)'s top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I support approaches 4, 5, and my own idea. That is, make sure third parties that re-package our content want to see the content creation part of our community thrive. So they need to give us money we lose through lack of banner impressions and help us find the editors we lose through lack of readers. Resting on that will allow us to focus on 4 and 5.

Qgil-WMF

Response by Qgil-WMF 21:31, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Qgil-WMF's response to the critical question

There is an assumption here that needs to be challenged: more reuse of Wikimedia content doesn't necessarily imply less visits to our sites, neither impedes more contributions made from external sources. Maybe we are getting less users because we haven't really joined any of the big user trends / expectations of the past decade (social, mobile, microcontributions, result-oriented crowdfunding...), our UI is less usable and attractive than other sites crowdsourcing content, etc. And while our APIs allow others to reuse our content, they also allow them to channel and recycle contributions, but this is an area where we have done no promotion at all.

Another point to consider is that there are external sources and external sources. If an external source is fully aligned with our mission (other independent not-for-profit organizations working on free culture and free software), then we should not really be deterred by the fact that they are not Wikimedia. Their mission is our mission. A different story are for-profit organizations with a mission to make rich their shareholders and with competition and monopoly as their main strategic tool.--Qgil-WMF (talk) 21:31, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Qgil-WMF's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces).
2. Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects.
3. Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs.

Tfinc (WMF)

Response by Tfinc-WMF 21:31, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Tfinc-WMF's response to the critical question

Our drop in page traffic has steadily increased as third parties have re-used our content. This it itself is good and should be encouraged as our core mission is to share in the sum of all human knowledge. Our stated problems focuses on how to increase our reach/traffic/etc which in itself is a focus on how to increase how many people benefit from Wikipedia and its sibling projects. Alongside this, we've seen great success from our GLAM projects and they have steadily increased the amount of content available on our projects. These projects have long requested tools that could make their workflows easier and attract new volunteers but have yet to receive much help. Instead I'd like to see more partnerships form with these institutions and for them to get the tech help they've requested for a long time.

Tfinc (WMF)'s top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach #1 and #2 are most important to me alongside:

1. Improve discoverability of not just Wikipedia but all Wikimedia project content
2. Improve third party search of our sibling sites

We have no shortage of amazing content. Fewer people are *choosing* to come to our project because our experience is not as compelling as the third parties that use our data.

Trevor Parscal (WMF)

Response by Trevor Parscal (WMF) 21:48, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Trevor Parscal (WMF)'s response to the critical question

Syndication is only a threat when the direct-delivery experience is inferior. Because we've been wildly successful, we've become lazy. We must earn traffic, not just expect it. We must provide greater value to our readers by providing tools to our editors that support making content clearer, accessible and richer (beyond text and simple images). We must also make it possible to access that content easily and inexpensively throughout the world.

Trevor Parscal (WMF)'s top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach 1 is the most important, as we have failed to do this so far and we are now seeing our impact diminish as the world changes around us. Approach 2 is critical to knowing how to succeed with approach 1. Finally, approach 4 is important, or we risk increasing value for only the subset of users that are easiest to serve or most similar to the natural biases of WMF staff.

Dario (WMF)

Response by Dario (WMF) 21:52, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Dario (WMF)'s response to the critical question

I am answering this question as a 10-year wikimedian as well as a WMF staffer who–since joining the Foundation–has been watching closely how content reuse by major platforms affects our ability to pursue our mission. Content distribution and reuse is a given and something we should embrace: it's built into Wikimedia's DNA and licensing structure, it is inevitable – whether we like it or not – and desirable. What is less inevitable and less desirable is allowing 3rd parties to "accidentally" intermediate Wikimedia's visitors, contributors, donors by designing interfaces that break the connection between content, on the one hand, and its creators and original sources on the other. Also: traffic per se is not the goal, the question should be about how to drive back human attention to the source. With these caveats, the best way to encourage attention to return to the site is by designing content distribution strategies that preserve provenance and do not intermediate Wikimedia projects as sources (see some of my thoughts on this topic from a recent presentation). In my opinion this is the biggest, least studied and riskiest challenge the movement should be focusing on today. While editing trends or content quality are well within the control of Wikimedia's actors (editors, chapters, wikiproject participants, WMF), reach and traffic are not. The whole media industry is looking at content distribution as the biggest potential threat and opportunity that may change the internet as we know it (I encourage you to read the excellent Content Wars by John Herrman, and this post in particular. I'd be happy to talk to anyone who's excited or worried about these issues.--Dario (WMF) (talk) 21:52, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Dario (WMF)'s top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Definitely a combination of 3 and 5, we should actively encourage syndication/distribution but also make it graceful and design it in such a way to be aligned with Wikimedia's mission. With over half of our visits (i.e. sessions with an identifiable referrer) originating from Google properties and an unspecified but arguably extremely large number of visitors consuming Wikimedia contents outside of Wikimedia properties (which I estimate to be at least one order of magnitude larger than Wikimedia's traffic / unique visitors figures), any gain or loss caused by syndication is likely to overshadow any gain obtained via other strategies.

Traffic is a means, not an end

Response by Adamw

As @NaBUru38, @SSneg and others have pointed out, traffic is just an indicator of a particular type of success. It has become the industry standard because most of the internet is powered by advertising and sales revenue, which are roughly proportional to traffic. It's not even clear that our metric should be to reach *more* people, and it especially isn't clear that driving more traffic to our site will improve anything about our reach. For example, a single internet terminal in a school might look like a small amount of traffic, and only one "unique", but would reach many more people than a large quantity of traffic from a single cell phone. Adamw (talk) 21:58, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Khorn (WMF)

Response by Khorn (WMF) 21:59, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Khorn (WMF)'s response to the critical question

First of all: I'm not sure how numbers 1, 2, and 6 are not all necessary steps toward the same end. In fact, 2 seems to be a prerequisite of a (1+6) combo, and I'm not sure why we'd sign up to do 6 unless we knew it served 1, via 2.

To rephrase for human beings, the following seems reasonable to me: First, we understand how and why our users come to us, and why they stay or leave. Then, with that understanding, we adapt our products to serve the needs of actual human beings that are currently being underserved. If an identifiable segment of humans would respond best to improved mobile apps (and/or the other platforms), it seems to me that the need would shake out here.

Secondly: 3 and 5 seem to me, to have largely the same relationship. I would like to also note, that I suspect if any individual or group is going to take the time to build something fancy that reuses our content, they probably don't want to cause the wikipedia community ecosystem to fold: They would lose all their own work. I'd like to see us try to give content reusers incentives to send people back to us in constructive ways. Maybe mention in the API documentation that there are ways they could be good citizens by sending back potential editors, or adding a donation button to their projects.

Khorn (WMF)'s top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

As stated above: 2 & (1+6).

Guillaume (WMF) / guillom

Response by Guillaume (WMF) / guillom 22:34, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Guillaume (WMF)'s response to the critical question

The question "How do we get more traffic?" naturally breaks down into two more specific questions:

• Why do people come to our sites, and how can we encourage that behavior?
• Why do people not come to our sites, and how can we encourage them to come?

We have done some initial research about reader motivation, and there is also more coming soon. This kind of research is critical in order to address the current and future needs of our users. This is to say that Approach 1 (improvement to meet the needs) is doomed unless it is continually informed by Approach 2 (research of those needs).

The other issue (Why do people not come to our sites) can itself be broken down into possible causes:

• People aren't coming because they don't know about our sites (Awareness issue).
  • A corollary: People aren't coming because they don't think about coming to our sites (also an Awareness issue).
• People aren't coming because they don't need to come to our sites (Pipeline issue).
• People aren't coming because they don't want to come to our sites (Trust/Brand issue).
• People are coming but not staying on our sites (Bounce/Retention issue).

Those call for different solutions. For example, Approach Four addresses the Awareness issue; Approach Three addresses the Pipeline issue; Approach One addresses the Bounce/Retention and Trust/Brand issues. In order to prioritize the approaches, we must see where those approaches are coming from, and the issue(s) they intend to solve.

We also need to think about the user funnel. For example, if we choose to dedicate a lot of resources to raising awareness, for example in emerging communities (Approach Four), that will all be for naught if those users then Bounce.

Other issues, like the Pipeline issue, may not actually be a problem at all (from a reader perspective). Our mission is to disseminate knowledge; if readers find that knowledge elsewhere (whether it originally came from our sites or not), we fulfilled our mission. Of course, it means we're losing potential contributors, but that's a different issue.

Guillaume (WMF)'s top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Based on the analysis above, I currently believe the following priorities make the most sense:

1. Approach Two (Research the current and future needs of our users) is the first step. We can't do any meaningful improvement unless we know which levers to pull to achieve what effect.
2. Approach One (Improve the UX) is the logical step that follows. There's a lot that can go under that umbrella, but the main goal is to address the Bounce/Retention issue.
3. Approach Seven: Address the Awareness and Pipeline issues by making it trivial to accidentally land on Wikimedia sites. Basically, the goal is to become more present on the social web by piggy-backing on other social services and networks. In practice, this could mean providing tools to quote a Wikipedia paragraph on Facebook, or embed a text+image from a specific article in your personal blog, or share a curriculum composed of bits of Wikipedia articles on Khan Academy, etc. (This may be a variation of Approach Five, I'm not sure.) We could spend millions in awareness campaigns in specific countries, and not be as successful in raising awareness as if we had just let people trivially reuse, link to, and embed our content.

I also have many more thoughts about brand, awareness, etc. (notably, consolidating our projects, an old dream of mine) but I won't go into that right now.

Epìdosis

Response by Epìdosis 23:04, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Epìdosis's response to the critical question

I think our projects should adapt themselves in their shape (surely deploying new content formats) to what users want to find, but at the same time they should maintain their original essence, because this is what made and still makes our huge success.

Epìdosis's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I certainly approve all the six approaches. The ones I prefer are (in this order) 2, 1 and 6.

Sicherlich

Response by Sicherlich 01:03, 21 January 2016 (UTC) removed my answers. See here. I don't have the feeling of good intentions of WMF ...Sicherlich ^Post 19:19, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

ArielGlenn

Response by ArielGlenn 01:18, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

ArielGlenn's response to the critical question

Note that while I am a WMF staffer, I am not writing this in that role but as a once active and now mostly lurking volunteer.

I think the question is based on a false premise, that traffic moving away from the WMF-maintained sites and spreading out across the Internet is detrimental. Rather, sharing, reuse and remixing are a crucial part of our mission. We do not have the means to provide our content in all forms that the public might want, nor with all the features they might find useful. Nor should we take on that burden; rather, we should encourage third parties to explore reuse in creative ways, so that we can focus on what we do well, i.e. providing an editing platform and a primary source of content to be shared.

Having said that, I understand the concern about retaining or attracting new contributors. That is indeed at the core of our mission. Let's figure out how to do that without linking it to the number of readers that visit the site. How can we make editing even easier technically than it is today? How can we make it socially easier and more attractive? How can we make it easier for someone to get over the psychological barrier of the first edit? How can we encourage third party reusers of our content to solicit editors on our behalf? Are we only interested in the flagship project, Wikipedia in the major languages? If the barrier to editor entry is too high on those sites because the "easy" content has already been written, should we be attracting editors to the sister projects in order to further our mission of gathering knowledge?

I know many of these questions have been discussed in the past, both by the community and among WMF staff. Let's refresh those discussions and build on them.

Also, let's figure out why "Wikipedia" gives me a spelling error in Firefox! WTF folks, 15 years later you'd think someone would have added it to the dictionary.

ArielGlenn's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Unrelated to the question, I support all promotion of reuse, and so I support the development and improvement of APIs that would make content access by third parties easier (approach 5). Related to this, I support the development or improvement of ways to access our content in bulk (e.g. content downloads) for reuse. Coincidentally, I maintain the dumps...

ArielGlenn's postscript

A question: are we aggressively running banners for this strategy discussion? If not, we should be. This is a great opportunity to get suggestions from less-involved editors but also from readers, let's make it happen!

Jane023

Response by Jane023 17:50, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Jane023's response to the critical question

...1,4, and six

Jane023's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

...set up a template for a local meetup and encourage wikipedians to meet up in real life. The teaser can be an edit-a-thon or a combined tour of a facility of some kind, or a demonstration of some clever task that can be applied to an editor's activity somehow. More local meetups help bring people in. We see this again and again in NL, but the travel distances in other countries are much greater.

Jo-Jo Eumerus

Response by Jo-Jo Eumerus 08:54, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Jo-Jo Eumerus's response to the critical question

I do think that a loss of traffic is a consequence of the expansion of the importance of the Internet; nowadays there are a number of online websites and features (Google's "knowledge graph", for example) that compete with Wikimedia projects for traffic and users. Many of these are indirectly dependent on Wikimedia projects in some way; not necessarily by straight-up copying of text but by using our projects as sources. I do think this is not necessarily a bad thing, the spread of information being after all a main scope of the projects. One way to keep readers here is by continuously improving on existing material.

As for improving this trend, one thing I would like to see is better ways to cooperate between projects (interproject) - sometimes nowadays it feels like each project, 'pedia or 'tionary are independent bubbles that do not work with each other. Commons and Wikidata are some of the exceptions, but having more things being shared may improve the quality of out works; some of the projects worked on by the Community Wishlist Survey (if I remember the name correctly) such as global user talk pages and watchlists are already on the way.

A second aspect which is being mentioned by some of the other responders to this request is that working on Wikimedia projects needs to be something to be proud of, to have some appreciation. Part of the reasons I started editing enwiki is because it has some mechanisms to feature and present the work done by its editors, for example the en:Wikipedia:Good articles process. In this sense it is also important that external reusers of our material to properly attribute the origin site at least, so that a person who spend perhaps a significant amount of their time at writing an article can know their work had some effect. This may justify having a more stringent enforcement of our copyright terms, since they aren't really all that restrictive. Also, I still have the feeling that working on our projects is widely considered to be a thing of a selected group and not for the public at large, although I can't say I have a good solution to this.

Jo-Jo Eumerus's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1 and 2. My impression is that the reasons why people edit Wikimedia projects or stick around are not particularly well known or exploited by developers. With regards to project 5, if "reusing" means "copying" I feel this isn't really the most common method by which Wikimedia content is reused - and even when it is, it is frequently in violation of copyright license terms by not providing attribution or inappropriately tightening the licensing. Also, internationalizing is something that can be improved - while reliable machine translation between most or even many languages here is still a thing of the future, having more information especially in smaller or more secluded (--> languages whose speakers aren't usually familiar with a major language) languages - the issues mentioned with translation tools by others and particular problems such as e.g WereSpielChequers's points about keyboards are things that need to be worked on.

Aubrey

Response by Aubrey 10:58, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Aubrey's response to the critical question

I really don't know about Wikipedia. But I can say that Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary are ripe of low-hanging fruits: dedicated teams could develop better interfaces for the projects, making them much more easily readable for users, and much more easy to contribute to.

Aubrey's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. N°1.
2. N°6.
3. N°2.

98.176.54.138

Response by 98.176.54.138 15:35, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

98.176.54.138's response to the critical question

Instead of badgering users of wikipedia for money create: Revenue Projects that provide sites where people and companies and other organizations can, for a fee, list themselves and their data that's protected. People or entities can review the data and if anyone is putting up incorrect, self-serving data submit corrections and their sources which a third party, non-wiki group can evaluate and either correct the page or submit the correction data to the "page owner" to update. To avoid crushing established online business you could raise funds to buy out the those businesses and incorporate their pages into your projects.

98.176.54.138's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Instead of badgering users of wikipedia for money create: wiki biz list wiki whos who Wiki (other proprietary lists) in which people, companies, and whatever groups I haven't thought of are charged a small fee to list themselves and their information. Not a facebook or LinkedIn but a list where the user certifies the information is true and is fact focused not social content focused.

74.65.39.235

Response by 74.65.39.235 16:08, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

74.65.39.235's response to the critical question

Be available on the most popular technologies.

74.65.39.235's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 1, 5, & 6 address the needs.

Amgine

Response by Amgine 17:19, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Amgine's response to the critical question

Stop being the Wikipedia Foundation and focus support on less-developed projects, projects with scope for more people to build and feel 'ownership'/'accomplishment' of free knowledge content.

Audience interest and participation is greatest when the average member of it may usefully contribute. en.Wikipedia, appropriately, has developed beyond that point. Other projects, such as Wikisource, have huge room for audience participation, while others, such as Wikibooks, now have greater efficiency of impact (one successful textbook project affects a larger number of students, etc.)

Amgine's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 5, 3, and 2 may have some effect, in order of likelihood imo. But if your goal is to increase traffic (as opposed to actually making knowledge available to the largest possible audience) then engage in marketing in your largest markets. I would suggest something like blocking all IPs related to [some hot-button thing - e.g. all high schools, because "parents don't want their students plagiarizing Wikipedia articles as homework"]. This is sure to create drama and news coverage and therefore traffic. You may want to map out your artificial scandal creation; there are firms which can help you do this.

Spinster

Response by Spinster 19:07, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Spinster's response to the critical question

Do we know well enough what causes the decline in traffic? I have a hunch that Google's Knowledge Graph might have a lot to do with it. People already might find the info they need there.

We depend so much on Google. Either we have to work with them closely (yes, I'm following the board controversy a bit...) or we have to hope for / push for / ... a viable impactful alternative 'ethical' search engine that becomes more popular than Google. Yeah right ;-p

Redesign Wikipedia. It looks like something that got beamed to us from the 18th Century.

Different users have different information requirements/needs at different times. Sometimes you want to check a small fact. Sometimes you want to read a summary about a topic. Sometimes you want to find an image for your presentation. Sometimes you'd like to know what kind of bird you're looking at. We have the free information to answer to all these needs, but we think (I'm exaggerating a bit) that a Wikipedia article is THE thing we need to offer the world. I think we have so much to win if we think of innovative and diverse ways to serve our free knowledge, especially if we dare think outside the 'boxes' of our projects.

Images are incredibly popular and important on the web. Let's not forget that. Wikimedia Commons is, IMO, our most underestimated project and our most promising 'gold nugget'. Imagine a world in which Wikimedia Commons would be an innovative, 21st-century media repository with structured metadata and an awesome interface, where people can easily find any free media they need and receive clear information and simple tools with which to correctly re-use and attribute it.

Spinster's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

My top 3 of the existing suggestions would be (1 is best)

1. Approach one, adapt user experience to needs
2. Approach two, understand needs of our users
3. Improve the API - and probably even innovate with it. Make sure people can use it as easily as possible, that it works as smoothly and reliably as possible, and that it brings together the most valuable info possible. What's Google's Knowledge Graph API doing? How many people are watching and using that? We must be better.

In addition I would say, maybe more importantly: define a common strategy and guidelines according to which our community will work together with parties like Google and other major web players on whom our traffic depends.

Let's keep doing remarkable and new things, like Wikidata, and make sure they're as awesome as possible, so that the world keeps noticing us.

Finell

Response by Finell 01:13, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Finell's response to the critical question

...write here…

Finell's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I favor approaches one and two. In fact, I do not see how anyone can implement one without using two—that is, "adapting user experience to their needs" requires research into users' needs.

Sebastian Wallroth

Response by Sebastian Wallroth 14:11, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Sebastian Wallroth auf die Hauptfrage

Eins. Denn es nutzt nichts, Benutzer von anderen Seiten zu uns zu ziehen, wenn sie auf unseren Seiten ein schlechteres Benutzungserlebnnis haben; wenn sie Funktionen vermissen und die Inhalte nicht in der Form vorliegen, die die Benutzer bevorzugen.

One. It's useless to pull users from other sites to us, if they find a worse use experience here; if they miss functions and if they don't find content in a format, they like most.

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Sebastian Wallroth

Zwei. Man muss seine Benutzer kennen, um auf ihre Bedürfnisse eingehen zu können. Die Interessen von Autoren und Benutzern können weit auseinander liegen.

Drei. Wenn man Drittanbieter mit einfach zu nutzenden APIs an sich bindet, werden sie nicht nach Alternativen suchen und mittel- und langfristig uns als Inhaltenanbieter bevorzugen und unterstützen. Sie werden sogar selber helfen, die API-Doku zu verbessern. Sie werden ihren Benutzern stolz zeigen, woher die Inhalte stammen, weil der Name Wikipedia für Qualität bürgt. Sie werden Benutzer auf unsere Seiten leiten, um neue Inhalte zu produzieren, wenn ihnen der Nutzen klar wird.

Two. You've got to know your users to entertain his needs. The interests of authors and users could be far apart.

Three. If you connect third party suppliers with easy-to-use APIs, they won't look for alternatives, and in the short and medium time range will prefer and support us as content providers. They would even help themself to get the APIs better documented. They would show their users with pride where the content comes from, because the name Wikipedia is trusted for its quality. They will lead users to our sites, to generate new content, once the value is clear to them.

Fil211

Response by Fil211 17:29, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Fil211 — ответ на насущные вопросы

Самым главным видится снижение порога вхождения, то есть специализированных знаний продвинутого компьютерного пользователя, а также максимальная демократизация доступных тематик. Лучше написать все обо всем чем кое-что о кое-чем--Fil211 (talk) 17:29, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

The most important is seen lowering the threshold of entry, that is the specialized knowledge of advanced computer user, as well as the democratization of the maximum available themes. It is better to write everything about everything than something about something

Fil211 — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Самыми лучшими являются 1 и 2 подходы. Нужно привлечь новых участников и облегчить жизнь тем кто уже является частью семьи--Fil211 (talk) 17:29, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

The best are 1 and 2 approaches. It is necessary to attract new members and make life easier for those who are already part of the family

Marcok

Response by Marcok 09:15, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Marcok's response to the critical question

• Approach 6, expecially in Africa.

Marcok's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach 1
• Approach 4, not only in 2 nations but in the whole Africa.

Chris troutman

Response by Chris troutman 12:10, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Chris troutman's response to the critical question

It is popularly believed that the number one reason for the dropoff in page visits is Google's knowledge graph. Wikipedia already knows this because Google bought its consent for same. If Wikipedia really just wants to burden visitors with misleading requests for donations then I'd prefer that Wikipedia simply advertise on other websites.

Chris troutman's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach Six is the most critical as many new visitors to Wikipedia are skipping desktops and laptops entirely and surf the web via mobile devices exclusively. Wikipedia needs to improve the app in order to retain these visitors, not to mention enabling current editors to do more editing from mobile. Approach two is important as continuing to survey site visitors would help us understand how well we're meeting their needs. Approach three is a joke. Beyond how Google is stealing our hard work, numerous other sites are mirroring our content without the legally-required acknowledgement that Wikipedia is the source. WMF would do well to start suing those websites hosting our content and running banner ads.

Tearow

Response by Tearow 15:19, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Tearow à la question critique

Approche 1

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Approche 2 Approche 5

Mr. Zabej

Response by Mr. Zabej

• Approach One
• Approach Four

--Mr. Zabej (talk) 17:09, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Ziko

Response by Ziko 17:54, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Ziko's response to the critical question

In discussions about 'collaborative content production' and the 'digital commons', traditionally the problem of 'free riders' was raised. Wikipedians often ignore this problem, as Wikipedia is the number one reference work anyway, and as ideologically 'free riding' is part of the open content concept.

Re-using Wikipedia content (in clones, in third party apps or other ways) can indeed be a problem. Readers feel less attached to Wikipedia as a brand of quality and as a useful website if they can consume the content elsewhere in a way that suits more to their needs (e.g., with a nice user interface).

The negative consequences:

• Readers learn less about Wikipedia, its backgrounds and its principles
• Therefore, readers are less likely to contribute and donate
• and readers will relate less to Wikipedia the website, e.g. bloggers will link less to Wikipedia the website. As a consequence, the Wikipedia pages will be less prominent in Google results.

These are problems that appeared on the horizon long time ago. But we Wikipedians don't feel them as problems, because we have not much contact with readers. Also, we seem to be more interested in content (in the topics) than in readers. And up to now, the donations came in, and Wikipedia is still the first or second website in most Google searches. But this can dramatically change within a very short time, so that it can be too late to change something.

Another ideological problem is the idea that every reader should be a contributor. Most readers don't want to contriute, and if you should contribute the same as we do is our only message to them, we don't have much to say or offer. We should learn to appreciate people who are different from the 'ideal Wikipedian' and treat them and their needs appropriately.

Therefore it is urgent to gain more insight in

• what readers expect from Wikipedia, both from the content and the website as such
• how to build a better relationship with the readers
• how to make readers come directly to Wikipedia instead of Googling

One suggestion: different kind of people should have different user interfaces. Wikipedia should offer

• an interface for readers who are not logged-in, attractive and useful for those who want to be no more than casual readers
• an interface for readers who wish to be more involved and have more functionalities. We should encourage those readers to register, to give them reasons to do so. As registered readers, they should see an interface with useful features such as special bookmarks and news about the Wikimedia movement, e.g. meetings for the general public in the vicinity. The goal is to create a sense of belonging and pride for our 'power readers'.
• an interface for new and casual contributors, people who just want to correct a typ in an article but not get invovled with meta work, categories or tables. As a consequence, those new and casual contributors cannot create new articles, upload images or do other things that need more experience.
• an interface for experienced contributors - which would be more or less what we have now.

The idea is to bind readers to our website, give them suitable benefits, and allow them to 'grow into Wikipedia' in distinct steps.

Ziko's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach Two as basis to learn more about the readers. Approach Three would be complemantary. The goal is then, Approach One, to bind readers to the website Wikipedia.

I wouldn't go for Approach Four because we need more general insight and repair Wikipedia in general first. But possibly one could experiment with a new interface system in one peticular Wikipedia language version, from the 'global south' or not. Approach Five seems to be counterproductive. Approach Six can be implemented later after we know more about attracting and keeping readers.

Sujalajus

Response by Sujalajus 22:03, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Sujalajus auf die Hauptfrage

Approach one

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Sujalajus

Approach four

Balajijagadesh

Response by Balajijagadesh 11:08, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Balajijagadesh's response to the critical question

• Making the editing of the content possible in wikipedia mobile app itself. Many small mistakes (such as spelling mistake, formatting) can be corrected in mobile itself easily.
• An app to upload pictures to commons directly from mobile
• The Wiktionary app is no longer supported in google playstore. There are many apps for dictionary based on wiktionary content. But many are filled with advertisements and malwares. The wiktionary app for all the languages similar to wikipedia also to be developed.

Hi @Balajijagadesh:. It is possible to edit content (in wikitext-mode) in the mobile apps, by clicking on the "pencil" icon.

I believe the old Commons Mobile Apps have recently been forked and are now maintained by volunteer developers, see commons:Commons:Mobile app for links.

Thanks for the feedback about the old (mostly volunteer-developed) Wiktionary app.

Hope that helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:21, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Z653z

Response by Z653z 11:10, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Z653z à la question critique

Approche 2

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...répondez ici...

COMMUNIST YAŞAR

Güzel bir site sizi beğeniyorum...

Geolina163

Response by Geolina163 11:25, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Geolina163 auf die Hauptfrage

1+2

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...hier schreiben...

Gereon K.

Response by Gereon K. 11:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Gereon K.'s response to the critical question

If it is true that less and lesse people visit Wikimedia projects it is essential to find out why this is the case. My first thought is the infobox that Google shows in each search. When you have the brief digest of a Wikipedia article already on Google most people might feel that there is no need to visit Wikipedia, because they have all qick information they require straight away. Now google is a commercial platform with unknown (for most people) intent. We have to rethink this angle.

Gereon K.'s top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Most important in my humble opinion: Approach three.

AlexChirkin

Response by AlexChirkin 11:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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AlexChirkin — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Считаю, что из предложенных подходов первый и второй полезными.

Также считаю, что будет крайне полезно улучшить объём и качество представленной информации - так как это именно то, зачем люди обращаются. Конкретно, в английской викитеке работали над автоматической закачкой документов их Word (не знаю, чем закончилось). А теперь поставьте себя, опытного участника (хоть попробуйте), на место какого-нибудь самоотверженного научного сотрудника, решившего пожертвовать авторскими гонорарами, и предоставить свои труды в общественное достояние с помощью викитеки. Да он раньше в психушку попадёт, прежде чем закачает, отредактирует, вычитает (о понятности для новичков рекомендаций по загрузке документов мы пока говорить не будем). И что в итоге? Новых документов - много не будет (гарантирую как человек, редко загружающий статьи, и потому каждый раз читающий рекомендации по загрузке...), и как это в перспективе скажется на актуальности и полезности содержания викитеки - догадаться нетрудно.

AlexChirkin (talk) 11:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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I believe that the proposed first and second approach are useful.

I also think that it would be extremely useful to improve the volume and quality of proposed information - because that's exactly what people seek. Specifically, the English Wikisource worked on the automatic uploading of Word documents (I do not know the outcome). Now put yourself, an experienced party (just try), in the place of a selfless scientific collaborator who has decided to donate royalties, and provide his works into the public domain via Wikisource. Yes, he would rather fall into a mental breakdown than upload, edit, make deductions (to say nothing here of the understandability of advice to beginners on loading documents). And the result? There won't be many new articles (I guarantee this as a man rarely loading articles, because [or and thus] every time reading recommendations loading...), and how this in the long term will affect the relevance and usefulness of the content of Wikisource is not hard to guess.

Cyelif

Response by Cyelif 11:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hans50

Response by Hans50 12:29, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Hans50 auf die Hauptfrage

...Ansatz 1...

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Hans50

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First Light

Response by First Light 12:34, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

First Light's response to the critical question

If the goal of Wikimedia content is to share knowledge freely with the world, then does it really matter whether people get that knowledge at a Wikimedia website or elsewhere?

First Light's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 3 and 6

88.130.143.70

Response by 88.130.143.70 12:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

88.130.143.70's response to the critical question

Approach four

88.130.143.70's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

...write here…

Ανώνυμος Βικιπαιδιστής

Response by Ανώνυμος Βικιπαιδιστής 12:51, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Ανώνυμος Βικιπαιδιστής's response to the critical question

Approach four

Ανώνυμος Βικιπαιδιστής's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Fund and run Wikimedia schools such as the one in Athens, for recruiting more people.

DJSupreme23

Response by DJSupreme23 13:06, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

DJSupreme23's response to the critical question

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Agrees:

1. 3 - Best. Get WP more visible.

DISAGREES:

1. 1 - it will be a serious detriment if the W-platform starts changing its UI constantly. Language etc. needs are already well covered.

COMMENTS:

1. 2 - already well known.

1. 4 - will come on its own with the general WP awareness in public.

1. 5 and 6 are the same, and they are already there or in the pipe, so why mention them?

Yngvadottir

Response by Yngvadottir 13:08, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Yngvadottir's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Choice 1: Approach three. The championing of infoboxes and other metadata-emitting widgets on pages has led directly to potential readers bypassing WMF sites, has discouraged creation of clear and nuanced content, and has contributed to the template overload that makes pages harder to load; the privileging of Wikidata has also lured traffic away from user-facing WMF sites and presents a serious challenge to preservation of accuracy.
Choice 2: Approach six. Globally, mobile access is on the ascendant; WMF's mobile app is very poor, in particular for editing, and openness to editing increases user engagement, counters systemic bias, and is a core part of our mission.
Choice 3: Approach seven. Terminate all special agreements with Google and other specific reusers. More generally, radically prune the WMF, whose strategizing has been nothing but harmful to the mission. Our strength lies in voluntary collaboration; the imposition of a class of paid strategizers has devalued this and is giving the movement a deserved reputation for feather-bedding and for killing the golden goose. Example: Approach four is condescending and more of the same cluelessness that produced the education program to have Indian students edit just because they were Indians, rather than because they deserve to edit just like anyone else. We are still dealing with the bad edits from the resultant unguided special course programs.

Rehman

Response by Rehman 13:15, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Rehman's response to the critical question

(1). Most people, like my own brother, believes the site is so matured now, that they there is nothing they can help with in their basic wiki knowledge. We need to get the word out, on how exactly people can help in the various places on our site (not just on how to write articles). (2). We need to push things like Wikipedia Zero to the next level. Free access to the site not just by mobile connections, but also for desktop users; evenually also for the full version of the site. (3). Get a share/email button (not just for Facebook). Make non-Wikimedians more comfortable. Like button? (4). Please, improve on the chat groups (IRC). wikipedia-en and sometimes wikimedia-commons is always severely clogged with the same bunch of folks talking about every nonsense they please. It needs to be monitored. (5). Get the existing infrastructure/environment improved so that experienced people don't leave. Fix the RFA. Improve transwiki features like importing files. How about an on-site chat feature? Online-or-offline feature? Give simple tokens of appreciation to the hard working folks (pens, notebooks, postcards) - not based on edit count. There are many more ways if you look deeper...

Rehman's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach One
• Approach Three
• Approach Six
• Also, see my points above, mainly (1) and (2).

DCDuring

Response by DCDuring 13:36, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

DCDuring's response to the critical question

• Act more like a responsible business.

DCDuring's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach 2 - the anti-business, lunatic-fringe privacy culture is destructive.
• Approach 3
• Approach 7: A, Getting those who reuse project content to pay a multiple of cost for something, eg, customization.

  B, Requiring a linkback in such content.

Kertraon

Response by Kertraon 13:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Kertraon à la question critique

• Généraliser des résumés plus systématiquement accessibles à tous, par un vocabulaire simple, et une apparence plus attractive avec plusieurs illustrations donnant accès à des contenus de différents niveaux sur des supports (média) variés. Sur chaque page, reléguer plus bas le menu latéral verbeux, ou le rendre plus attractif par des illustrations ou icônes pour chaque item ou ensemble de choix. Cordialement, Kertraon (talk) 13:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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More generalized summaries systematically accessible to all, with a simple vocabulary, and a more attractive appearance with several illustrations giving access to different levels of content on media (media) varied. On each page, relegate the verbose side menu lower down, or make it more attractive by illustrations or icons for each item or set of choices.

Top 2-3 de Kertraon (ou partagez vos idées)

• Approche 6: Améliorer l'application mobile Wikipédia pour en augmenter l'utilisation.
• Approche 1: Accroître la fréquence d'utilisation et le nombre d'utilisateur en adaptant l'expérience utilisateur aux besoins (cela peut se traduire par des formats de contenu additionnels, rendre davantage de contenu Wikimedia plus facile à trouver, augmenter la couverture linguistique, etc.).

Cordialement, Kertraon (talk) 13:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Иван Абатуров

Response by Иван Абатуров 13:45, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Иван Абатуров Проводить политические акции против узаконенных злоупотреблений с авторскими правами

Чтобы стать более востребованной Викимедия должна публиковать свежие материалы. Однако сделать это мешает дикая ситуация с гиперзащитой авторских прав. По сути Викимедия не может опубликовать ни одного произведения младше 70 лет. Потому читатель идет на пиратский сайт, чтобы посмотреть там эти произведения. Таким образом чрезмерная защита авторских прав тормозит развитие прогресса. Надо Викимедии заняться борьбой за сокращения срок защиты авторских прав. Например, раз в год проводить информационные акции, собирать подписи к правительствам и международным организациям за сокращения срока защиты авторских прав на фото и видео хотя бы до 10 лет после смерти автора, но не более 40 лет с момента создания. Даже международные конвенции иногда отменяют. 13:45, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Ivan Abaturov - conduct political action against the institutionalized abuse of copyright

To become more marketable Wikimedia should publish fresh material. However, to do this creates a wild situation with hyper-defended copyrights. In fact, Wikimedia can not publish a single work less than 70 years old. Thus the reader goes to a pirate site to see these works there. Thus, excessive copyright protection inhibits the advance of progress. Wikimedia needs to wage a struggle for the reduction of the term of copyright protection. For example, once a year carrying out information campaigns to collect signatures to governments and international organizations for the reduction of the term of protection of copyright in photos and video at least until 10 years after the author's death, but no more than 40 years since creation. Even international conventions are sometimes overturned.

Thank you for your comments. I agree with you that the excessive term of copyright is problematic. When feasible we do try to participate in efforts to reduce copyright barriers, but unfortunately that is not easily done unless a policy proposal is underway. That said, we do have budget and people on the legal team that focus on policy issues, including excessive copyright hurdles. Excellent suggestion. GeoffBrigham (WMF) (talk) 01:12, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Anarchyboy

Response by Anarchyboy 13:58, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Anarchyboy's response to the critical question

I'm perhaps optimistic here - I think reduced wikimedia site traffic suggests that re-used content is being hosted somewhere helpful, and there is less need to abandon the hosting site for the source. I have encountered content from wikipedia in much more useful places of late. For the most part, I've also known (of course, I may not know the opposite) that the information/picture/whathaveyou came from wikipedia, and could have gone on, should it have been useful.

Anarchyboy's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I like response 3, exploring how to encourage users of external content to seek out wikimedia source sites. Wikipedia specifically, and the mediawiki sites generally, are good resources to have at hand, once you know they're there - modifying user experience I'm generally dubious about, if it's focused on the mythical new user. Something as unintrusive as making a template for external content use that incorporates the URL, or even a clickable link, to get to the source, maybe?

Response 6 might be a good idea. I do know people use their phones for things they would have previously used a computer to do. I am something of a primitive when it comes to the small-screen interface, but do not have any trouble navigating wikipedia from there. More sophisticated users might have more thoughts. Worth asking, anyway.

JoeHebda

Response by JoeHebda 14:00, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

JoeHebda's response to the critical question

Focus on outreach to Education: specifically university, college, medical, scientific, etc. websites to include links to wikipedia. Contact and provide publishers with a one-page Summary of Wikipedia for them to include in their content: books, their website, their downloadable, tablets, readers, etc.

JoeHebda's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach six: Improve Wikipedia mobile apps to increase use.

Approach seven: Monthly (or more frequent) news releases and/or press conferences to all the major news media outlets. Include statistics (which they love tracking numbers), What's happening at Wikipedia, and perhaps a summary of The Signpost.

(jubi-net)

Response by (jubi-net) 14:12, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von (jubi-net)

"öffentliche Meinung(en)" erfassen und darstellen

gather and portray "public opinion"

Devopam

Response by Devopam 14:17, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Devopam's response to the critical question

We need to understand how world is changing in terms of usage of information. This is a transformation process and in my opinion , Wiki hasn't really been keen on exploring and reinventing.

Devopam's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach three is my best bet.

Wereldburger758

Response by Wereldburger758 14:28, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Wereldburger758's response to the critical question

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If you want to reach people, then people must know that you are there. And I mean not just the Wikipedia itself. But also the community. The investor Branson knows this: if you want attention, you go loud.

But the most important thing the Wikimedia Foundation can do it to make working on the Wiki's worthwhile. My work on Wikipedia articles and Wikimedia Commons images is at best ignored in the labor market as having no relevance or frowned upon. IT HAS NO VALUE. I know that it requires a lot of skills to work on the Wikipedia's to do things well, but, again, this is not recognized anywhere. Once that changes you will have a MASSIVE surge in contributors. For an example how this can be done: go to the site Lynda.com where people can follow computer courses. Once you have completed a course, you can put a banner (a certificate) on your LinkedIn page to demonstrate that you have done a course with Lynda.com.

This is only one way the work can be recognized. There must be others.

Ynanchu alp bilge

Response by Ynanchu alp bilge 14:43, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Ynanchu alp bilge — ответ на насущные вопросы

наиболее оптимальным считаю подход первый и подход третий.

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I think the most optimal approach are the first and third.

Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick

Response by Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick 14:52, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick à la question critique

Simple, il faut que les articles de Wikipédia soient plus attrayants et donc plus complets que ce que l'on peut trouver par ailleurs, ça suppose donc qu'il faut travailler un maximum sur les articles. Comme le nombre de contributeurs ne va pas augmenter, il faut que ces contributeurs aient moins de travail à faire, et donc passer massivement par Wikidata avec des modèles communs aux différentes versions linguistiques : quand on entre une donnée sur une version linguistique de Wikipédia, elle n'est pas immédiatement et facilement réutilisable par les autres versions linguistiques, alors que si cette donnée est entrée sur Wikidata, elle est potentiellement réutilisable par toutes les autres versions linguistiques, à condition que celles-ci aient leurs modèles adaptés. De cette manière, on a moins de réutilisation externe du contenu (qui n'est d'ailleurs plus possible sans autorisation lorsqu'un tiers a violé la licence) mais plus de lecteurs, qui pour une infime partie d'entre eux seront peut-être un jour de gros contributeurs.

Voilà le sens de mon message : augmenter le nombre des lecteurs et leur régularité par un contenu de meilleure qualité et plus complet/mis à jour obtenu par une collaboration des contributeurs peu importe leur langue maternelle, ce qui permet aux contributeurs-rédacteurs d'employer la majeure partie de leurs temps à rédiger/traduire au lieu de passer leur temps sur la mise en forme des données.

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Simple, it is necessary that Wikipedia articles are more attractive and thus more comprehensive than what can be found otherwise, it presupposes that we must work up on items. As the number of contributors will not increase, it is necessary that these contributors have less work to do, and therefore transferred massively by Wikidata with common models for different language versions: when you enter a given in a language version of Wikipedia it is not immediately and easily reusable by other language versions, so that if this data is entered on Wikidata, it is potentially reusable by all the other language versions, provided that they have adapted their models. In this way there is less external content reuse (which is also possible when a third party without authorization violated the license) but more readers, which for a small part of them may be one day be big contributors.

This is the meaning of my message: increase the number of players and their regularity by a better and more complete content / updated obtained through collaboration contributors regardless of their native language, which allows contributors to employ editors most of their time writing / translating instead of spending their time on data formatting.

Top 2-3 de Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick (ou partagez vos idées)

• Approche 2 : effectivement, savoir ce que les lecteurs cherchent est intéressant pour savoir sur quoi on doit travailler.
• Approche 6 : la majorité des recherches se font sur un téléphone portable, le format doit être optimisé. Et comme nous nous devons toujours d'avoir une longueur d'avance, il faudrait développer une recherche vocale : OK Wikipédia ! .....[nom de l'article].....
• Approche 7 : ça rejoint ce que je dis un peu plus haut, ça ne sert à rien de faire le même travail chacun dans sa langue, c'est une énorme perte de temps. Je suggère donc de passer massivement à Wikidata et que des spécialistes en Lua soient recrutés pour mettre au point des modèles communs aux différentes langues. À l'avenir, certains contributeurs se répartiront le travail et c'est ça qui nous permettra de nous développer.

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* Approach 2: actually, to know what readers are looking for is interesting to know what we have to work.

* Approach 6: the majority of searches are made on a mobile phone, the format must be optimized. And as we always have to have a head start, we should develop a voice search: OK Wikipedia! ..... [item name] .....

* Approach 7: it goes back to what I said a little earlier, it is useless to make everyone the same work in their language, it's a huge waste of time. I suggest to spend massively Wikidata and specialists in Lua are recruited to develop common models to different languages. In the future, some contributors will split the job and that is what will allow us to grow.

BRPever

Response by BRPever 14:56, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

BRPever's response to the critical question

...Specially mobile aaps are just for reading wikipedia project and editing them. The app should be made for all the wikimedia projects and it should be easily available with the system of uploading image and easy edit with improved gadget in it. Gadget like twinkle should be made available in mobile aaps.

BRPever's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

...User should be made aware creation of templates, modules, links and process of writing in wikimedia projects. They should be supported by community members and encouraged to participate in project.

Miniapolis

Response by Miniapolis 14:58, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Miniapolis's response to the critical question

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Miniapolis's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches one, two and three.

Davidbena

Response by Davidbena 15:08, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Davidbena's response to the critical question

...To improve "Reach" and to enhance public awareness about Wikimedia projects there should be created easy-to-use redirect links to Wikimedia projects in related Wikipedia articles.

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TeriEmbrey

Response by TeriEmbrey 15:19, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

TeriEmbrey's response to the critical question

I wonder how much the question of declining reach is related to people's perceptions of Wikipedia and what kind of answers can be found within it. I would like to see more attention paid to answering that question.

TeriEmbrey's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I think the approaches "Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects." and "Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces)" should be key to how Wikipedia moves forward in 2016. Additionally, I would encourage the Foundation to add dedicated staff members and other resources to support Libraries and other GLAM institutions in partnering with Wikipedia/Wikimedia initiatives.

ONUnicorn

Response by ONUnicorn 15:37, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Perhaps in addition to/instead of donation drives asking for financial donations, there should be drives to attract new editors based on the donation drives. Banners that say things like, "Wikipedia is written and maintained by people like you. Click here to start editing." The Click here could link to (on Wikipedia) either tutorials for new users, or categories like those of articles needing basic copyediting. Likewise on commons the banner could say "Commons organizes photographs and art work contributed by people like you. Click here to upload your work." And so forth for the various projects. That would go a long way to encourage casual readers to become contributors.

As far as getting people to visit the project to begin with, quality of content is key. We need to make sure that we have higher quality content than our competitors. This includes our competitors who reuse our content. Keeping the sites free of annoying ads and malware is one important way the foundation does that. Another key is to encourage new contributors to join, and existing contributors to stay.

Thanks for your comments. One interesting note: We run a survey on the Thank You page that our donor's see after they make a donation. We ask them if they would like to receive information about becoming a Wikipedia editor. Every year, about 40,000 donors say they would and give us their email address. We have given the list to the editing team and I believe they plan to run some experiments around this. I think you instinct on this is right. I know we have a lot of donors who want to become editors . . . the same may be true of readers in general. --Lgruwell-WMF (talk) 00:54, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach two and six.

Johnbwaterhole

Response by Johnbwaterhole 15:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Add kiosks in many cities and towns throughout the world

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Pgallert

Response by Pgallert 15:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Further improve the content of our projects. We have more than a 'seed acceptance'; good content will make sure people continue to visit us, and know about our aims.

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Approach 2 is good because this question remains largely unanswered. Approach 4 is good because even the 'born Wikimedian' might need a bit of help. There are still people out there that do not know what Wikipedia is, and they are predominantly in the global South

FNDE

Response by FNDE 15:52, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von FNDE auf die Hauptfrage

2, 3, 6

Tretyak

Response by Tretyak 16:12, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Tretyak — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Подход пятый

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The fifth approach.

Bilorv

Response by Bilorv 16:14, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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The question is leading because it assumes that increased traffic to projects is inherently better. As an editor, I personally don't care whether what I've written is read on wikipedia.org, a Google Knowledge box or an external mirror. More traffic directly to WMF sites does not benefit me. However, some of these approaches do sound beneficial to the project...

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...approach six (6) seems like it would make the site more user friendly on mobile; personally, I'd focus on mobile web view rather than mobile apps, but either seems like an important target. ...approach one (1), if I read it correctly, is about improving the site's interface; I have heard many comments that the sites look outdated and unergonomic. I can personally find my way around it but its colour schemes and layouts could perhaps do with an overhaul.

PalaciosBertolot

Response by PalaciosBertolot 16:19, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de PalaciosBertolot a la pregunta crítica

La mejor forma de alentar el tráfico y a su vez continuar apoyando la reutilización externa gratuita es logrando que los buscadores conocidos y de uso mas común (como google por ejemplo) priorice en sus listas de busqueda a los artículos en wikipedia.

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The best way to encourage traffic and in turn continue to support the free external reuse is obtaining search-engines' known and most commonly used (like google for example) to prioritize their search results with articles in Wikipedia.

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de PalaciosBertolot (o comparte tu propia idea)

Las mejores opciones son: 03 y 06. Otra opción podría ser lograr consolidar los artículos dispersos, por ejemplo hay muy buenos e interesantes artículos que tratan cada uno temas muy similares o interrelacionados. Por ejemplo si necesitas informarte sobre barcos mercantiles, en ese artículo no habla de los barcos mercantiles que navegan en rios o lagos del mundo, y si buscar transporte fluvial, solo habla de lo relacionado a experiencias en el misisipi de EEUU. Esto para un usuario que necesita encontrar información completa al respecto le dispersará la atención y puede que la paciencia. Consolidar los tres artículos respetando la autoría de sus creadores sería genial. Un revisor acreditado por los administradores o colaboradores podría hacer este trabajo.

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The best choices are: 03 and 06.

Another option would be to consolidate the scattered items, for example there are very good and interesting articles dealing with each very similar or interrelated issues. For example if you need to inform on merchant ships in that article does not speak of commercial vessels in rivers or lakes in the world, and if you find water transport, only talks about things related to experiences in the US Mississippi. This for a user who needs to find complete information about him can disperse attention and patience. Consolidate the three articles respecting the authorship of their creators would be great. An accredited by administrators or collaborators reviewer could do this job.

Vejlefjord

Response by Vejlefjord 16:20, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… #2, #7 delete all material or artcles lacking citations

Alarichall

Response by Alarichall 16:32, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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4

Kiarifigueroa27

Response by Kiarifigueroa27 16:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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The people have to write important things that they know

Alphama

Response by Alphama 16:45, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia should be introduced more in universities and schools. We should think about granting a kind of documents (certificate) for students who made edits at Wikipedia. And with this, they can earn more points in their subjects. Alphama (talk) 09:23, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 1, 2: In my observations, the number of new members is down gradually. New comers hardly find the warm welcome from the old Wikipedians who sometimes don't have time and even pleasure to explain how to write the Wikipedia content. We should have a training tour (course) for new members before they are ready to make their first edits. This training tour could be an online lab to teach new members step by step. We can show this tour as a series of videos. Wikipedia YouTube [2] did not have any videos which guide new comers how to edit Wikipedia like this video [3].

Dmitry Dzhagarov

Response by Dmitry Dzhagarov 17:07, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Dmitry Dzhagarov — ответ на насущные вопросы

...пишите здесь…1,2,3.

Dmitry Dzhagarov — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

...пишите здесь…Подход первый, Подход второй, Подход третий. Собственная идея: Откройте "Платную Википедию для фанатов", где каждый фанат сможет за определенную плату (donate) выражать свой восторг от своего кумира на всеобщее (бесплатное) обозрение. Собранные таким образом деньги направьте на улучшение контента Википедии редакторами серьезных научных журналов. Это повысит авторитет Википедии как источника новой научной информации.

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the first approach, the second approach, the third approach. Own idea: Open the "Paid for fans of Wikipedia," where every fan can, for a fee (donate) to express his delight in his idol to the public (free) review. The collected money thus aim at improving the content of Wikipedia editors of major journals. This will improve the credibility of Wikipedia as a source of new scientific information.

Mustafa desamangalam

Response by Mustafa desamangalam 17:21, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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i believe that wikie

Siwei.xin

Response by Siwei.xin 17:21, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Siwei.xin 使用者的前2或前3優先順序（或分享您自己的想法）

⋯⋯改善”编辑“区域，建议提供可视化编辑器的选择给新的维基人更好的修改条目的错误。⋯⋯

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Improve the "Edit" area, I recommended to provide visual editor as an option for new Wikipedians so they can modify articles' errors more easily.

217.246.111.78

Response by 217.246.111.78 17:25, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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A reader should not need more than one minute to get the essentials of an article

SusikMkr

Response by SusikMkr 17:40, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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...Approach six…

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...We need to improve quality of articles and also shape the list of most important articles, in order to have them in many languages. In short wee need to work with content too. May be amend the rules, in order to have collaborative atmosphere: frendly to newcomers…

Kcida10

Response by Kcida10 19:01, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Make Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-NC

No commerical 3rd party use without Wikipedias permission

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Maybe a really good 5 minute YouTube video to the introduction of Wiki Markup Language and how to edit a page

I also think Jimmy Whales should get on the horn to get every kid in high school a one hour lesson on Wiki Markup Language

Allow 3D designs - I put a logo on a lot of these containers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_container_shipping_companies And I wish people could click on the image on the page and then interact with it as a 3D model. It's a Sketchup .kmz 3D file that I just take a snapshot of but it looks amazing on Cubits for iPad. it would enhance the mobile experience and attract design contributors

PhantomMeep

Response by PhantomMeep 19:03, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 5 seems a good idea.

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^Hello. I like Approach 5. It seems to be the best one.

Samuele2002

Response by Samuele2002 19:34, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…Approccio (Approach) 1 e 6 --Samuele2002 (talk) 19:34, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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SageRad

Response by SageRad 19:34, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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To gain greater reach, the content must be improved so that it resonates more with people. To do that, Wikipedia's editing world needs more integrity, so that ANI and NPOVN and RSN and other noticeboards work to enforce the policies and guidelines, and to get rid of rude and bullying behavior and POV railroading. Currently, much of the content is in a form that has been railroaded into its status quo by bullies with agendas.

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All the suggestions are good, but as i have written, i believe the quality of the content needs to be improved by enforcing integrity in the editing process.

V0d01ey

Response by V0d01ey 19:49, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

V0d01ey — ответ на насущные вопросы

Основной путь - это повышение авторитетности проектов, доверия к содержанию проектов. Нужно создавать в первую очередь удобные инструменты для администрирования.

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The main way - is to increase the credibility of the projects, the credibility of the content of projects. We need to create in the first place convenient tools for administration.

V0d01ey — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Первый и второй подходы по моему мнению являются наиболее значимыми направлениями для достижения цели.

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The first and second approaches in my opinion are the most important actions to achieve the goal.

Don-kun

Response by Don-kun 20:00, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Don-kun auf die Hauptfrage

Gute, umfassende (im Sinne eines Textes, nicht einer reinen Datensammlung) und verlässliche Inhalte bieten.

Provide good, comprehensive (text based, not as a pure data collection) and reliable content.

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Don-kun

2, 3 und 6

Wikimpan

Response by Wikimpan 20:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approaches 2 and 3 are important — otherwise actions are blind. However, not too much resources should be spent on the topic. It’s a grave matter to know how the things work, but the research never comes before actions based on it.

Approach 4: encouraging students to use Wikipedia and sister projects could greatly increase the reach. The mentioned target audience is IMO a very good one, as it may lack access to other good sources of knowledge. This is especially true for students of small, privately owned schools spread across Africa and south-east Asia. But here arises an obstacle: access to the medium. Without first going over this issue, promoting Wikipedia among communities will be a pointless effort.

Zedshort

Response by Zedshort 20:27, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Increase reach by drawing in a new crew of people known as educators. There are a great many people who would like to ask questions about an article they are reading and there are others willing to assist others in learning. At present such interaction is limited to the very clunky “Talk” interface on each subject page of WP (or by the remote and almost useless “Reference Desk”). By making it possible for people to ask questions and receive answers from volunteer educators in a more direct and timely fashion, WP could become more dynamic, and diverse. I've no doubt that there are many people who have little interest in editing articles but would like to participate in educating by offering to answer questions about an article posed by some reader. Receiving an answer to a question in a timely manner would make WP more dynamic and would be a simple way of breathing life into the endeavor. By enabling some type of “Ask a question, get an answer” utility, WP would attract more educator participants. The body of educators drawn to this would change the demographics of WP for the better.

The purpose of WP is to educate not just to compile facts. I thank all the Techo-Dudes that have contributed so much so far, but it is time for a “complexion” and path change. Zedshort (talk) 21:58, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

MihalOrela

Response by MihalOrela 20:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach one: For me increasing language coverage is critical. FIRST Priority for me is expansion of the translation of universal material into the corresponding non-english languages; I have spent much time on EN --> BG; now I wish to spend the rest of my life in translation of [En --> Ga] and ideally original [Ga --> EN ]

Some good progress here with features like the Content Translation tool. Westonnh (talk) 01:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

@MihalOrela: There's a new blog post about this tool, if you aren't already using it, and want to read more. :-) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:08, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach two: I have been been inactive for some years now, (I am 65), and have used Wikipedia in my Master's Degree course in Interactive Electronic Technology (MScIET University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland. My subject was Mathematics. My students were required to study Wikipedia Mathematics at Master's Level, 1st in English and then a language of their choice. Since at least half the students were non-English speakers, we had research projects whereby every student wrote in English AND another language of their choice, Turkish, Chinese, French, ... In the seven years, there was only one in the Irish Gaelic! Then I looked at the GA pages and was shocked! I contributed a small amount of text in the Math. I must have made some comments on this in the last two years... Suddenly, there was a "revolution", at least in the Mathematics sections. Today, it is beginning to look somewhat healthy with respect to the Mathematics. But there is an awful lot still to be done. Today I spend much time translating the English versions of Irish towns, to build up a Gaelic Culture again. Over the years, I have been surprised how well Google Translate works! It is never exact. Nor ought it to be. Since I have a French background also, I should like to work on the Irish/French translations.

Thank you! It is so great you are doing this! --Lgruwell-WMF (talk) 00:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Worlddreamer

Response by Worlddreamer 20:36, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Worlddreamer's response to the critical question

Approach 6 and approach 1 seem most useful. I've tried at least 6 different wiki mobile apps, only one was really good, and then it failed. That app was wikitourist. I really like what wikivoyage is doing. If wikivoyage had it's own app I would probably like that too. On wikivoyage travel information can be saved on a pdf file for reading later, which is good but I would like it to require less steps. Additionally, the phrasebooks are a good idea that could be expanded. The organizing of travel knoweledge has caused me to use wikivoyage directly over 2 days now. And a mobile app for wikivoyage makes sense to it's purpose.

Sanglahi86

Response by Sanglahi86 20:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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As long as the projects reduce technical stuff such as Licensing details (in Commons) and less jargon (WP rules, markup language), I believe people will contribute easily. Before joining Wikipedia, I wanted to edit, but was "scared" off immediately by the technical markup language.

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• Approach three: Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects.
• Approach six: Improve Wikipedia mobile apps to increase use.
• Approach seven: Visual editor is not enough. Many people make their own blogs and post photos so easily on Facebook so easily, but why not in Wikipedia or Commons? It appears the Licensing details as well as wiki markup are so technical to most casual web users that it becomes intimidating or worrisome to create a mistake they normally want to avoid.

Seagull123

Response by Seagull123 20:40, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Mainly by raising awareness about what each Wikimedia project can offer (especially the projects other than Wikipedia, as Wikipedia is pretty well known). This could be done by improving the translation tools available and encouraging (experienced) translators to help with translation efforts to expand content on all language Wiki projects. Then once content is good, more people will think of Wikimedia projects as good sites for whatever they're looking for (travel guides, sources, translations etc.) which will encourage more people to come back to these sites, and possibly, contribute and become editors.

Seagull123's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 1 and 6. With mobile apps, making sure that they're easy to use and have good user interfaces. Related to mobile apps, the mobile websites are sometimes quite plain and almost boring (I'm mainly talking about the main pages). This may be to make it load quickly, I'm not sure, but I think some of these could be "improved". See the Wikivoyage mobile main page compared to the desktop main page. Note how there is no colour or images on the mobile one. I understand that the sliding menus probably couldn't be on the mobile site, but some images or colour could be.

Also, making projects accessible to new editors; removing/reducing jargon (like policy shortcut codes), making markup easier to use and making policies themselves more understandable. This way, new editors are less likely to be scared off by the "complicatedness" of the projects. Seagull123 (talk) 20:44, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Rwelean

Response by Rwelean 20:46, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 1

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I believe approaches 5 and 6 are also important.

ArthurPSmith

Response by ArthurPSmith 20:52, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

ArthurPSmith's response to the critical question

Work with app developers and other re-users to allow seamless authentication for wikimedia users and allow an easy path to edit content, so anybody spotting wrong information can correct it whether or not they are on a wikimedia site.

ArthurPSmith's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach three (see critical question comment - work with developers of major reuse applications)
• Approach five (make it easy to edit via non-browser apps)
• Approach six (I've never figured out how to get to "Talk" pages when reading enwiki on my cell phone).

Alex Zavorin

Response by Alex Zavorin 21:02, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Alex Zavorin — ответ на насущные вопросы

Наилучшим для привлечения будет повышения узнаваемости Wiki среди детей и молодёжи. Также немаловажным будет повышения статуса тех, кто много даёт Wiki, чтобы стимулировать приток тех, кто пишет. Также организации нужно меняться и адаптироваться: невозможно оставаться без изменений, когда весь мир стремительно меняется (между тем принципы организации Wiki мало меняются, во всяком случае о таких изменениях ничего не известно).

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The best would be to raise awareness of Wiki among children and youth. Also important is improving the status of those who give a lot to Wiki, to stimulate the flow of those who write. Also, organizations need to change and adapt: it is impossible to remain unchanged when the whole world is changing rapidly (between the principles of Wiki vary little, if anything of such changes is not known).

Alex Zavorin — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Второй подход и третий наиболее оптимальны.

Тем не менее, следует проводить научные, познавательные и культурные мероприятия с уже известными институциями (университеты, библиотеки, международные организации, общественные организации и т.д.) в мире, где будет продвигаться Wiki. Думаю, что Wiki не хватает современного PR. Нужны программы развития и представленности Wiki в потенциальных аудиториях. Далее, необходимо больше внимания уделять GM: наладить систематическую работу с ЮНЕСКО, институтами ООН, правительствами и т.д. Думаю, что адаптация развития Wiki должна осуществляться синхронно.

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The second approach, and the third most optimal.

Nevertheless, there should be scientific, educational and cultural events with the known institutions (universities, libraries, international organizations, NGOs, etc.) in a world where progresses Wiki. I think that Wiki lacks modern PR. We need development programs and the representation of a Wiki potential audience. Next, you need to pay more attention to GM: develop systematic work with UNESCO, the UN agencies, governments, etc. I think that adaptation of Wiki should be carried out simultaneously.

Maxorazon

Response by Maxorazon 21:37, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hello, my option, besides the second, would be the seventh : work toward improving quality.

I entered the Wiki project one month ago after having been consulting Wikipedia for fifteen years. My main worry, and what to me seems a key reason to the decreasing Wikimedia traffic , is quality of content, as emphasized many times since many years. I would suggest rising an important share of the articles to the Featured quality standard, and focusing on the overall progress of the others. An idea would be giving more credit to worthy contributors than it is currently, and displaying the rating of an article directly on the page of the article. I also experienced a really mess in content organization. Too much redundancy, some taskforces would be very enjoyed. Better ways to parse categories, like the interesting CategoryTree ascendent/descendent browsing would be welcome.

Hi Maxorazon - Thanks for taking the time to participate. I hear you on quality of content. Do you have an idea about what the Wikimedia Foundation can do with respect to improving quality (without writing the content itself). I think we have seen some good programs, such as supporting university trainings. However, I'm curious if you have any ideas on how the Foundation can actually support the community to improve content at a large scale - something that really helps the community improve quality in a supportive role. GeoffBrigham (WMF) (talk) 00:47, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Another topic related to quality would be visualisation. There are a few projects allowing for graph generation from the wiki content. Osaka's SigWP is one of those. It has great data processing, and quite a poor user interface. It does not allow parsing from different namespaces either. Am I dreaming of 3D graphs, navigable like a First Person Shooter-view, even semantical searches? I am!

Best regards.Maxorazon (talk) 21:37, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

173.71.8.173

Response by 173.71.8.173 22:59, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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This type of question and answer process is exactly why folks are leaving Wikipedia. It is way too hard to contribute. I have like many other set up own site and now rarely add to WSikipedia.

Vysokinskyi

Response by Vysokinskyi 23:02, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Відповідь Vysokinskyi на критичне питання

Проектам Вікі потрібно приділяти особливу увагу світовим трендам. Чим більше актуальних даних, тим більше читачів, користувачів тощо.

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Wiki Projects need to pay special attention to the world trend. The more current data, the more readers, users and others.

2-3 найважливіші підходи, на думку Vysokinskyi (або запропонуйте власну ідею)

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Thanks. I agree we need to be more responsive to world trends, especially as we think about reach in the global context. GeoffBrigham (WMF) (talk) 00:41, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

VanEman

Response by VanEman 23:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Many of the people who use Wikimedia speak English as a second language. Contributors should be encouraged to use simple English so that others can understand easily, even if English is not their first language. Tutorials should be given on how to use simple English.

Ryan Hodnett

Response by Ryan Hodnett 23:58, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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• Approach one
• Approach two
• Approach five

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G41rn8

Response by G41rn8 00:45, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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2,3

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Missimack

Response by Missimack 02:20, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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The user interface of behind the scenes sections are in serious need of an upgrade to something more user-friendly and which can provide a better user experience. As it is, many of the readers of our content don't really know how they can help to expand it. Yes, there are edit buttons, but if you want readers to go beyond correcting the odd typo, they must be able to reach the areas of the website that allow them to go behind the scenes. The first guideline of Wikipedia is "be bold", yet I know many daily users of Wikipedia who have never heard of it before! What hope is there, then, that these people will consider contributing to any of the Wikimedia projects? Information for editors is badly organised and it is often difficult to find what one needs. There are pages and pages of mostly useless archives (disorganised information is rarely of use to anyone, especially when it's outdated), so searching for a specific guideline can be too time consuming to even bother doing it sometimes. It's very discouraging.

In short: user interface should be improved.

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Approaches one and two. Language coverage should definitely be a priority. It appears that more user research is needed to figure out why this decrease in contributors is occurring in the first place.

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JoshuaKGarner

Response by JoshuaKGarner 02:45, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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English Wikipedia is already the #1 informational web site, and is constantly growing. Most other projects are healthy as well. The current strategies are working excellently. Keep on course.

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Approach one is the most obvious. Do things that people want done. It's quite simple. I feel as if approaches two, three, five, and six would lead to rather insignificant developments.

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Pgan002

Response by Pgan002 03:05, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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In order: approaches 3, 2, 4

Meeting user needs (1) is important for keeping users, but requires understanding those needs (2, 3). Making the WSWYG editor default for all users would help a lot. The editor is great, but if there are suggested improvements, they would also help a lot. Besides that, I suspect that users are leaving not because WM lacks what they need, but because they access the information without reaching WM. I doubt that finding content is a problem: it has not been for me personally, even if I usually use Web search. While additional formats may be worthwhile for users, if content in those formats can be re-published, such re-publishing will continue to take away visitors.

I expect that increasing use in developing countries (4) will bring many users and such countries are less of a target for re-published content.

(5) worsens the roots of the posed problem instead of addressing them.

(6) would probably surge readership and possibly donations, but not editing.

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Addressing the problem directly requires restricting to some extent the reproduction of experiences available on WM. The easiest way to do that (even with existing content) is to change re-publishing rights, though this option may be unpopular. I doubt that WM can provide a unique experience by using some technology that cannot be reproduced. WM's strengths are that it is the content source, and the community around the content. The reasons I use WP are that it has the latest content version, I can improve content I am reading as reference, I can find the most important references on a topic, and informative Talk page discussions missing from the article.

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Knxwrtr

Response by Knxwrtr 03:34, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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High schools, colleges and university students are banned from using WikiMedia. For that reason, it's fallen out of favor. I'm an older student (very!) and I'm in the habit of, if nothing else, turning to Wikipedia to send myself in the right direction. However, young students have been habituated to avoid Wikimedia at all costs. You can try to reach out to schools, but be prepared for a lot of pushback. I don't understand why this is, really, unless teachers don't trust students to verify their sources after coming here first. Bear in mind that I'm a journalist. Perhaps I'm good at discerning good info and sources from bad. By the way, I rarely find errors and that is after using Wikipedia for years.

Zoeannl

Response by Zoeannl 04:58, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Six-Access to internet generally will increasingly be via mobile. Immediate response wanted. Wikipedia can provide effective summaries of information.

Ядерный Трамвай

Response by Ядерный Трамвай 06:41, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Ядерный Трамвай — ответ на насущные вопросы

Необходимо поддерживать разработчиков расширений и сервисов, взаимодействующих с энциклопедиями Викимедиа. Ну и реклама в современном мире решает всё. Не было бы такого дикого ажиотажа вокруг смартфонов, если бы они не рекламировались усиленно. Так же и проекты Викимедиа — нужно повышать 1) популярность (отличие от конкурентов) 2) привлекательность (идеи свободного редактирования и использования, дух открытости и некоммерческости)

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It is necessary to support the development of extensions and services that interact with the Wikimedia encyclopedias. And advertising in today's world is everything. It would not be such a wild hype around smartphones, if they are not heavily advertised. Similarly, the Wikimedia projects - need to raise 1) popularity (unlike its competitors), 2) the appeal (the idea of free editing and use, the spirit of openness and non-profit)

Ядерный Трамвай — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Я поддерживаю пятый и первый подходы. С одной стороны, есть смысл не снижать порог вхождения в редактирование Википедии до примитива. С другой стороны, способ подачи информации уже в этой консультации меня бы мог оттолкнуть, если бы я не был в какой-то степени уже прожжённым википедистом.

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I support the fifth and the first approach. On the one hand, it makes sense not to reduce the barrier to entry in the Wikipedia edit to the primitive. On the other hand, a method of supplying the information already in the consultation would have to push me, if I had not been to some extent already seasoned web Wikipedians.

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Uberlyuber

Response by Uberlyuber 07:27, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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This particular question is a step above my pay grade, as there is so much to this question. How do we stop potential vandals? Do we tighten restrictions, preventing non registered users from editing? Or do we further loosen restrictions, so that experts in the field can more easily and quickly respond to vandalism? Point is: I'm not quite sure.

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I certainly like approach six, having a really nice, easy to use mobile UI would be a rather nice thing. I have a Chromebook so that's not as necessary as it could be, however I know many people would love to just go on their tablets and read one hell of a story.

But I have my own approach - focus on less developed nations. Wikipedia and her sister projects have the ability to change someone's life, and having an instant access to so much knowledge would surely be a godsend in poor nations. Not only that, but it would surely increase Wikipedia/media's reach quite far, and do a public service for everyone. Win-win, am I right? Only thing to watch out for is that this may bring more vandals, so certainly tighten up security on that end.

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QuixoticLife

Response by QuixoticLife 08:13, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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APIs! Make it easier to integrate Wikimedia content in other projects/sites/apps in ways that make clear its origins (with links). Because until you do, site scraping is going to be easier and people will keep doing it.

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In order from highest priority: 5, 6, 1. Building a reliable API structure will ensure support for diverse projects, and given the presence of mobile devices in low-income communities and the Global South the mobile apps need to be highly prioritized as well. Improving the user experience is important, but those two pieces are structurally critical.

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Roychand1

Response by Roychand1 08:25, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Wikimedia is helping people that's very good.

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Wikipedia should start a special tab to listen the problems of new users.

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Jobrjobr

Response by Jobrjobr 08:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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5,6

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...write here…

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Rimfire47

Response by Rimfire47 10:38, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approaches 1, 2 and 3.

Hamneto

Response by Hamneto 11:18, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… I think, the bottom line is, that people should expect and get Quality from Wikimedia and indeed all Wikipedia services. This quality should be maintained over time and improved. Reach will follow. Hamneto (talk) 11:22, 26 January 2016 (UTC)Hamneto

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...write here…I think a combination of approaches is needed, primarily Approach One and Approach Five. Hamneto (talk) 11:18, 26 January 2016 (UTC)Hamneto

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Wlg3616

Response by Wlg3616 11:25, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…Approach two and six

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Juandev

Response by Juandev 11:50, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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...3, 5, 6

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Sophie Graubert

Response by Sophie Graubert 12:35, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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...répondez ici... 4 1 2

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உலோ.செந்தமிழ்க்கோதை Approach 4-6

Response by உலோ.செந்தமிழ்க்கோதை 13:59, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Happy Attack Dog

Response by Happy Attack Dog 14:04, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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...We should work on translations of pages to other languages, but focus on languages that belong to countries that are just coming on the internet (they are countries that are getting a lot of people started to use the internet more) Happy Attack Dog (talk) 14:04, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Rahmotullahlekhon

Response by Rahmotullahlekhon 14:08, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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You need to make your special contents in points which can be more clear for the visitors. if you pointing your content's highlights in front of the visitors, those points are more understandable for them to feel attaction to your work project.

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Sargolin

Response by Sargolin 15:03, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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...répondez ici...1-2-3

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Hassan Kalwas

Response by Hassan Kalwas 15:06, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Awesome

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Luke081515

Response by Luke081515 15:13, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Ich fände es am besten, wenn man Ansatz zwei konsequent verfolgt, denn ohne Autoren ist Wikipedia nix. Ich halte das wichtig, das auch in zukunft die Anzahl der Autoren steigt, anstatt das sie sinkt. Dazu gehört das Vermeiden von Sachen wie Superprotect, und das man sich bei neuen Technikerrungenschaften eher an dem willen der Communits orientiert. Zudem wäre eine bessere Labs-Infrastuktur gut, denn wenn Bots nicht gehen, die Wartungslisten erstellen, die Autoren bearbeiten, frustriert das auch mehrere Autoren, nicht nur die Botbetreiber.

I think it would be best if you pursue approach two consistently, because without authors Wikipedia is nothing. I think it important that the number of authors further increases in the future, rather than decreases. This includes avoiding things like Superprotect, and to look with new technology achievements rather for the will of Communities. In addition, a better Labs infrastructure would be good, because if bots are not working, that create the maintenance lists the authors work on, this will frustrate several authors, not just the Bot-maintainer.

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1. Ansatz zwei (2)
2. Ansatz eins (1)

Astinson (WMF)

Response by Astinson (WMF) 16:40, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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One of our biggest problems right now is that a) a majority of our biggest users are students, and b) those students rarely get taught how to intelligably use Wikipedia: either teachers or librarians challenge the value of Wikipedia, so in their life-long learning experience: there is a continuous nagging that it might not be reliable or that it might not be the "best" source of information. Moreover, those students, in learning about Wikipedia from authorities critiquing its content, rarely learn the more wide-reaching impacts of the movement, or that they can edit, or that their are other projects, because they are not encouraged to explore those impacts.

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I think these solutions are missing the mark in some ways: We need to actively, with communications, UX, and programs, reshape the story of Wikipedia in education environments. We have fairly substantial quality content in our bigger language communities, most people are noticing that, but very few teachers or librarians (the biggest communities that mediate information access in our established reader base), spend time showing students that a) they can contribute and b) how to use the source effectively to get to other research information, so that Wikimedia and Wikipedia projects are part of life-long habits of accessing to information and education. Also, thanks to GLAM, TWL and most improtantly, The Education Program: we already have the story for teaching these skills to students: but we need to invest substantially more resources in making these ubiquitous. We've been resting on our Google Dominance laurels too long and by only prioritizing technical or "response to user behaviour" solutions, we are missing the more complex -- but potential longer lasting options, created by deep institutional adoption of Wikipedia as a neccessary part of education, instead of just a convenient one.

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I think, you are right. WMDE first tried to teach users how to use WP, but that didn´t scale. Then they tried to teach teachers, but I guess that didn´t scale either. I don´t know what The Education Program does, but reaching out to our readers (mostly students) should be a priority. But, I´m afraid, WMF understands themselves as a technology entity (I don´t want to say company, I just don´t know the proper English word). And I´m afraid, WMF has no communication strategy to reach them (but that is another topic). --Goldzahn (talk) 16:58, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Llywrch

Response by Llywrch 16:50, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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In re encyclopedias, approach two is one that has not been properly investigated. In a nutshell, why people consult encyclopedias & why has not been studied, let alone any study of the best known methods for writing encyclopedia articles. The relevant essays on Wikipedia are the most current literature on these topics. My further thoughts on this problem can be found here. But I suspect much of these discussions, even the most insightful, are simply exercises in re-inventing the wheel.

I believe the best way to approach this issue, & what would best benefit the editors & volunteers, would be to commission academics in the field of library or information sciences (i.e., from the liberal arts, not STEM areas) to produce a survey & summary of the existing material. In attempting to research this issue, I've found that the literature is either scarce or limited to highly specialized periodicals & publications that make it difficult for anyone without access to a world-level research library to find, let alone read. But if there was even a handlist of the more important titles, interested Wikimedians could use ILL to find these works & evaluate their usefulness.

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Joe Sewell

Response by Joe Sewell 17:30, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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The best way to encourage traffic is to cease discouraging it. Shut down the holier-than-thou attitudes of those "in charge." Realize that people do have personal knowledge that may not be verifiable at the current moment through a Google search. Encourage improving bad grammar in existing articles, rather than attacking new ones that are formatted in a similar fashion to existing ones.

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Approach 6 is definitely a good idea. I feel, though, that the "reach" of the entire system of projects is severely hindered by the bad attitude of those who have taken control, whether it be through administrative or bureaucratic privileges or through "projects," of too many articles, criticize some participation, while permitting poor grammar and blatantly incorrect edits elsewhere.

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Louis-garden

Response by Louis-garden 17:35, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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6

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2-5

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AaronEJ

Response by AaronEJ 18:19, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Promoting the creation of local wiki-groups that can come together in a physical location and work on a project together. If these groups could be intergenerational (work with schools, local government and elderly homes for example) and serve as a means of collaborative learning that happens on a regular basis. Possible funding of said groups would encourage this. Better documentation on templating would be good. Also, making the WYSIWYG editing system available throughout Wikimedia's sites, especially the talk/discuss sections would be nice.

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Number one and five are very important. Also promoting active groups and connecting people together who have a shared interest.

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Esa1952

Response by Esa1952 18:25, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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It is high time to make a contract with encyclopedias Britannica and Americana for renting their copy rights for at least three years for free users of Wikipedia and for this purpose google ads will help to generate required payments for the Encyclopedia owners. Booth the encyclopedias be displayed under the heading of Wikipedia free encyclopedia.

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Gorvzavodru

Response by Gorvzavodru 19:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Gorvzavodru — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Подход пятый Развить и документировать наши API (программные интерфейсы приложения), чтобы дать возможность другим повторно использовать наши материалы и выстраивать свои собственные проекты с их включением.

[Fifth approach]

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Ing. Garin

Response by Ing. Garin 20:11, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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3

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2

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Scottedwards2000

Response by Scottedwards2000 20:47, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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two five

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Qwerty11235

Response by Qwerty11235 21:36, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Already, Wikipedia comes up as a front page site for most Google searches. Use will come when people have a want for information. Creating a want for information would be a good way to increase traffic. Social media accounts with solid and current facts that come from Wikipedia that pertain to world issues would help traffic increase.

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Approach 4 for a larger population of users Approach 2 Approach 6 for usablility

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Awikimate

Response by Awikimate 22:27, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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two, three and four

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VexorAbVikipædia

Response by VexorAbVikipædia 23:48, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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I have been contributing to Wikipedia for years. Nevertheless, I don't even know what "Wikimedia" is, nor do I know what a "project" is.

I would suggest that you make a very simple, short video about what Wikimedia is and what a project is and why you would like people to come to your projects — because at present, I sincerely doubt that many people even know what these things are, or are even aware that they exist. (Remember to: K.I.S.S. = Keep it simple, stupid) Post your video on YouTube and elsewhere.

That's a chronic problem with Wikipedia: it's run by invisible, unnamed, unseen administrators who communicate in their own unintelligible technical jargon. It's almost intended to repel people. Well, it's obviously succeeded very well in repelling people — and you're suffering the consequences.

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Approach two

Approach seven: Again, above all, you need to advertise — on Wikipedia itself — what Wikimedia is and what a project is. You mistakenly assume that just because you're closely involved with these things, everyone else is also aware of them. They ain't. You need to advertise.

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LovelyLillith

Response by LovelyLillith 00:01, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Give broader exposure to the entire Wiki family on Wikipedia, with landing pages or banners. I've been an editor there for years, and I still barely scratch the surface of projects outside of Wikipedia because I don't know much about them. Wikipedia is the most frequently visited, is it not? LovelyLillith (talk) 00:01, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approaches one, three and six

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RonnieV

Response by RonnieV 00:13, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

RonnieV's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

In de landen waar internetgebruik normaal is, is Wikipedia eenvoudig toegankelijk. De beste mogelijkheid om te groeien in verkeer (al hoop ik dat er gedoeld wordt op bezoekersaantallen) ligt dan ook in minder ontgonnen gebieden.

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In countries where Internet use is normal, Wikipedia is easily accessible. The best opportunity for growth in traffic (though I hope that what is meant is attendance) therefore lies in less cultivated areas.

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Met stip op een komt dan benadering vier, het bereiken van de bevolking in twee ontwikkelingslanden. Aangezien veel extern gebruik de vermelding van de rechten van de Wikipedia-bewerkers niet serieus neemt, zou er een betere monitoring moeten zijn van het externe gebruik en zou ernaar gestreefd moeten worden dat de API-gebruikers het wel netjes doen. Beter nog zou het zijn als mensen gebruik maken van Wikipedia zelf, dus benadering drie komt voor mij op de tweede plaats.

On the first spot for me is approach four, the achievement of the populations in two developing countries. Since many external users do not take the statement of the rights of the Wikipedia editors seriously, there should be better monitoring of the external uses, and should be pursuing the API users who don't do it properly. Better yet would be if people use Wikipedia itself, so approach three comes for me in second place.

Blackjackrobo

Response by Blackjackrobo 01:46, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 1

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approaches 6 and 4

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Jogerj

Response by Jogerj 02:19, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach six is promising with the significant number of growth in smartphone users worldwide. Develop an app which creates notifications (optional to user via settings) when a user is at a specific location, time, or event which prompts users to contribute documentational medias such as pictures, videos, etc.

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Increase local awareness in populous/developing countries.

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Ambrosia10

Response by Ambrosia10 04:25, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach six Approach one Approach three

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...write here…

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Tibo Nova

Response by Tibo Nova 04:49, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach five

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In decreasing order: 5, 1, 2

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Carlotm

Response by Carlotm 08:13, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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We have to play on the format in which information is presented. It should be, yes precise and accurate, but also interesting to the eye, and, occasionally, to the ear.

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• Approach 1 (more important). There should be, for the most important pages, a specially formatted multimedia FIRST page, rich in mediatic support (e.g. the Google search infobox), rich in buttons to click to reach more multimedia backup (bigger coverage of external links - GLAM), Trivia section, See also section, infoboxes and sub-pages for in dept and/or more articulated information. The FIRST page identical/similar content may be presented in 5/6 main languages (only two/three for indo-europeans, on two scripts).
• Approach 2 (particularly important regarding Approach six).
• Approach 6.
• My further approach: terminate any external usage of Wiki content where Name, logo and a button for reaching the compelling Wikipedia page, are absent. You sold off Wikipedia to Google already, and now it must be recovered.

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Serjnazarov1

Response by Serjnazarov1 09:07, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Serjnazarov1 — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

На мой взгляд, лучшими подходами являются 5 и 6 - развитие API и улучшение мобильного приложения - особенно последнее, т.к. мобильное приложение сейчас очень ограничено в функционале.

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In my opinion, the best approach is a 5 and 6 - the development of the API and the improvement of mobile applications - especially the latter, because mobile application is very limited in functionality.

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79.201.13.49

Response by 79.201.13.49 10:19, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von 79.201.13.49 auf die Hauptfrage

Die Arbeit an der freien Enzyklopadie bzw. an ihren Artikeln muss in allen Sprachversionen weiter – in erster Linie inhaltlich – verfolgt werden, damit Aktualität und Professionalität gewährleistet sind.

Work on the open encyclopedia or on their articles must in all language versions followed up - above all for content - to ensure the timeliness and professionalism.

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Ansatz zwei und Ansatz sechs erscheinen mir am ehesten geeignet, um die Zukunftsfähigkeit des Projektes (im Konkreten, der dt. Wikipedia) zu verbessern, denn eine Auswertung des Nutzerverhaltens bietet erst einmal eine gute Grundlage auf der man später aufbauen kann. Zudem ist es so, dass die mobile Internetnutzung zunehmends wichtiger wird, sodass es nur konsequent ist, die mobilen Versionen der Wikipedia(s) weiterzuentwickeln

Approach two and approach six seem to me the most appropriate to improve the sustainability of the project (in the concrete, the dt. Wikipedia), because an analysis of user behaviour gives a good first base on which to build later. Moreover, the mobile internet use is increasingly important, so it is only logical to develop mobile versions of Wikipedia(s) further.

Huldra

Response by Huldra 11:56, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Make the content more reliable. All the scandals about made-up, fake material on Wikipedia hurts Wikipedia more than anything else. Why look it up on Wikipedia, when you cannot trust anything there?

What is being done on the medical articles is a very good start. We need similar projects in other parts of Wikipedia, too.

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KPFC

Response by KPFC 12:40, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von KPFC auf die Hauptfrage

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6, 5, 3

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Ingrid Kottke

Response by Ingrid Kottke 13:52, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… I consider approach 1 and 6 the most important. As A supplier I notice complicate and mixed advice for wikibooks

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Hareesh Alamala

Response by Hareesh Alamala 14:15, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Dlkramnic

Response by Dlkramnic 16:29, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…I like approach two. I also like approach one, except I don't know how it could be accomplished without hurting the ease with which Wikipedia can be used now.

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Chrfwow

Response by Chrfwow 16:30, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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• Website in Googles Material Design (https://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html) gestalten (ähnlich wie Android App)
• Automatisierte Zugriffe auf Wikimedia (Bild des Tages erlauben)
• Wikimedia als vertrauenswürdige Quelle (bei Diplomarbeiten, Vorwissenschaftliche Arbeiten) zu erlauben. Um das zu erreichen, sollten mehr Menschen angestellt werden, welche die Qualität der Seiten sicherstellen. Schließlich wird Wikipedia von mehr menschen überprüft als alle Chroniken und Lexika zusammen.
  

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• Design the website like Googles Material Design (https://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html) (similar to the Android app)
• Automatic access to Wikimedia (allow Picture of the day)
• Allow Wikimedia as a trusted source (for diploma thesis or pre-scientific works) To make this happen, more people should be employed, who ensure the quality of the pages. After all, Wikipedia is checked by more people as all chronicles and lexica together.

Marcel coenders

Response by Marcel coenders 16:33, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Marcel coenders's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

Our purpose is spreading knowledge for all bij all. The number of views, even the existence op wikipedia it self is in fact less important.

Marcel coenders's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

6. The world has changed from desktop -> laptop -> smartphone so wikipedia has to adopt mobile platforms.

4. Geographical boundaries al disapearing but socio-economic and developmental differences still HUDGE. Wikipedia is one of the possibilities to facilitate development en spread of knowledge. This for us our reason to be.

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Ozdiaz

Response by Ozdiaz 16:59, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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In no particular order, I support: - Approach 1 - Approach 3 - Approach 5

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Zeramo

Response by Zeramo 17:13, 27 January 2016

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Approaches 3, 5+6.

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Shangkuanlc

Response by Shangkuanlc 17:21, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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跟教科書和學校結合，讓許多學校書籍的參考讀物可以用維基計劃的內容。

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Combining textbooks and school, so that many school books' lesson plans can contribute content.

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• 策略一: 通過分析使用者體驗及使用者需求，提高使用者的數量和使用頻率。這種方法會產生多種內容格式，使維基媒體內容更容易被發現，同時增加語種翻譯的覆蓋率等。
• 策略三: 提升在社群內、社群之間、以及跨維基媒體組織間的溝通與透明程度。
• 策略六: 改善維基百科的行動app來提升使用狀況。--> Maybe not only mobile app, but the user experience on mobile devices across Wikimedia Projects.

[Approaches 1, 3, 6, + note]

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Gnrc

Response by Gnrc 18:46, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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3 puis 6

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Timothyclethbridge

Response by Timothyclethbridge 19:13, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach one, Approach four, Approach five

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Build confidence in authority of wikimedia content by making it more obvious which world experts agree with or are editing or are monitoring content.

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2001:14BA:15FB:9D00:D985:BFD8:9BC:9E1E

Response by 2001:14BA:15FB:9D00:D985:BFD8:9BC:9E1E 20:44, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Cmcatherman

Response by Cmcatherman 20:51, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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I believe that approaches one and six would be the best options. Being able to help adapt a user's experience by making more pages generic. For example, I was browsing musical artists on Wikipedia this morning, and noticed almost every artist had a different layout for the content sections. I suggest having every option available (i.e. History, Career, early life) but if there is no content to state under a certain tab, then state "No information available." This will allow three results. First, it will let the user whomever is searching that page no that there is no results or information for that portion of that person's career. Second, it will allow editors who are willing to find the information, or know the information to add it in versus reading the entire page content to see if it is missing. Lastly, it will cause for more users to use Wikipedia in the future because they will be aware of any evidence in that portion of history to be stated, and if the page reads "No content available" under a specific section, then the user will no there is no reason to continue searching the internet for evidence on that person/event/place they initially searched (a.k.a. make the pages more generic and easier to find content).

Also, you can suggest possible options for the user view the page to improve the layout of the page, and possibly take polls on the side of the page on what format the users would prefer.

Option six would be good because it will allow users to have easy access on their mobile devices to either search for a page, or easily search where a particular name appears on any Wikipedia page (allow indexing of all pages to search for particular words).

May be spelling/grammatical errors above, did not proof.

Cheers, Colin

Thanks Colin! GeoffBrigham (WMF) (talk) 01:28, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Besenok

Response by Besenok 21:10, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach two: Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs.
Approach three: Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects.
Approach four: Increase awareness and use of Wikimedia projects in two Global South countries.

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Jojo17

Response by Jojo17 21:39, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Améliorer notre compréhension de la manière et des raisons pour lesquelles nos utilisateurs visitent et restent sur nos projets de façon à mieux servir leurs besoins.

[Approach 2]

L235

Response by L235 21:41, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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What we've been doing thus far has been working pretty well. The idea is to ensure we remain high in search engine results while making it clear that forks and other creative adaptations are allowed and encouraged. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c · enwiki) 21:41, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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In order: Approaches two, three, and six, and then all the rest equally. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c · enwiki) 21:41, 27 January 2016 (UTC) Go to next topic area (Communities)

Saxonicus

Response by Saxonicus 22:07, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Saxonicus auf die Hauptfrage

Ansatz eins, zwei und drei unterstütze ich.

I support approaches one, two and three.

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Einbindung von Schulen und Universitäten: Lehrkräfte sollten a) Wikipedia-Artikel im Unterricht nutzen; b) Wikipedia-Artikel als Quelle/Literaturangabe in Arbeiten der Schüler/Studenten zu akzeptieren und c) Schüler zu veranlassen, selbst (einzeln oder im Team) neue Artikel zu schreiben.

Involvement of schools and universities: teachers should a) make use of the Wikipedia articles in the classroom; b) accept a Wikipedia article as a source/citation in works of pupils/students and c) encourage students themselves (individually or as a team) to write new articles.

Stu's Images

Response by Stu's Images 22:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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The best way is to improve the reputation of the quality of Wikipedia articles (the website that gets the most publicity). A major publicity campaign may be necessary to counteract media bad press. Wikipedia has some very high quality content, this should be publicised, and steps taken to block vandalism.

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Approaches 1, 2

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104.220.38.230

Response by 104.220.38.230 22:25, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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-Reach will be improved by less academic-intellectual-cold approach and more understanding of the role of Wiki; sometimes articles get deleted too soon. People that have put their time and energy into this will not come back and will tell others what happened; there are already other wiki initiatives.

-When working on an article I suddenly became aware of the possibility of visual editing. To most users that want to help expand wikipedia the edit page with strange characters is a reason to stop. This would not have happened if they would have seen the 'visual editing' page immediately (esp with the help balloons).

-Furthermore Wikipedia plays a role in keeping existing label artist and acts apart from the smaller, independent, upcoming groups that are working their asses of to get a market share. The music industry does everything to keep the existing label artists working, of course. There are less and less live music venues and ticket prices are going up, so that the audience does not have money to see their local acts. Thus the music scene is dead in awhile, because of this catch-22 situation. I hope you understand.

Bas, www.thefreewheelers.nl <- likes welcome :-)

Лорд Бъмбъри

Response by Лорд Бъмбъри 22:39, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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I do not see traffic to our projects as low. We have a website which has been among the ten most visited websites worldwide and in most countries for years now. Therefore I think we should not lose too much energy on this.

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1. Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects.
2. Improving and documenting APIs

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Thanks. I agree with both. I'm interested in any ideas on how we encourage reusers of such content to go to Wikimedia projects. I could see strategic partnerships where the content is delivered up on the third party site and through some type of negotiation leverage we negotiate an edit button and proper attribution. If you have any other ideas, I would be interested in them. GeoffBrigham (WMF) (talk) 01:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Gailletboréal

Response by Gailletboréal 23:58, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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1

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Libcub

Response by Libcub 00:14, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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One, Six, Four

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Theotherjfrankfurt

Response by Theotherjfrankfurt 00:42, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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I would like to see information about content use over time, rate of access, demographics, etc.

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Pointro

Response by Pointro 03:12, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 1, Approach 5

202.50.49.9

Response by 202.50.49.9 05:41, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Include more participant from peoples to write the information & give them points or labels to writers to encourage them.

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Uaiyer

Response by Uaiyer 06:37, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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...For one, it would help if we could somehow pass the message along that some, if not all, contributors on Wikipedia are subject matter experts. For example, if people knew that a well-known marine biologist contributed articles, they would be motivated to head out to Wikipedia to look up content. For one, this will mean that we need to identify and highlight such subject matter experts - but after that, it would pretty much sell itself. This, I think, falls under the gamut of Approach 3 - A lot of people like to quote/reference work by well-known contributors in their fields and hosting such content (to the extent that it is not original research) would go a long way to improving its user base.

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Schlind

Response by Schlind 09:51, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Schlind auf die Hauptfrage

...Spendenaufrufe und andere Meldungen aus dem Seitenanfang der Lemmata entfernen, diese Bereiche verschwenden Platz und nerven...

Remove appeals and other messages from the top of the lemmas, these areas are wasting space and annoy ...

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...besonders wichtig: Ansätz 5 und 6; Ansatz 7: wie wär's mit CC NC??...

particularly important: Approaches 5 and 6; Approach 7: how about CC NC ??

27.154.56.162

Response by 27.154.56.162 11:30, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

27.154.56.162 對關鍵問題的回應

我用维基，他们看我皮肤丑，就不理我了，建议能够让新手也能使用Bootstrap来写皮肤

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I am an user of WMF's projects. My friends believe WMF projects' skins looks too ordinary. It is suggested to make an easier tool in order to enable new Wikipedians to create skins.

27.154.56.162 使用者的前2或前3優先順序（或分享您自己的想法）

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Filursiax

Response by Filursiax 11:54, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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The examples of "free, external content reuse" I have come across have been simple, uneditable copies of Wikipedia, often out-of-date - and often with slower access times. I can see no particular advantage to anyone in supporting this kind of reuse, but perhaps there are other kinds of reuse that are more creative? In any case, it might be useful to supply direct links to Wikipedia itself from reused copies. How about a header stating that "this content may be out-of-date; to see updated content, click here" or something similar. If the re-using site only copies parts of Wikepedia, perhaps it would be possible to ensure that links from the copied pages that lead to non-copied pages will automatically bring the user back to Wikipedia?

By the way, the interface I am forced to use when answering these questions is incredibly clunky, and doubtlessly will discourage many users from answering your questions. I suggest that next time you supply check-boxes and simple edit-boxes.

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3, 4, 6

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Patrickwooldridge

Response by Patrickwooldridge 11:57, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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...One wonders how much of the observed decline is related to disparagement of Wikipedia by teachers and other academics. I think an academic study documenting the relative accuracy of a Wikipedia search vs. using general web search engines might be instructive…

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...My first choice is cited above. My second choice would be Approach two. …

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Jtuom

Response by Jtuom 12:09, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Traffic amount is expected to stabilise in each country when the amount of encyclopedia use is saturated. More important is to look at country level traffic and compare that with the new potential. Also, there is a life cycle in the knowledge production when many pages become more or less ready, so the number of contributions needed is not constant in time.

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All approaches are reasonable but I vote for 1 and 3.

My own suggestion is that somehow Wikipedia should develop into a credible source of information. Although pupils use it all the time, teachers discourage its use. The number of high-quality pages should be increased and their credibility advertised.

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Helmutvan

Response by Helmutvan 12:12, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Helmutvan auf die Hauptfrage

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.Ansatz 2 und 3

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Doctor Franklin

Response by Doctor Franklin 12:30, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…Approach one is best. Pages need to permit different POV forks, label them if possible, to avoid censorship and POV pushing by problem editors.

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196.207.50.208

Response by 196.207.50.208 12:46, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach three

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May be try to find a way such that a wikimedia contribution of sufficient importance coming from another project allows a link to this project to be inserted in wikipedia after a validation process (as a partner link for instance). May be this idea is already applied.

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Jim2710

Response by Jim2710 13:45, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach two and six

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Starsareintherose

Response by Starsareintherose 14:28, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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I want Chinese wikipedia

@Starsareintherose: This already exists! See zh:中文维基百科. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:30, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Тамирлан Хасимиков

Response by Тамирлан Хасимиков 14:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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The best way to encourage traffic in my opinion is to clarify the benefit of Wiki to content creators/web-curators. As a content curator, the biggest value that I see in Wiki is a copyright features (or proof of origin). Beside the content itself, authors could add value to existing or new project where his/her additions (contributions) are subject to a constructive criticism (feedback) and a test of time. More importantly Wiki registers and tracks (the proof of origin) of its content, so from the view point of content creator his/her original contributions (in a way) are recognized in a public domain. So, to content creators for whom public recognition is a first priority in exchange for their valuable contributions to their fields of expertise, Wiki is the best suited platform. Greater number of content creators leads to a greater and more valuable content, which leads to a greater traffic.

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Approach One. Approach Two.

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Seedorfjohnny

Response by Seedorfjohnny 14:32, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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...hier schreiben... Sowohl APPs (also Endanwender-Tools) als auch APIs (die ich eher als Tools für Entwickler verstehe) müssen vorrangig weiterentwickelt und vielfältig variiert werden - also die Nummern 5 und 6. Dazu die Weitergabe an den Süden (also 4). 4 ist geradezu das A und O.

Both APPs (ie end user tools) as well as APIs (which I rather see as tools for developers) must be primarily developed and varied in many ways - so the numbers 5 and 6. And propagation to the south (ie 4). 4 is almost the A and O.

Fritz Jörn

Response by Fritz Jörn Fritz Jörn (talk) 14:33, 28 January 2016 (UTC) 14:33, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 6

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Kippelboy

Response by Kippelboy 14:35, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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• Make sure reusers mention the source while CCBYSA licensed are valid and credit invite Wikidata reusers to mentioned the source, although its' CCO, as a fair credit.
• Keep commmucating efforts on "Wiki(p/m)edia" the encyclopedia that YOU can edit. "Anyone seems > other ones will do it". Society is taking for granted than wikimedians will do it, we need to make clear that we are all wikimedians, that this is a public good maintained by all. "It's not that you use it, it is that is yours, so take care about it."
• Making edits easyer for everyone. Other crowdsourced websites (hotels, restaurants,...) have better crowdsourcing procedures: "add your pic!" messages or similar.
• Improving the overall UX.

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I don't agree with the general approaches mentioned here but if I had to choose, 6 and 1 would be my options

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H-stt

Response by H-stt 14:49, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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I do NOT believe that increasing traffic on WMF projects is the relevant issue for WMF goals. Making the sum of knowledge available to the world can be done by other means. Increasing traffic on WMF projects is the way to bring eyeballs to WMF's donation requests.

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2 7 (Create the content and provide a Free license. The users will come if they find it useful).

Prathaplal

Response by Prathaplal 16:22, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach seven

=== Prathaplal's suggestion

• By creating Wiki Communities in social networking sites

• Start a Wiki messaging service by connecting Wiki users

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7welders

Response by 7welders 16:32, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… Approach one, 5 and make it easier to find when searching on Google

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LIJIAYU141111

Response by LIJIAYU141111 16:47, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Corporate with local popular search engine, to encourage native speakers to share their information on the wikimedia as logged in, with improvement of the database for worldwide information, it will attract more people to join in and the translation will be much easier as well, then.

Mvk608

Response by Mvk608 16:54, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Mvk608 — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Подход второй: улучшить наше понимание того, как и почему наши пользователи обращаются к нашим проектам и остаются в них — чтобы мы могли ещё лучше удовлетворять их запросы и нужды. Подход пятый: развить и документировать наши API (программные интерфейсы приложения), чтобы дать возможность другим повторно использовать наши материалы и выстраивать свои собственные проекты с их включением. Подход шестой: улучшить мобильное приложение Википедии для повышения интенсивности его использования.

Machine translation; please help improve.

Second approach: to improve our understanding of how and why our users access to our projects and remain in them - so that we can even better meet their needs and demands. Approach Five: develop and document our API (application programming interfaces) to enable others to reuse our materials and build their own projects with their inclusion. Approach Six: improve Wikipedia mobile app to increase the intensity of its use.

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Areddesign

Response by Areddesign 17:07, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… approach 2, 3 and 6

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...write here… approach 2, 3 and 6

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Tim bates

Response by Tim bates 17:29, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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3 and 6. Might also simply ask GOOG FB MS to increase the wikipedia link size a little: it's a little too hard to find at present. Perhaps a wiki image instead?

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Ânes-pur-sàng

Response by Ânes-pur-sàng 17:30, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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ONE - SIX - SEVEN

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I woud like to propose creating for each article a STAR RATING (1-5) The public who use the facility can click how many stars they would give each article they see and read. The advantage is that the users can indicate what they think is good rather than what adjudicators/administrators think. Articles with 0 or 1 stars need improving or deleting, 4-5 stars could demonstrate what writers need to aim for. Clear the star rating annually, or better still just count say the 12 months votes or simpler still, last 100 votes, as articles change and may improve or get worse/out of date with time. When someone does a major rewrite update, it should be possible to clear the star rating to rid it of a poor star status and give the newly rewritten article a chance. It may also encourage additional people to improve/write articles.

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Argantoni

Response by Argantoni 17:35, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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...escriba aquí... 6 4

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Rcgardne

Response by Rcgardne 19:08, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Besides general knowledge, wiki's serve as very powerful tools for housing and organizing personal information (not necessarily appropriate for public consumption). A service offering a small, hosted private wiki (free or not free? perhaps an option?) has the following benefits:

• users must navigate to their private wiki page hosted under Wikimedia (improving traffic figures).
• users become familiar with editing using Wikimedia tools/APIs.
• Wikimedia can now communicate with these users (with questions like these, or asking donations, etc.)
• If limited by size, this does not conflict with Wikimedia's vision of open knowledge, since the Wikimedia API is already available for download and hosting on a private server. Making it easily accessible and hosted online just reaches more people and allows Wikimedia to communicate with them.

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Approach 5

Approach 6

Brownturkey

Response by Brownturkey 19:11, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… Approach two: Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs.

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...write here…

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Flukas

Response by Flukas 21:36, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Supporting cooperation with other projects (like osm.org)

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Approach five

Approach three

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Taperet

Response by Taperet 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Desde mi punto de vista, la poca o excasa difusión del contenido de Wikimedia es debido a que las fotos que se insertan deben estar libres de derechos de autor o haber sido donados con copyright libre por sus autores. Después de escribir bastantes artículos en español, puedo decir que Wikipedia no facilita en absoluto el legado de fotos por partes de sus autores a la comunidad. Yo mismo escribí un artículo donde la persona biografiada me cedía una foto propia para subirla a Wikipedia. Wikipedia la retiró sin consultarme previamente porque, imagino, pensó que la había tomado sin permiso y sin disponer de la cesión de los derechos de autor.

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From my point of view, little or poor dissemination of Wikimedia content is because the pictures that are inserted must be free of copyright or have been donated for free copyright by their authors. After writing many articles in Spanish, I can say that Wikipedia does not provide at all the legacy of photos of parts of its authors to the community. I myself wrote an article where I gave in person biographies own photo to upload it to Wikipedia. Wikipedia withdrew without first consulting me because, I imagine, he thought he had taken without permission and without having the assignment of copyright.

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Taperet (o comparte tu propia idea)

Facilitar el legado de fotos con copyright libre

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Facilitating the legacy of copyright free photos

Lingawakad

Response by Lingawakad 23:07, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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i occasionally discover new projects by looking through the backers/supporters of "activist" type groups on campaign pages, e.g. EFF, FSF, etc. perhaps more branding/outreach with the EFF or Creative Commons, for example.

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3, 6

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Solrezza

Response by Solrezza 00:19, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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1

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Solrezza (o comparte tu propia idea)

Mejorar el formato de edición en código a uno más amable con el usuario.

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Improve the code editing format to be more user friendly.

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Justinwon

Response by Justinwon 00:21, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Justinwon's response to the critical question

Approach one; I believe that approach one is user-customization similar to that of Youtube and Google's other services. If Wikimedia provides such service, like suggesting interesting articles to logged-in users, those users will be able to access previously unknown areas of study, thus making wikimedia a much more visited and interesting place.

A shortcoming of this approach would be that people with customization might be "stuck in their own heads" or isolated in their interested areas only. This may result in limited knowledge for many people. However, this can be resolved by including a "suggest" feature, which would allow users to explore some other articles that are not of their previously defined areas of interests.

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Other approaches seems excellent, but they are not as impactful as the first one is. But combining approach six and one would yield a good result, as did youtube's personalized application allowed it to grow more. Smartphones are personal computers. Personalized wikimedia will fit well into the mini PCs of many people.

Ququ

Response by Ququ 01:13, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Ququ — ответ на насущные вопросы

Need to improve the quality of content on popular topics.

Ququ — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

7 A utopian proposal.

All of the mentioned above methods are important but they are limited to local goals and can be resolved within a few months. I believe that the main aim for Wikipedia would be to grow a new type of people who can think in terms of the Wikipedia's rules. Wikipedia should look for help of governments to implement new classes about Wikipedia at schools. It is better to attract an editor than a reader, and if Wikipedia can bring up an editor he/she will become a contributor for decades. As a local goal, I think, more work should be done to attract students and retired people.

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Ulti.paladin

Response by Ulti.paladin 01:35, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Ulti.paladin — ответ на насущные вопросы

повысить качество контента

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improve the quality of content

Ulti.paladin — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

убрать шовинистов и псевдоисториков. наладить обсуждение

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remove chauvinists and pseudo-historians.

establish discussion

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Shaktaya

Response by Shaktaya 01:53, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Increase awareness and use of Wikipedia projects in two Global South countries- A traditional approach to promoting a product by advertising through posters. A selection of posters created by Wikipedia users could promote the use of wikipedia in a variety of languages and aesthetics. As an artist myself, I have seen the benefits from a successful poster campaign. Uniting an international community of users through art could bring new users to the site. Create a call for entry to encourage artists to create posters, add a theme for the work to follow, choose and publish the best work. I could see a poster on the street that says "Explore the world from your seat" followed by an exciting, creative version of Benjamin Franklin. I think this traditional, "old school" approach may be something progressive for the digital era and for intellectual sites like Wikipedia to be engaging and approachable.

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...write here…

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Connor Behan

Response by Connor Behan 02:30, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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There's only so much WMF can do to attract users. After that it's all up to the editors to make it a useful resource.

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1 and 4. This must be truly interational.

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Cannonmc

Response by Cannonmc 03:41, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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I wish I understood what you are talking about

Soy Juampayo

Response by Soy Juampayo 03:44, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Soy Juampayo a la pregunta crítica

No lo sé realmente.

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I do not really know.

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Soy Juampayo (o comparte tu propia idea)

Elijo las opciones tres, cinco y seis.

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I choose options three, five and six.

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Splurben

Response by Splurben 03:54, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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I only want Wikipedia information. I completely disregard commercial sources for most reference information.

Often in a Google search, the Wikipedia result for a search doesn't appear on the first page of search results; instead we get a link to some other "endorsed" pseudo-reference that presents copious advertising or requires a paid membership to actually view the information (which has probably been scraped from Wikipedia). Google being a commercial entity presents a problem as they profit from prioritising other endorsed commercial sources; however Google's search algorithms are highly (usually the most) effective.

Many users blithely click the first top link and continue from there without considering the source.

I add 'wikipedia' to many of my Google searches, as an "Open Source and Free" evangelist, this is part of the conundrum. My Wikipedia use has increased in the period in which the use has declined. How do we prioritise Wikipedia in large search engine results?

Splurben's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Limit the use of scrapers as opposed to those who seek information, which is likely opposed to key concepts of the free use of Wikipedia. How to promote understanding by users that they should consider Wikipedia to be their best option for reference and encyclopaedic information.

Translated pages for many topics aren't complete; promote more completed translation.

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SvenDK

Response by SvenDK 05:30, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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From work experience in marketing, it is important to understand the problem wel before implementing a solution. I had a recent dicussion with some university Computer Science majors. Only a few attempted to contribute, but were disgusted/frustrated/annoyed about how others prefered to distroy their contribution, rather than assist in getting it right. That would indicate that the tools are not the problem, but the learning curve on proper content for a new article. Having it right the first time also means that the people who review, need to provide less corrections. Yes there is documentation, but it is lengthy. So how can we guide people who write their first contributions in achieving proper quality from the start. How can we distinguishe genuine beginners from vandals, and help them as a community to get things right fast? Maybe the editor can already give some automated guidance by parcing the texts using some heuristics.

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Approach three and two

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Akasurde

Response by Akasurde 06:10, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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I would love to see Approach one and six

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...write here…

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Kiyoshiendo

Response by Kiyoshiendo 06:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Use your hefty reputation as the world's best encyclopedia to educate people of your academic and cultural worth, and appeal to people who are more likely to stay and contribute to your projects as opposed to rejecting it as a bundle of lies.

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Preference in order: approach 1, approach 3, approach 2.

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Tomonkey4

Response by Tomonkey4 07:25, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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It seems to me that Approaches 2 and 3 would work well together to bring more people to the products and then keep them there. Approach 5 I think would actually work against bringing users to Wikimedia products.

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Approach 2 Approach 3

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Flyingfischer

Response by Flyingfischer 07:52, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach three, Approach five, Approach one

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Do finance independent research about WP to answer questions like these.

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Cangaran

Response by Cangaran 10:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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additional content formats, increasing language coverage, Improve Wikipedia mobile apps to increase use. Approach one, Approach two, Approach six

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Approach one, Approach two, Approach six

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SMcCandlish

Response by SMcCandlish 12:48, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Option One is clearly the goal. Probably the main factor is that WP looks like it was designed ca. 2001. It needs a large variety of "skins"/"themes", and a default one that is minimal. Take a strong design cue from mobile apps.

I don't think this section was thought out very clearly. Two and six are steps of one; five is the opposite of a solution to the problem but will worsen it; four is a non sequitur in the context.

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1. Two leads to one
2. One is the goal
3. Six is part of how to get there.

Concrete new suggestion (in addition, not as an alternative to the above): Fund development of an easy-to-use (for developers) skins API, so that there evolves a themes library like that for the WordPress blog. Yes, THAT diverse. People should be able to develop "frames" around or "lens" onto WMF content (or any MediaWiki content for that matter) that are radically different.

 — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  12:48, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Stephan Schulz

Response by Stephan Schulz 12:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Stephan Schulz's response to the critical question

I'm not sure this question is well-stated. There are at least two different question hidden in it: First, how do we maximise availability of the knowledge Wikipedia provides, i.e. how do we maximise the number of people who use Wikipedia as consumers. For this, traffic to our sites is entirely irrelevant - if other repackage our content to cater to particular demographics, that's fine. The second question is "how do we maximise editor recruitment" - for that, it is important that users are aware that content they consume is from Wikipedia (a branding question) and, realistically, also that it is easy to contribute. For this goal, direct visitors are better than indirect consumers, because we can at least try to offer direct visitors easy access to editing tools.

Of course (or at least in my opinion) the second question is really only a proxy question - do we really want to maximise the number of editors, or do we want to maximise the production of quality content? Maybe a "quality over quantity" approach to editor recruitment is at least worth a thought. Google makes it quite hard to contribute to the company - they have high barriers in the recruitment process because they want the best, not the most, engineers. I'm not sure that universally lowering the entry barriers to Wikipedia necessarily improves the productivity.

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• Approach four certainly - but why only two countries, and which countries?
• Approach five
• Approach two - but also note that we have (or should have) certain fixed goals - free knowledge, easily available to everyone. If users come for different reasons (i.e. to promote their products, or they ideologies) we should not invest resources in those irrelevant goals - in particular not for goals that conflict with the main mission.

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Seescedric

Response by Seescedric 13:19, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Seescedric auf die Hauptfrage

Wenn wäre 1 ab besten. Aber unten meine Idee

If at all, 1 would be the best. But below my idea

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Seescedric

Das System vom Englisch Wikipedia mit der weißheit der vielen nutzen und auch das Artikel man ausführlich macht z.b ein Artikel zu einer Serie das auch was erzählen werden darf wie es im Ausland ist.Oder zu Songs eine Charts Tabelle man machen darf. Sprich Das man Wikipedia versucht zu vergrößern

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The system from the English Wikipedia use with the whiteness of the many and also the products you make in detail, for example, an article in a series that also what may be told as it is abroad. Or a table charts one can make songs. Say that they are trying to increase Wikipedia

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Kuskondu

Response by Kuskondu 13:20, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Kuskondu — ответ на насущные вопросы

На мой взгляд, есть проблема доверия материалам. Зачастую образовательные учреждения не рекомендуют использовать Википедию как окончательный источник информации. Возможно, один из не главных, но дополнительных путей решения проблемы уменьшения обращений может стать программа по укреплению доверия Википедии как источнику информации.

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In my opinion, there is a problem of trust material. Often the educational institutions do not recommend the use of Wikipedia as the ultimate source of information. Perhaps one is not important, but additional ways to deal with appeals reduction program can be a confidence-building Wikipedia as a source of information.

Kuskondu — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

2, 6

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Muhittin çiftçi

Response by Muhittin çiftçi 14:43, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Muhittin çiftçi kullanıcısının kritik soruya yanıtı

6 madde mantıklı ve uygulanabilir görünüyor.

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Approach 6 seems logical and feasible.

Muhittin çiftçi kullanıcısının seçtiği 2-3 (veya kendi fikinizi yazın)

eğer kullanıcı tarafından yüklenilen yada kendi kullanıcı alt sayfasında tyapılan işlem ve ya değişklikler kullanıcı haberdar edilmeden değiştilirse bu sonderece tik dışı olacaktır. ve sonuç olarak ilgi ava yardımlaşma gelişirme destekği azalmasına neden olabilir.

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[tyapıl] transactions incurred by the user if the user or its sub-pages and will be out for a change or if [teak sonderece] to modification without the user aware of this. and helping me [destekg] develops as a result, it may lead to reduced persecution interest.

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Antur

Response by Antur 15:37, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Antur a la pregunta crítica

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Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Antur (o comparte tu propia idea)

Dos, Cuatro

Two, four

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احمد الليبي

Approach eight: Embrace amusing vandalism rather than trying to fight it. احمد الليبي (talk) 13:19, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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139.0.167.161

Response by 139.0.167.161 15:54, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Negative SEO??? we think that annoying us

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İplikci67

Response by İplikci67 16:24, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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...SIX, FIVE, TWO…

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Poupou l'quourouce

Response by Poupou l'quourouce 17:54, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Poupou l'quourouce auf die Hauptfrage

Ich vermute, dass ein Großteil der Leser schlicht mit den Antworten aus dem Google-Knowledge-Graph zufrieden ist und den Wikipedia-Artikel nicht mehr anklickt. Daran wird sich durch uns wenig ändern lassen, wenn sich nicht Google dazu bewegen lässt, etwas zu ändern. Google wird daran kein Interesse haben, denn Google kann nur Werbung schalten=Geld verdienen, wenn die Leser bei Google bleiben, und dort weitersuchen. Ein Leser, der sich von der PLattform Google zur Plattform Wikipedia wegbewegt und sich dort durch Wikilinks klickt, ist für Google "verloren".

I suspect that the majority of readers are satisfied simply by the replies from the Google Knowledge Graph and no longer click on Wikipedia articles. This is nothing that can be changed by us significantly, unless Google can be persuaded to change something. Google doesn't have any interest, since Google can only run advertisement = earn money if readers stay with Google and continue browsing there. A reader who moves away from the platform Google to the platform Wikipedia and click there by Wikilinks is "lost" for Google.

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Format entwickeln, dass es für Google attraktiv macht, den Artikel selbst oder jedenfalls Teile davon einzublenden, so dass der Leser darin Wikilinks anklicken kann und auch direkt auf die Wikipedia gelangen kann.

Develop formatting that makes it attractive for Google, to display the article itself or at least parts thereof, so that the reader can click on wikilinks and can also directly go to the Wikipedia.

Jzsj

Response by Jzsj 18:15, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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How "to encourage use"

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I find people turned off by the sharp criticism of their beliefs, often on the basis of a single "researcher" or single perspective that shows little respect for others. An example would be where the first thing listed under "Mother Teresa" is "Criticism of Mother Teresa". The book cited is clearly arguing one side of a case with little sympathy or presentation of the other side or the deeply held religious beliefs which the book's author denigrates. After an article that runs over 80 lines only 2 lines are given to "responses to criticism".

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Joyce779

Response by Joyce779 18:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 2 and 6.

Julius1990

Response by Julius1990 18:53, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Julius1990 auf die Hauptfrage

This line of thinking is suiting a Sillicon Valley Tec Company, but not the Wikimedia Foundation. Especially in times in which the technical environment (Apps, Mobile Use etc.) just allows fragments of information to be consumed by the users it is even more important that the Wikimedia projects keep offering knowledge (information in context). It's important for the WMF to understand that the fact that someone who just wants to know the birth date of Elvis and gets provided this easily by Google shouldn't lead to giving up the goal to collect and provide knowledge. Yes, maybe the number of usage will drop a bit, but again, we are not a Tec Company, we don't need to please shareholders. And when it ultimately would mean some less funds by donors (then the WMF staff simply needs to drop again a bit, what won't be any bad to anyone beside the people in Frisco). But I don't see this danger really since even with dropping numbers the donations grew ever more, even to the bad of the movement in my opinion. So my idea for you: Make a reality check of what you are and who you serve, reboot your thinking and if you want to work for Google, Apple, Adobe or Uber simply quit in the WMF and apply there and don't turn the WMF into one of them. I write this in full knowledge that you people of the WMF in San Francisco anyway don't give a shit and this will end up in some kind of report about which noone will care over there.

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see above.

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KeddyEmmanuel

Response by KeddyEmmanuel 19:28, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach six is of vital importance.

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Giudark

Response by Giudark 23:00, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Coinvolgere maggiormente gli utenti nell'opera di stesura delle pagine. Sicuramente migliorare l'applicazione mobile, ma anche riconoscere dei meriti nel contribuire al progetto, per esempio attribuendo punteggi e livelli, medaglie, ricompense, nuove funzioni.

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Involve users in the work of drafting of the pages. Definitely improve the mobile application, but also recognize the merits in contributing to the project, for example, giving marks and levels, medals, awards, new features.

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2 - 6 - 7: Come detto, ricompensare i contributi proficui degli utenti con punteggi e una sorta di progressione

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2 - 6 - 7: As mentioned, offset the profitable contributions of users with scores and a kind of progression

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Feldo - MediaWiki Skin: moving out from Vector

Response by Feldo 23:28, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approche 2.

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(French)

Even small CSS changes can make a big difference.

Je place l'approche 1 en 2e position, mais comme les exemples ne correspondent pas vraiment, j'ajoute l'approche 7 en 3e. J'estime qu'il faudrait en effet qu'on creuse le reproche sur l'apparence « moche » du site. J'obtiens personnellement cette réflexion assez souvent, et je pense qu'il faudrait vraiment se pencher sur un changement d'apparence (Skin, pour MediaWiki) de l'encyclopédie en la mettant à la page au niveau apparence par rapport au top 10 les sites les plus visités au monde (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). En effet, bien que l'apparence des sites sur Internet dépende de modes, elle influence probablement l'envie de gens d'aller oui ou non plus loin que le résumé récupéré sur Wikipédia par Google (et qu'ils obtiennent souvent après une recherche). De plus, la version bureau de Wikipédia n'est pas du tout adaptée à la largeur des écrans actuels et ne prend pas non plus en compte les personnes affichant ces pages sur de petites largeurs (soit à cause de soucis d'affichage avec la version mobile, soit parce qu'ils ont plusieurs fenêtres côte-à-côte).

Bref, on ne peut pas rester indéfiniment avec Vector, et je pense qu'il faudrait étudier avec attention de quelles façons exactement les visiteurs de Wikipédia sont sensibles à l’esthétique et au design de MediaWiki (tout en envisageant tout de même d'enfin changer d'apparence).

(English) If you want an English translation of my ideas, please ask :)

@Feldo: I've added a slightly-corrected machine translation, but please do improve or replace it, as desired. :-) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:11, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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I place approach 1 in 2nd position but as the examples do not fit really, I added approach 7 in the third. I think we should dig into the criticism about the "ugly" looks of the site. Personally, I get this in real life about Wikipedia quite often, and I think it really should consider a change of appearance (Skin, for MediaWiki) of the encyclopedia by upgrading the site look compared to the top 10 the most visited websites in the world (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Indeed, although the appearance of sites on the Internet depends of the mode/trends, it probably influences the desire of people to go further (or not) than the introductive summaries recovered on Wikipedia via Google (and that they often get after a search). In addition, the Wikipedia desktop version is not at all adapted to the width of the current screens and does not take into account either the people posting these pages on small widths (either due to display problems with the Mobile version or because they have several side-by-side windows).

In short, we cann't keep indefinitely Vector, and I think we should study carefully the ways in which visitors Wikipedia are sensitive to the aesthetics and design from MediaWiki (while still considering to finally change the appearance).

Fixed most of the mistakes and added a visual example of CSS customisation. Feldo (talk) 22:14, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Outlier59

Response by Outlier59 00:10, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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In Wikisource, make search function more friendly for looking up works by author name, title words, approximate year, topic. Do not display individual pages.

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These are suggestions for English Wikisource

1. Remove Random work, Random author, and Random transcription from sidebar. Replace with specific search functions.
2. If a work's Index Page contains an LCCN number, automatically put the work in the appropriate LCCN categories/portal
3. In Author search from sidebar, do not display "Author:" before the author's name, just display the author's name
4. Replace Main Page header with random book covers or title pages from works validated during past six months or so
5. On Community Portal page, remove count of "registered users" versus how many users have recently made edits. Right now I see "Wikisource is an online library of free-content texts. Wikisource is maintained by a community of 2,745,620 registered users—348 of them have made edits in the last thirty days." It essentially says that almost all "registered users" are not active on Wikisource. Bad marketing.

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Mitom07

Why use such a great company with begging money? Company policy must be based on the source of the money, It's nice that all the information I get from users but also need to prosper and have their own research and that no money is not, what next? Without its own research in several sciences can not do, the more we lose credit company, I am for it to Wikipedia build on a search engine, or started very fast to use on your site or advertising will be too late, and in 2018 wikipedia nobody will know. PR Michal Tomeček

Manuelgdiaz

Response by Manuelgdiaz 01:37, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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improve apps wikipedia movile. thats y people love the app store

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ILAN CO LTD

Increase frequency of use and number of users by adapting user experience to their needs (this may result in additional content formats, making more of Wikimedia content easier to find, increasing language coverage, etc.).

RikardT

Response by RikardT 09:51, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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I would suggest approaches 2, 4 and 3 in that order.

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Иван Запорожец

Response by Иван Запорожец 10:15, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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...Подход шестой: улучшить мобильное приложение Википедии для повышения интенсивности его использования. Подход второй: улучшить наше понимание того, как и почему наши пользователи обращаются к нашим проектам и остаются в них — чтобы мы могли ещё лучше удовлетворять их запросы и нужды. Подход седьмой: архивирование ZIP

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... Approach Six: improve Wikipedia mobile app to increase the intensity of its use. Second approach: to improve our understanding of how and why our users access to our projects and remain in them - so that we can even better meet their needs and demands. The approach of the seventh: ZIP archive

Chaos4tu

Response by Chaos4tu 11:31, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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The 6 approaches suggested seem to be out of date. The newer generations are not concerned with research, instead they are interested in themselves. If wikipedia wants to increase its audience, make wikipedia up-to-date with egocentric concerns.

Great contribution and meets other observations to the point. BravoDrahtloser (talk) 15:13, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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Geronimo-3080

Response by Geronimo-3080 11:36, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Mi idea: contribuir con información a Wikimedia sobre temas varios y solicitando datos

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My idea: to contribute to Wikipedia information on various topics and requesting data

Gracenmo

Response by Gracenmo 11:47, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Denis Arnaud

Response by Denis.arnaud 12:01, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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• Foster the contribution of new editors, for instance by mentoring them. In my experience, quite a few friends and colleagues, much qualified and respected in their knowledge fields, began to contribute to Wikipedia with enthusiasm. But their enthusiasm was perceived as vandalism, therefore turning them away from Wikipedia contribution. That aggressive stance towards new editors seems to me a big issue for the overall Wikipedia quality and trustworthiness image. It is important that "nice" mentors follow up with the new editors, in order to help them overcome the hurdle of the aggressive Wikipedians. Wikipedia would win a lot new quality contributions.
• [French]Encourager la contribution en accompagnant les nouveaux éditeurs et éditeurs potentiels. Dans mon expérience personnelle, de nombreux amis et collègues, très qualifiés, ont commencé à contribuer à Wikipedia avec beaucoup d'enthousiasme. Mais leur enthousiasme de débutant éditeur a été perçu comme du vandalisme, rebutant ainsi ces nouveaux éditeurs. Cette agression contre l'enthousiasme des nouveaux éditeurs me semble vraiment une calamité de Wikipedia. Il me parait vraiment important que des "gentils" mentors accompagnent les nouveaux venus, afin de les aider à franchir le cap de l'agression des vétérans. Wikipedia y gagnerait de nombreuses éditions de qualité.

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• Approche 1: Accroître la fréquence d'utilisation et le nombre d'utilisateur en adaptant l'expérience utilisateur aux besoins (cela peut se traduire par des formats de contenu additionnels, rendre davantage de contenu Wikimedia plus facile à trouver, augmenter la couverture linguistique, etc.).
• Approche 5: Faciliter la réutilisation de notre contenu et la création de nouveaux produits en améliorant et en documentant nos API (interfaces de programmation d'application)
• Approche 4: Accroître la sensibilisation et l'utilisation des projets Wikimedia dans deux pays du sud.

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Lumos3

Response by Lumos3 15:10, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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• Reaching out to those with poor English comprehension - Make the lede of each article align more with Simple English Wikipedia so that the broadest levels of comprehension can be supported from our main English encyclopedia. We could also put a link in to the Simple English article at the end of the lede so some can fork in that direction if they wish, while others can continue reading the main article. This will reach out to native English speakers with poor comprehension skills ( and we all do in some subjects) as well as support those who have learned English as a foreign language.

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Atsme

Response by Atsme 15:14, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach two will help clarify and validate the proposal/suggestions I emailed to WMF. This approach is not only necessary, it should be the first step.

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As I explained in the email, accuracy is of the utmost importance. Far too many readers are being told that WP is not trustworthy, and that it provides inaccurate information and/or information that has a political bent, or blatant POV. The suggestions in my email will certainly help resolve some of the major issues if not eliminate them all together.

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Rossrob0083

Response by Rossrob0083 15:26, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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approach seven: Pair with Google. Google is what everyone used to search information. You potentially would be pairing the biggest search engine with one of the biggest hubs for information.

Ioan-Mihai Gale I

Response by Ioan-Mihai Gale I 16:24, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach six

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Approach four and three

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AnselmiJuan

Response by AnselmiJuan 16:24, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Bueno, no veo claro las acciones de efecto inmediato que podrían adoptarse para cambiar sustantiva y rápidamente este estado de cosas, pero sí veo posibilidades a través de acciones con efectos a mediano y largo plazo. Véase. A través de apoyos económicos y en conferencistas y en materiales didácticos y otros, dar respaldo a grupos locales para que de una y otra forma se inserte Wikipedia en los distintos niveles educativos, desde enseñanza primaria, media, y técnica, hasta todos los niveles terciarios y posgrado que se pueda alcanzar, y orientar acciones tanto hacia el alumnado como hacia los docentes y capacitadores y también hacia egresados. Mucha gente ya tiene el hábito de consultar Wikipedia cuando quiere profundizar sobre un concepto o una temática, y eso está muy bien, pero en muchos casos son consultas a veces puntuales y breves. No mucha gente utiliza Wikipedia en forma regular y sistemática durante sus estudios, o para impartir enseñanza, o como ayuda regular a sus diferentes profesiones, y eso pasa entre otras cosas porque el común de la gente no sabe cómo hacer eso, y en muchos casos ni siquiera sabe ni lo más básico sobre la edición wikipedista, y sobre los principios básicos a seguir en los aportes que se realicen a Wikipedia. Y así seguiremos, teniendo en los distintos países y las distintas áreas, apenas un pequeño grupito de wikipedistas de buen nivel y buena dedicación. Si no hay un apoyo específico en cursillos de introducción a Wikipedia y en aplicaciones, en distintos centros de estudio o centros de desempeño profesional, no lograremos un cambio sustantivo. Pero si se conjugan apoyos varios de la Fundación a buenos grupos locales de actuación, los cambios que se consigan a mediano plazo pueden llegar a ser muy buenos y sustantivos.

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Well, I see immediately clear actions to be taken to effect substantive change quickly and this state of things, but I do see possibilities through actions with effects in the medium and long term. See. Through financial support and lecturers and other teaching materials and give support to local groups for both forms of Wikipedia is inserted at different educational levels, from primary, intermediate, and technical, to all tertiary levels and graduate students that can be accessed, and direct actions both to students and to teachers and trainers and also to graduates. Many people already have the habit of consulting Wikipedia when you want to elaborate on a concept or theme, and that is fine, but in many cases consultations are sometimes specific and brief. Not many people use Wikipedia regularly and systematically during their studies or for teaching or as different professions regulate their help, and that happens partly because ordinary people do not know how to do that, and in many cases or even you know the basics about the wikipedista edition, and the basic steps in the contributions made to Wikipedia principles. And so we will continue, taking in the different countries and the different areas, just a little group of Wikipedians good standard and great dedication. If there is no specific support in introductory courses Wikipedia and applications, in different centers of study or vocational performance, we will not achieve a substantial change. But if several of the Foundation to support good local performance groups are combined, the changes are achieved in the medium term may become very good and substantive.

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• El conocimiento y uso de Wikipedia debe incrementarse mucho en especificos niveles educativos en ciudades o regiones, sin despreciar tampoco las posibilidades de la educación no presencial a distancia.
• Hay grupos profesionales como ser los bibliotecólogos y los docentes de enseñanza secundaria, que están en general muy motivados con Wikipedia, para usarlo de diversas formas, pero después de llegar a esa sensibilización, poca cosa se hace en más, por falta de capacitación, y/o de tiempo, y/o de ideas. Aquí es donde deben encontrarse formas de intervención y estímulo, que sean agentes de cambio en esos sectores.
• Hay cuestiones como los vandalismos que Wikipedia convive con ellos pero convive mal, pues los vandalismos continúan e incluso se incrementan. Hay demasiados artículos en Wikipedia que tienen falencias en cuanto a referencias, o incluso presentación y redacción, y muchas otras cosas, y eso deteriora la imagen de Wikipedia y disminuye el interés por las wikiconsultas. Hay que intentar resolver estas cuestiones, y apuntar a nivel de excelencia en los artículos, más artículos buenos, más artículos destacados, etc.
• Hay una experiencia en Wikimedia-Argentina que recién se ha iniciado, pero que ha dado buenos resultados y que ha apoyado de momento a unos pocos participantes a lograr niveles de excelencia en algunos artículos; me refiero a es:Wikipedia:Liga de Autores. Iniciativas de este tipo deberían ser más apoyadas y promovidas.

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* Knowledge and use of Wikipedia should be increased greatly in specific educational levels in cities or regions, but also despise the possibilities of distance education distance.

* There are professional groups such as librarians and teachers in secondary schools, which are generally highly motivated to Wikipedia, to use it in various ways, but after coming to this awareness, not much is done on, for lack of training, and / or time, and / or ideas. This is where intervention should find ways and encouragement, they are agents of change in these sectors.

* There are issues such as vandalism to Wikipedia lives with them but lives worse, because the vandalism continue and even increase. Too many articles in Wikipedia that shortcomings in terms of references, or even presentation and writing, and many other things, and that deteriorates the image of Wikipedia and decreased interest in wikiconsultas. We must try to resolve these issues, and target level of excellence in the articles, more good articles, leading articles, etc.

* There is a Wikimedia-Argentina experience that has just begun, but has been successful and has supported for now a few participants to achieve levels of excellence in some items; I mean :es:Wikipedia:Authors League. Such initiatives should be supported and promoted.

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Gungniir Loruse

Response by Gungniir Loruse 17:26, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Julien Houle

Response by Julien Houle 17:54, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Ankit roy 896

Response by Ankit roy 896 17:55, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… globlisation of nternet faclity and awareness is best method but there need a cheaper source to get this facility

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MrScoville

Response by MrScoville 18:43, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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2, 3, 6

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Furfur

Response by Furfur 19:49, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Die Professionalität von Wikipedia muss noch mehr erhöht werden. Beispielsweise die vielgelesene "In den Nachrichten". Da müssen dann einfach wirklich aktuelle Nachrichten hinein und die Rubrik muss zeitnah aktualisiert werden. Die Performance der Wikimedia-Server muss erhöht werden. Es gibt hier doch immer wieder Serverausfälle, wie auf sonst keiner anderen Internetseite. Die Zuverlässigkeit der Angaben sollte durch ein zentrales Datenmanagement (Wikidata) erhöht werden. Man müsste mehr Autoren aus dem akademischen Unfeld gewinnen um die Qualität einiger Fachartikel zu erhöhen.

The professionality of Wikipedia still has to be increased. E.g., the frequently read "In the news". Here, real up-to date news should be presented and the column should be kept up-to-date all the time. The performance of the Wikimedia servers must be improved. Wikipedia is the only website where I experience occasional connection error problems. The reliability of wikipedia data should be improved by the use of reviewed central data repositories. More authors from the academic community should be recruited to improve the quality of articles about specific topics.

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PASSENGER93

help others to create essays about what the want to express & share with audians

Morgenm15

Response by Morgenm15 20:15, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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You could improve th apps so that there is a stronger emphasis on the article of the day, and a random article function to help people learn more about random things.

Monsoonique

Response by Monsoonique 20:36, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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I believe Approach three is important to broaden reach on myriad devices and platforms

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Appoint a special Ombudsman (or woman), or a team of such people, to liaison with wealthy donors. I'm thinking the likes of Bloomberg, Soros, Gates, Bono, Jolie, Oprah etc.

Sell these extremely wealthy individuals on the incredible value of Wikipedia worldwide. Their tax deductible donations would be pooled for a permanent AdWords campaign (Display & Text) across cyberspace. Some of the best advertising agencies could be asked to write and design the ad campaigns. The ads would particularly encourage young people to visit, explore and write in Wikipedia.

This is essential to correct declining literacy, spelling and comprehension of the written word as mobile device ecosystems reduce detailed knowledge to posts and snapshots.

In light of this I believe Approach three is important.

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Imterus

Response by Imterus 21:06, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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1, 2, 3.

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Strainu

Response by Strainu 21:35, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 1

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Approach 1, 3, 6

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Lacipac

Response by Lacipac 21:57, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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5

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3, 2

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Wfoj3

Response by Wfoj3 22:08, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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This is the first question -If the reach/ usage of Wikipedia is really such a high priority - need a more outward approach to determine best path.

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...1 & 4 & 7 My 7- under #1 adapting to their needs some have a lot of details, and depth - as user comes to those articles they choose the level of information the want to how much article the get- general level , in-depth high school level, or college level information. Go to next topic area (Communities)

AlexanderVK

Response by AlexanderVK 22:33, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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I'm not sure that large traffic is the goal for Wikimedia. I hope that making the data in Wikimedia projects more qualitative and more understandable should bring more users.

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From the potential approaches I would chose numbers 2 and 3.

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Wugapodes

Response by Wugapodes 22:37, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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I believe a large problem in the reach is that the decline in traffic coincides with the rise in mobile browsing. There are of course other factors, but the lack of significant development of mobile apps for both readers and contributors reduces traffic to the site and prevents retention of new editors.

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I believe approach six will be most beneficial in the short term and approach two will help to inform future decisions in the long term.

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Tyke1313

Response by Tyke1313 23:51, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…Approach two is one I support because there needs to better understanding to encourage others to stay on the projects but the person needs also need to be meet. Approach five is an excellence idea as the information learned from Wiki should be shared and be encourage other to build their own products.

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...write here… I think more colleges need to allow the student to use the information from Wiki for their school work assignment since a lot of colleges don't recognize Wiki as a reliable source since anyone can edit the information. I would suggest that a person who is a member with Wiki should be the only ones editing information where you put a box they can click on and email a Wiki person who verifies the information is correct and then makes the correction or adds the information in. I would put one person in charge of this area and let advertise on Indeed for volunteers (this gives the person experience for their resume), so each person who volunteers will be given assignments from the person who is in charge of this area. The volunteers gain experience which will in turn help them in their writing career, editing career and researching.

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Md Shahid Hossain Rocky is a real person and he also a founder of Bangladesh Wikipedia that help world wide people to get information about Bangladesh. Why should not be Md Shahid Hossain Rocky page here?

Kenavologos

Response by Kenavologos 01:27, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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3, 6, 1

Shock Brigade Harvester Boris

Response by Shock Brigade Harvester Boris 03:08, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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1, 2, 6

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Etamni

Response by Etamni 04:24, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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While all of these approaches have merit, I think that approaches one, two, and six, are each especially critical to encouraging traffic on Wikipedia's projects, while still following our other mandates.

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An equally important approach is to make the attempt to understand who is not using Wikipedia projects, and to understand why they are not doing so. This insight will likely lead to a much better understanding of what needs to be improved in order to make these projects appealing to a larger audience.

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CrisBCT

Response by CrisBCT 05:14, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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two and three

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MontanaShepherdess

Response by MontanaShepherdess 05:43, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… I like 1,2 and 4

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Slowtony

Response by Slowtony 05:59, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Wikimedia should actively promote traffic to its projects through social media, in educational and topic-specific forums, and by producing simple promotional and how-to literature that can be printed and used by supporters. This promotion needs to include affirmative information about the benefits of collaborative content creation similar to the successful advocacy from the open source code community.

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Approach seven: Directly address the active depreciation of Wikipedia as a reference tool by middle school and high school teachers in the United States with an affirmative promotion program that targets both youth and educators. (The theory is that if one can win the battle in the early school years, those students will overwhelm the academics, and they will themselves become academics soon enough.) The promotion program should explain how Wikipedia aids the development of critical thinking about the validity of Internet sources with its own comments to contributors about materials that need improvement. At the same time, make a conscious effort to increase the use of external citations in Wikipedia content. While this may decrease the quality of citations as a whole, it will have the benefit of making each article a better "link farm" for further research. Perhaps a marketing slogan could help (like "Wikipedia First!").

Approach three: It is difficult to believe that significant use of Wikimedia content on external platforms fully conforms to the CC BY-SA and GFDL licenses. Wikimedia needs to determine if the decrease in traffic volume is due to the presentation of Wikimedia content on external platforms. If that is the case, the affirmative encouragement described in Approach three may need to be supplemented with legal discouragement of non-conforming uses.

Approach four: Global South countries that have open societies and significant population could provide significant traffic improvement for Wikimedia. One of the keys to increased national penetration will be a critical mass of article topics of specific national interest. This will require recruiting national contributors. While India is the largest Global South country with an open society and includes many English speakers, it may also be the most difficult to penetrate because of its sheer size. Mexico comes to mind because its Spanish is closely aligned with the language as it is used in the Southwest United States, and because many of its local national subjects will be of interest to Spanish speakers in the US (who may also become authoritative contributors). Brazil is the second country that comes to mind because of its size and its increasing business and social interchange with the US. For significant penetration, content will need to be in Portuguese, despite the increasing use of English by the young and educated in urban areas. Go to next topic area (Communities)

Deeprajchhetri

Response by Deeprajchhetri 06:45, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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There are articles which could be merged with another article(making half + half = 1)

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In present the world is getting smart. Technology are in high demand, new devices come every now and then. 1. First thing is Improve your Mobile App.

  Make the app light and effective with all feature present in it like in computer.
  Make the App for all device including Android, Windows and Apple

2. Increase Awareness

  I agree with India because it is a developing country and it needs resource and people are willing to help for a cause.

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PNLL

Response by PNLL 08:56, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Mieux distinguer les contenus "grand public" des contenus "experts". Être certain que tout article comporte un volet "grand public"

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Better distinguish contained "general public" content "experts". Be certain that any article has a "general public" component

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2

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Ricklaman

Response by Ricklaman 10:08, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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I am concerned that many of my academic colleagues tell students not to cite Wikipedia. The result is often that students read Wikipedia articles (using them without attribution) in order to understand a topic, then look for conventional academic sources to use and cite. If there were some way to confront that prejudice head on…

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Approaches three and one

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Robberd77

Response by Robberd77 10:11, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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...approach 2 and 5

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Adam Zábranský

Response by Adam Zábranský 10:11, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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4, 1, 3

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High-storian

Response by High-storian 11:21, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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I honestly believe the larger picture concerning Wikipedia's decline in usership is its reputation and design weaknesses. Ultimately, the key to Wikipedia's success (5,000,000+ articles is nothing to sneeze at!) is also its biggest weakness. Like everything else on the Internet, it is, ultimately, a paradox. The idea of an encyclopedia that anybody can edit means that, unfortunately, anybody can edit it. Even an 8-year-old, who's just discovered a new four-letter-word that he likes to post on everything he can find. Or some guy with some serious mental problems who insists on rewriting things to reflect his own personal "reality". Or a fifth grader who decides that his grade-school textbook, which is older than he is, is an excellent reference to a new scientific development. Or a user that wants to stroke his ego by claiming "ownership" of a ton of articles, and engaging in editwars with anyone who dares cross his "turf". Wikipedia has made a lot of improvements over the last few years, and has come a long way from from its all-time low, say around 2007-2010. Anti-vandalism bots have been created and refined to become more adept at finding and removing the childish four-letter-words and similar nonsense, while also reducing "false positives" that left a good faith editor in an editwar with a bot. The culture, while still having some problem users, still, is not nearly as hostile as it used to be. But the bottom line fact that Wikipedia cannot make any claim of factual accuracy to any of its articles may well prove to be its Achilles' heel. Again, the paradox is at play. Wikipedia smoked Nupedia because of its lack of editorial review. The newness of Wikipedia is gone, now. After 15 years, most everybody in the developed world has discovered and tried it. Most who would have an interest in editing have tried it, and perhaps have been driven away by the hostile culture that once dominated. Having had that kind of experience, and having seen Wikipedia for what it is, or rather, what it was, and having seen the inherent weakness of Wikipedia's signature trait " ... anybody can edit ... ", they've been there, done that, and are "over" Wikipedia. Or perhaps, "they're just not that 'into' you."

This is not to be doom and gloom about Wikipedia's future. But rather, I'd like you to consider that times do, in fact, change. There once was a time that print encyclopedias were the best thing you could get. And you had to pay a pretty penny for it. Lots of pretty pennies. Tons. Then the Internet came along. Then a certain British company decided to jump on the Internet bandwagon. Then they did some very stupid things and got themselves practically blacklisted from the Internet. Then Wikipedia came along and ultimately whipped the old company's rear and made them entirely irrelevant to the 21st century. But the lesson is ... what Wikipedia did to that old company ... somebody else can do to Wikipedia, if you're not careful. As trends change, Wikipedia needs to be able to recognize those trends, understand them, and respond to them appropriately. Lest Wikipedia find itself another Nupedia. In some foreign languages, you've had your challengers.

Ultimately, I think the key to Wikipedia's continued success is for both the foundation and the editor pool to recognize the fact that there is not one but two communities that must be successfully served.

Number one, and by far the most important, is the general public. That is, the non-users of Wikipedia. The ones who come here, expecting to find reliable information about a topic, and actually getting it. Based on my review of one little corner of the world, they are far from getting that. Not that Wikipedia's information is bad, per se, but it's not good, either. Like much of what's embraced American culture and society, lately, Wikipedia seems to have achieved "Excellence in mediocrity." The fact that I had an editwar with an old-time user who "really hates tags" (because they announce to the public how reliable an article's information actually is) and that "everyone" knows that the only reliable article are GA's, makes my point. The general public does not know what GA means, let alone understand that there even is a GA review process, and what it may mean to them. Then again, just because an article was GA'ed in the past does not mean the page served today is still GA material.

The second community Wikipedia must serve is the editor pool. The folks who, by sheer luck, just happen to run into some friendly user who takes the initiative to talk to an IP, and manages to convince them to give Wikipedia another try. Such was my story. For the editor pool to be productive, cooperation is imperative. There has been great improvement in this area since I last gave up on Wikipedia, but my experience shows that the problem is still far from extinguished. That said, my experience shows that another issue is that while you're no longer "punishing" new users for daring to invade the established user's turf, you still are far from rolling out the "welcome" mat to new users. It feels like there is still an entrenched user pool who see no need to welcome and help new users. Everything they say and do is in a private, established secret language, and there's no need to explain it because, well, we "don't" have new users, anymore. This attitude needs to change. Again, I must recognize that progress has been made, but more needs to be done. Case in point: Approach four: what the heck are "Global South" countries, and which two are you talking about??? I have no clue as to what Approach four is all about, let alone form any opinion as to its value.

One thing that was a well-intended, but poorly maintained, idea was the WikiProjects. Many of the tools and pages for the projects have been neglected and unused for so long that many of the tools have broken, and many of the pages were last updated years ago. The machinery that Wikipedia developed to improve the quality of its content have not only shut down, but have rusted into place. Some have rusted so badly that their front door is effectively welded shut. Some tools are so badly broken that the only viable approach to fixing them is to demolish what's there and start over from scratch. To get the users you need to make the commitment it takes to do all this hard work is going to be quite a challenge, because you drove those users away several years ago. Personally, I haven't given up on Wikipedia, but I have recognized the various times I was on, that it needed some more time to mature before it was worth investing my time and effort. From time to time, I have given Wikipedia another try, only to find, "Nope, not yet." Now I'm back and giving it another try. So far, so good ... but I'm still not positive how much of a commitment I want to make. So I'm working on my project in peaceful silence, right now, and watching. I'm watching to see if Wikipedia is worth the investment of my time and energy or not. The case is still being argued ... and the jury is far from going out, nevermind coming back, yet. I want to give Wikipedia a fair chance to prove itself, and honestly, so far you're doing okay. Not great, but okay. I feel that I'm not alone in my opinion ... but most of the people who left may not have been so charitably inclined as I, or as lucky as I to have such a friendly and welcoming user encouraging me to cross over to the "user" side. And even less are willing to take the time to express their opinions as I have.

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Approach seven: Revive your WikiProjects by making certain that all tools work and all pages are updated to reflect the fact that it's 2016, and not 2011. Then promote the WikiProjects and encourage users to join them. (Note that it must be possible for a new user to sign up, if you want him to be involved!) Clean up the dusty, moldy, and rusted content management links. Throw out the trash that's accumulated. Add new pages that have been added in the last five years. Then, start evaluating the pages from scratch. What is the quality of these pages today? Prioritize the work to be done. Then do it. Recognize that some users have interests/abilities in subareas of WikiProjects. Some of those interests may cross WikiProject lines. Encourage this, by developing a flexible infrastructure to meet their needs. As long as Wikipedia remains a volunteer project, recognize that users will have their own agendas, based on their needs and interests. Find ways to integrate their projects with the WikiProject's projects. Find ways to involve new users who don't have a project in mind to find a WikiProject that would appeal to them, and encourage them to work on priorities that are not being currently addressed. Let me be clear ... this approach will not solve everything overnight. But Wikipedia's problems did not develop overnight, either. What this approach is all about is making the transition from a new start-up fad to a viable project that will sustain itself for the long haul.

Approach one and two are implied by my approach seven. The reason I'm going with Approach seven rather than one and two is that I find one and two poorly worded, or don't quite have the concept right. Approach two actually acknowledges the fact that that you've become out of touch with your users. That honesty, and your willingness to get this kind of feedback is refreshing, and is key to your survival. But remember, you don't have one community of "users", you have two ... the largest and most important are the "users" who are not [[User:]]s. By definition, you don't have a process to get their input, but as one of those users for most of your 15 years, I can tell you what they want: Quality, reliable articles. Unfortunately, Wikipedia has focused on quantity rather than quality. This is why you've peaked and are falling on the fad curve. Wikipedia is no longer a fad. The question is are you ready to change your outlook to the long haul?

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BlaueWunder

Response by BlaueWunder 12:23, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Ansatz drei, aber nicht notwendigerweise jeden dieser Nutzer für Wikimedia-Projekte gewinnen. Quantität ist nicht gleich Qualität Ansatz vier, und noch stärker auf kulturspezifische Darstellungen (auf der Basis der Wahrung von MENSCHENRECHTEN < explizit Kinder- und Frauenrechten>) achten bzw. die Sichtweise der Darstellungen gemäß des NPOV radikal und unkorrumpierbar durchsetzen! ...hier schreiben... Mein Ansatz: Falls ich "Wikimedia-Nutzung" richtig verstehe: Stärkere Trennung von enzyklopädischen Inhalten (Wikipedia) und anderen Inhalten, die "How-to-Kenntnisse" vermitteln oder einen weniger strikt definierten wissenschaftlichen Ansatz haben. Der Männerzentriertheit entgegenwirken um mit der Gemeinnützigkeit ernst zu machen. Wenn es um Spendengelder geht: Das kann nicht das Kriterium sein, da die Serverbetreibung einen winzigen Bruchteil des zur Verfügung stehenden Finanzvolumens ausmacht und User, die drittklassige Wikimedia-Projekte aufrufen, wahrscheinlich sowieso nicht spenden.

Approach three, but not necessarily to win all those users for wikimedia projects. Quantity is not the same as quality.
Approach four, and respect culture specific presentation (based on the protection of the human rights (especially children- and women rights), or rather enforce the presentation according to NPOV radical and uncorruptible!

My approach: If I understand "Wikimedia usage" correct: Stricter division of encyclopaedic content (Wikipedia) and other content, that spread "How-to-knowledge" and have a less strict scientific approach. Get rid of the men-centredness to get in line with common public interest. In regard of donation money: That can't be a criterion, as the cost for server operation are only a tiny piece of the available finances, and users, who go to third-class wikimedia projects won't donate in any way.

X-Javier

Response by X-Javier 12:36, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Difficile de donner son avis sans connaitre les implications liées aux choix proposés. De plus vous ne donner aucun moyen de vérifier les informations que vous avancez, tel que "le trafic vers les projets Wikimedia décroît depuis 2013" manque de détail (quels projets, dans quelle langue, depuis quelle platforme, etc.) ou "le contenu de Wikimedia a été de plus en plus réutilisé par d'autres".

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Difficult to give an opinion without knowing the applications associated with the proposed choice. Also give you no way to verify the information as you go, such as "traffic to Wikimedia projects decreases from 2013," lack of detail (what projects, in what language, from any platform, etc) or "content Wikimedia has been increasingly reused by others. "

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Concernant "la meilleure façon d'encourager les visiteurs à venir sur nos projets" c'est le paradoxe entre participation massive et qualité de contenu qui fait la force et la faiblesse du projet. Pour faire venir des contributeur, il faudrait pouvoir leur dire quels articles ils pensent pouvoir améliorer, selon leur niveau de connaissance/affinité. Et leur dire qu'ils peuvent vraiment faire la différence. Ce qui implique de mettre en avant la communication entre les contributeur. Afin d'éviter le mur entre les nouveau et les anciens.

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Of "the best way to encourage visitors to come to our projects "is the paradox between mass participation and quality content is the strength and weakness of the project. To bring the contributor should be able to tell them what items they think they can improve, according to their level of knowledge / affinity. And tell them they can really make a difference. This involves highlighting the communication between the contributor. To avoid the wall between the new and old.

Mozgotron

Response by Mozgotron 13:27, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Mozgotron — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

3, 4. Внедрить в Википедии автоматическое создание параллельных страниц полной и краткой версий всех статей. Для перехода между полной и краткой версией статей использовать вкладки "Статья" и "Вкратце". Полные версии статей — этот то, из чего состоит Википедия сейчас, а краткие версии могут состоять из одного-двух предложений, без подробностей. Разрешить писать короткие определения понятий только на вкладке "Вкратце".

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3, 4. Implement in Wikipedia automatic creation of parallel pages full and concise versions of all the articles. To switch between full and concise versions of the articles use the tabs "Article" and "short". Full versions of articles - this is what is in Wikipedia now, a brief version may consist of one or two sentences, without details. Allow to write short definitions only in the "short".

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Chekaldftba

Response by Chekaldftba 13:42, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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I feel that the first approach is the best one.

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OverQuantum

Response by OverQuantum 14:17, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach two: Improve our understanding of how and why our users come

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Approach two, Approach three, Approach one

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HG Alvarez

Response by HG Alvarez 14:20, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de HG Alvarez a la pregunta crítica

Creo quepara aumentar el tráfico a los proyectos de Wikimedia se debería alentar de alguna manera la creación de contenidos por parte de las escuelas, así cómo también promocionar el uso de material de los proyectos de Wikimedia en las escuelas primarias, secundiarias, terciarias y universidades. De esta forma se involucrarían a muchas personas a los proyectos de Wikimedia y se estimularía a los alumnos a crear contenido, aprender a citar fuentes, etc.

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I think to increase traffic to Wikimedia the projects should encourage content creation by schools as well as promote the use of Wikimedia material in primary schools, secondary, tertiary and university . Thus many people would be involved in Wikimedia projects and encouraging students to create content, learning how to cite sources, etc.

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de HG Alvarez (o comparte tu propia idea)

Las mejores opciones me parecen la 4 y la 6.

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The best options seem to be 4 and 6.

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The RedBurn

Response by The RedBurn 14:22, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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One of the ways to encourage use would be to improve the Kiwix app. All users don't have access to mobile Internet, and this app would allow them to use Wikimedia content offline. As we can see on Google Play, lots of users download it (between 100 000 and 500 000 downloads despite the fact that it's not user friendly and so doesn't receive positive word of mouth) but then uninstall it because it's too difficult to download content for it (only about 3000 users).

Robert3D2734

Response by Robert3D2734 16:16, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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I DON'T KNOW WHAT 'REACH' IS BUT THIS PLACE IS ALL CENSORSHIP AND N A Z I S.. I AM TOLD I AM 'SOAPBOXING' BECASUE I POSTED THIS:

"Star Trek: Beyond Antares An online CGI FAN series produced by Robert England. Set in the original series era, with production design matching the era. It makes use of the Actual Voices of the original crew."

how the heck is that soapboxing,?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? i got yelled at for so many things i finally just took ALL the text from a similiar fan film below, thinking that would suit the text n a z i !!! what the heck is wrong with this awful awful place!! a n a z i nightmare!!!

Chekaldftba

Response by Chekaldftba 16:23, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Reach two

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Nnemo

Response by Nnemo 16:30, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Make Wikipedia better, in form and content. To this goal, improve Wikipedia tools so that good quality can be easier to write. Currently, Wikipedia is the enclyclopedia that has the crappiest writing.

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Approaches One and Six. And see previous section.

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Dp99

Response by Dp99 16:34, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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approach one

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approach six

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Darmokand

Response by Darmokand 17:10, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Others said it best:

• Per Rehman "Most people, like my own brother, believes the site is so matured now, that they there is nothing they can help with in their basic wiki knowledge. We need to get the word out, on how exactly people can help in the various places on our site (not just on how to write articles)"

• Per Wereldburger758: the most important thing the Wikimedia Foundation can do [is] to make working on the Wiki's worthwhile.

• Per Alphama: "the number of new members is down gradually. New comers hardly find the warm welcome from the old Wikipedians who sometimes don't have time and even pleasure to explain how to write the Wikipedia content."

• Per VexorAbVikipædi: "That's a chronic problem with Wikipedia: it's run by invisible, unnamed, unseen administrators who communicate in their own unintelligible technical jargon. It's almost intended to repel people. Well, it's obviously succeeded very well in repelling people — and you're suffering the consequences."

• Per 104.220.38.230: Reach will be improved by less academic-intellectual-cold approach and more understanding of the role of Wiki; sometimes [content] ges deleted too soon. People that have put their time and energy into this will not come back and will tell others what happened;

• Per Doctor Franklin: "Pages need to permit different forks", properly labelled of course. (This makes sense to me - after all, two different authors can work towards NPOV good-faith content yet still wind up with two very different end products. )

• Per Rcgardne: "Besides general knowledge, wikis serve as very powerful tools for housing and organizing personal information. A service offering a small, hosted private wiki (free or not free? perhaps an option?) has the following benefits: users must navigate to their private wiki page hosted under Wikimedia (improving traffic figures). Users become familiar with editing using Wikimedia tools/APIs. Wikimedia can now communicate with these users (with questions like these, or asking donations, etc.) This does not conflict with Wikimedia's vision of open knowledge.

• Per Denis Arnaud: "Quite a few friends and colleagues, much qualified and respected in their knowledge fields, began to contribute to Wikipedia with enthusiasm. But their enthusiasm was perceived as vandalism, therefore turning them away from Wikipedia contribution. That aggressive stance towards new editors seems to me a big issue for the overall Wikipedia quality and trustworthiness image."

• Per High-storian: "It feels like there is still an entrenched user pool who see no need to welcome and help new users. Everything they say and do is in a private, established secret language, and there's no need to explain it because, well, we "don't" have new users, anymore. This attitude needs to change."

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The important metric is active editors, not traffic.

• Approach Five: Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products. Ideally built right here, using our servers, requiring no special technological knowledge. (like a subreddit)
• Approach One: Adapt user experience to their needs (such as creating additional content formats).
• Approach Seven: Let users experiment with creating their own spaces.

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Jeanne Delaine

Response by Jeanne Delaine 17:23, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Les approches 1 et 2 me semblent indispensables. A noter que malgré mes contributions aux articles, je n'avais pas perçu l'importance de la notion de "projets", que je viens de comprendre. Il faut sans doute améliorer la communication sur ce sujet. Très cordialement --Jeanne Delaine (talk) 17:23, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approaches 1 and 2 seem to me essential. Note that despite my contributions to articles, I had not seen the importance of the concept of "projects", I just realized. It should probably improve communication on this subject.

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Rdelre

Response by Rdelre 17:31, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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L'approccio uno (1) è secondo me il più importante. Esso va integrato, a mio parere, con formule di verifica dei contenuti (cfr. p.es. wikipedia tedesca) che non escludano la libertà di contribuzione ma informino l'utente se la voce è stata controllata o meno.

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The approach one (1) is in my opinion the most important. It needs to include, in my opinion, with formulas Content Verification (see. Eg German wikipedia) that do not preclude the freedom of contribution but inform the user if the item has been checked or not.

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Approccio uno (1) - Approccio sei (6)

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Gfombell

Response by Gfombell 18:12, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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I like approach five

And I add one: improve referencing to have Wikipedia articles, Wikimedia content, etc. showing even more often on top of the search results.

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Behram ulukır

Response by Behram ulukır 18:38, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Behram ulukır kullanıcısının seçtiği 2-3 (veya kendi fikinizi yazın)

... Yaklaşım 1 - Yaklaşım 2. Ayrıca sayfa oluşturuken yazma ekranını kesinlikle geliştirip kulllanımı basit bir sayfa oluturma ekranı kullanmanız faydalı olacaktır. ...

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... Approach 1 - Approach 2. Also display the page you create will definitely develop usage in writing will be useful to create a page using a simple screen. ...

Truthdoctorknows

Response by Truthdoctorknows 19:36, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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I gave up trying to contribute because some people blindly accept what they read. I tried to add balance but it gets edited out. I have 6GB of stuff I've read but because of my disability I can't find/quote sources (and who knows what papers/research is true and unbiased?). Waste of my time/energy. No point wiki reaching more people if the 'facts' are not always true. I can't really do this: I've got a brain injury and get too muddled, sorry. But I DO have personal experience of misdiagnosis, surgery, anesthesia (anaesthetic) awareness, medicine, medical errors, medical law, discrimination and some other things. So my experience/knowledge wasted and over-ruled by those who actually don't know? Plus mega biases in favour of psychiatric drugs and psychiatrists version of reality. Really no point in wiki if the truth gets covered up and edited out. Very sad.

Commenter8

Response by Commenter8 20:34, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Increase speed and flexibility by accepting a greater variety of reliable sources, to include new and / or original research, with special labeling if needed.

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Approach seven: Increase speed and flexibility by accepting a greater variety of reliable sources, to include new and / or original research, with special labeling if needed.

Approach five: Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces).

Approach one: Increase frequency of use and number of users by adapting user experience to their needs (this may result in additional content formats, making more of Wikimedia content easier to find, increasing language coverage, etc.).

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Levin Holtkamp

Response by Levin Holtkamp 22:16, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Levin Holtkamp auf die Hauptfrage

Für Blogger und Redakteure die bewusst mit Freien Inhalten arbeiten haben es oft schwer die richtigen Bilder überhaupt zu finden. Besonders aus dem Berreich der Zeitgeschichte bzw. näheren Vergangenheit ist es nicht so leicht Medienmaterial auf Commons.wikimedia zu finden.

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Bloggers and editors aware of Free Content often find it difficult to find the right images at all. Especially from the area reserved to contemporary history or the recent past, it is not easy to find media material on Commons.wikimedia.

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Levin Holtkamp

Ansatz eins Ansatz zwei

[Approach 1 Approach 2]

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Arbalest Mike

Response by Arbalest Mike 22:25, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Understand exactly why users select alternate sources of the same/similar content. Two areas to focus on will most likely be search engine results and presentation on mobile devices.

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108.41.154.2

Response by 108.41.154.2 22:28, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Make this so unintelligent people can read this!!

Sj

Response by Sj 22:59, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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I'm just testing this strategy process. So far, I've had to click, scroll, click, scroll, click, and fill out wikitext (not even using VE). The resulting comments are in a section heading with my username, rather than clustered in any fashion by topic (removing most aspects of collaboration from the process).

The text entry here doesn't say anything about the question or approaches, I have to scroll up and down to see those.

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Vet3325abct

Response by Vet3325abct 23:18, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Estrellaroja1

Response by Estrellaroja1 23:57, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Estrellaroja1 a la pregunta crítica

EL ENFOQUE 1 Y ENFOQUE 5

Approach 1 and 5

Xcq5678

Response by Xcq5678 00:36, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Xcq5678 對關鍵問題的回應

我的第一问题是维基媒体基金会封禁我帐号与IP，限制功能究竟什么意思？如果再有此事件发生作何解释？ 我希望和全世界各族人民一道共享盛世共赴使命，未来很美好,用感恩的心回报世人……⋯

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My first question is banned me Wikimedia Foundation account and IP, restrictions on what function does this mean? If you have this event be interpreted?

I hope and peoples of the world share a ride Spirit mission, the future is very bright, with a grateful heart return the world ...... ⋯

Xcq5678 使用者的前2或前3優先順序（或分享您自己的想法）

⋯⋯我为人人，人人为我，当你心存世界时世界也就拥有你撑控⋯⋯

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⋯⋯ for all, all for one, when you feel the world world will hold you hold control ⋯⋯

Personman

Response by Personman 01:20, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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Monocultures die. Increasing the diversity of Wikimedia's userbase, particularly its contributors, is mandatory for long term success at the scale envisioned.

Personman's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches four, one, and five seem like they best serve this ideal. With respect to five, building APIs that encourage active contribution among populations not currently well-represented among users of the current editing interface might be an interesting direction.

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Ghosts&empties

Response by Ghosts&empties 01:25, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… accurate, concise information

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6! 5

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Sone asha

Response by Sone asha 01:42, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… Update more often and make biases in articles very unnoticeable

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...write here…

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ImperfectlyInformed

Response by ImperfectlyInformed 01:55, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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Quality is important, and Wikipedia's quality is often mixed right now - if we could get better tools to support producing quality content, that would help. ImperfectlyInformed (talk) 01:55, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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I don't think focusing on drawing in users is right focus. Produce high-quality, engaging content and the users will continue to come.

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Jonnymoon96

Response by Jonnymoon96 03:15, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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i believe that Wikipedia is doing a good job so far for example do we go to the encyclopedia Britannica no we go to Wikipedia but for those who do not understand English well the simple English Wikipedia should be more visible.

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considering that Wikipedia can be used on mobile browsers i would not do approach 6 instead of mobile apps i would have the mobile website improved

i would support approach 2, and i would do approach 5.

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IKHazarika

Response by IKHazarika 07:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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1. One of the reasons I go again and again to certain websites are because after you see a bit of content, they tell you about the other content you may like. Wikipedia does provide such links on article pages. But I suggest that related links should be messaged to user talk pages.... could bots be used for that?? Due to that the members who log in would be encouraged to see that content even if they did not thought of seeing that at that time or day....
2. Also, translation tools could be developed. Easy translation into different languages would help enrich non-English wikis and help make them popular
3. Another way could be, to make Wikipedia editing 'reward-oriented'. Not to give any money etc. But make it like a game. 100 edits and you get a reward point. Facility to challenge users, suppose, I challenge someone. If I edit more than the other, I get a reward point of his..... This would encourage users to edit more, as they 'compete' others

• @IKHazarika: You may find progress here with features like the Content Translation tool. There's a new blog post about this tool for more information. WMoran (WMF) (talk) 01:11, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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one, three, five

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АКК-Корд

Response by АКК-Корд 08:56, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

АКК-Корд — ответ на насущные вопросы

...Ключевым моментом в выработке стратегии развития должно быть четкое понимание того, - кто, с какими целями и с помощью каких средств становится пользователем тех или иных проектов. И при возможности,- оценить динамику этих факторов. Это позволит не только выбрать главные направления развития, но и эффективнее их совершенствовать.

Без данной информации любые развивающие действия основаны на предположениях и дадут лишь средний или малый эффект даже при больших усилиях в развитии выбранного направления.

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The key moment in the development of the development strategy must be a clear understanding - who, for what purpose and by what means it becomes a user of these projects. And if possible, - assess the dynamics of these factors. This will not only choose the main direction of development, but also to improve their effectiveness.

Without this information, any development activities are based on assumptions and give a medium or small effect even with great effort in the development of the selected areas.

АКК-Корд — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

... Предположительно главными факторами приводящими к снижению посещаемости являются:

1. Развитие большого числа специализированных интернет-ресурсов, "оттягивающих" на себя пользователей более широкими возможностями (например: не только получить информацию по объекту, но и сравнить его с другими, заказать и тд)

2. Общее снижение образовательного интереса на фоне усиления потребительского настроя.

3. Окончание эффекта "Модная Новинка" и формирование отношения как к "Словарю на полке"

Вывод: Необходимо Интегрировать проекты к другим образовательным и информационным проектам, находя сообщества интересующихся справочной информацией и предоставляя возможность удобно еёё получать.

Полезны Подход второй, Подход пятый

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Presumably the main factors leading to the decrease in attendance are:

1. The development of a large number of specialized Internet resources, "pulls" the users more features (for example, not only to obtain information on the project, but also to compare it with others, order, etc.)
2. The overall decline in the educational interests against the strengthening of consumer sentiment.
3. The end effect of "New Trend" and forming relationships as a "dictionary on the shelf"

Conclusion: It is necessary to integrate the projects to other educational and information projects, finding a community interested in background information and providing an opportunity to get comfortable

Useful: second approach, fifth approach

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Daveorama

Response by Daveorama 09:08, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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ONE, FIVE and SIX

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...write here…

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Jef antenne

Response by Jef antenne 09:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Jef antenne's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

...schrijf hier...

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2-6-4

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Pessimist2006

Response by Pessimist2006 10:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Pessimist2006 — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

6. Я уверен, что внимание к мобильным приложениям крайне важно на ближайшее время. --Pessimist (talk) 10:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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6. I am sure that attention to mobile applications is extremely important for the near future.

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Generator

Response by Generator 10:17, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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I like : "Approach Four - Increase awareness and use of Wikimedia projects in two Global South countries."

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...write here…

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Hamid bin qasimi

Response by Hamid bin qasim 10:52, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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want to write a short story titled as story of the universe and travel of crown of creature in two form in three universes

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...write here…

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Rogald

Response by Rogald 10:53, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Rogald auf die Hauptfrage

hier fängt doch schon ein Hauptproblem von WP an: Nutzerfeindlich. Warum kann ich nicht vorn bei den blauen Punkten einfach anklicken, was ich will?

Here begins one of the major problems with WP: user-friendliness. Why can't I just click on the blue dots, as I'd like?

Bolikahult

Response by Bolikahult 10:54, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Bolikahult à la question critique

Un design moderne sur écran large serait bienvenue : moins de liens, un sommaire fixe, une interface moins moche...

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Modern widescreen design would be welcome: less links, a fixed summary, a less ugly interface ...

Top 2-3 de Bolikahult (ou partagez vos idées)

5,4

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Zamaster4536

Response by Zamaster4536 14:05, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… Approach six is the best. A better mobile app is seriously needed, and maybe a redesigned web interface. For the reader, it's doesn't really make a difference, but for editors like us, we need better editing platforms on mobile. I even use the desktop version of Wikipedia on my phone just because of it's easier to use and displays more information. I understand you guys are in need of more editors, so a better mobile app with better editing and editing-related tools (mobile version Twinkle, etc.?) would be a fantastic addition to editing on mobile.

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...write here…

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X:: black ::X

Response by X:: black ::X 14:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von X:: black ::X

Priority No. 1: Approach 3 (by far most important),
Priority No. 2: Approach 6,
Priority No. 3: Approach 1.

Approach 3 I regard as by far most important. Lesser, but still as important I regard approaches 6 and 1.

If following approach 3 in several years results in an implemented and proper working way to win users of extern plattforms for Wikimedia projekts, Approach 5 probably will become interesting for the following strategy, but not earlier.

Regarding approach 4 I question, how to realize it.

45.219.126.26

Response by 45.219.126.26 15:05, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach four

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Could you make an agreement of some kind with blogging platforms? I started a blog the other day and they proposed several sites for free to use media content, wikimedia wasn't one of them. Also the veterans wikipedians who have blogs could talk about it to promote it, or any renown bloggers or video-blogers who'd agree to help.

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Sherry Vapors

Response by Sherry Vapors 15:21, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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2

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5, 6

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Vinckie

Response by Vinckie 15:43, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approche 2

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Approche 3 Approche 6

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Everymorning

Response by Everymorning 16:13, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Everymorning's response to the critical question

...Try to avoid problems that undermine Wikipedia's credibility when the media notices them, such as the discovery of long-lived hoaxes, systemic bias and low-quality articles.

Everymorning's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

...I think the best two approaches for doing this are the first two offered. WikiProject Editor Retention is tackling the second approach, while making Wikipedia easier to edit (e.g. Visual Editor) is one way to tackle the first. Other ways to do so include explaining in lots more detail than is currently done what people need to know before they start editing WP about how it works.

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Pulsar

Response by Pulsar 16:22, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Pulsar à la question critique

...1 2 3...

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...répondez ici...

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Cabinet Carreidas

Response by Cabinet Carreidas 17:54, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… better advertising?

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...write here… 1/ approach 2: best communication then approach 4: but there might be some langages problems, partly because I don't know how pages are being translated 3/ Approach 3 might be a good choice: the 1st time, I realized what wikipedia actually is, is when I saw an automatic request for donors/contributors. Thus, the more we communicate the better our "clients" understand that we need their contribution to survive/ to best offer them what they need...

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The Quixotic Potato

Yet another stupid and pointless WMF survey that is wasting the time of community members.

Approach 13: The WMF should apologize to the community for its incompetence and the fact it has wasted so much time and money. All WMF people except a handful should be fired.

The Quixotic Potato (talk) 19:09, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Why even waste your precious time answering this survey then? I'm sure you have much better things to do then help WMF improve Wikipedia. -- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 07:38, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

D6194c-1cc

Response by D6194c-1cc 19:20, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

D6194c-1cc's response to the critical question

Templates system must be improved. More user friendly. More possibilities. For example text fields must have the same features as the main editor. Making notes under template fields is horrible.

@D6194c-1cc: The main task tracking for the ongoing set of enhancements is phab:T55613. For example, and if I understand correctly (and once the code is finished/tested/merged, and the relevant TemplateData has been updated for the templates themselves), this will give the text fields (optional) specific data-types, such as "wiki-page-name", so that typing will trigger a search/autcomplete for page titles. Having a text field with all the same features as the main editor, is the penultimate line in the description there. Hope that helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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API for other sites? I think is a very good idea. Give them js scripting library based on jQuery and they would be happy. BUT. API must be very clever. People don't want to insert many tags into text searching corresponding pages. They just want to select text and mark it as wikipedia link. So, simple span tag with "wiki" class would do the work. BUT. What about times, word forms, articles, etc? Engine must be made to process such phrases automatically to find the best suitable variant of article. And this task is very hard to implement. Good luck!

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Conteur-momentanement-indisponible

Response by Conteur-momentanement-indisponible 20:48, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Conteur-momentanement-indisponible à la question critique

...répondez ici...

• Approche 1
• Approche 2

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Chewbacadrunk

Response by Chewbacadrunk 21:05, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…

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...write here… approach two and approach five. Also approach seven: make the editing and contribution system easier and more casual-friendly.

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Haku

Response by Haku 00:16, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Haku (o comparte tu propia idea)

3 y 6

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Ddalbiez

Response by Ddalbiez 02:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Kozan Huseyin

Response by Kozan Huseyin 02:22, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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4

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Social Share button that shows up on each paragraph as you hover over it. To be able to have a similar system where citing doesn't require all the head work of copy and paste through different sites, the social share button enables a simple way to share. As social is the current big aspect of the net and wikipedia is looking at reach, social sharing is perhaps the best way people can share relevant information with friends and networks while Wikipedia gains the reach it needs.

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being a volunteer

it took me a long time to figure out how to just add something. i wanted to ask the editor who edited something i added. i never could. i asked others and they both said, just ask him even though i responded that i couldn't figure out how to do it. (it kept going to my page and not his). if you want others like me, retired, to help then you have to make it easier to figure it out. simplify every instruction to what a grade school student can understand. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mgmcs2 (talk)

Ankit manglik

Response by Ankit manglik 05:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… Two, five and six

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...write here…

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Sigeng

Response by Sigeng 08:04, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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You're web 1.0 in a world where web 2.0 is old news, a useful library where content is stored, but no one wants to stay.

Just about every editor page in Wikimedia is hard to use, obtuse, ugly, and relies on wiki markup, this form included.

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2 5 3

And let prospective editors login with other common social media accounts (any OpenID provider).

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Jc4xcat

Response by Jc4xcat 08:12, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…

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...write here… a better explanation about the use of blue link would be a great help in my sense.I've noticed that most of the users are not aware of the possibility to access to more information that's they read. Go to next topic area (Communities)

MikeLacey

Response by MikeLacey 08:24, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…

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2, followed by 3 and 1

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Miguel Andrade

Response by Miguel Andrade 08:32, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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...

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2, 6, 3

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GerhardSchuhmacher

Response by GerhardSchuhmacher 08:53, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von GerhardSchuhmacher auf die Hauptfrage

(1), (2)

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von GerhardSchuhmacher

Regionale Verantwortung einführen (in Deutschland: Landkreise) - mit z.B. jeweils drei regionalen Autoren, die Artikel jeweils dieser Bereiche (Landkreise, Städte) besser organisieren: Niveau erhöhen, Verlinkung optimieren, Lücken füllen und neue Artikel-Bereiche integrieren (z.B. Betriebe mit Tradition). Begründung: Die Artikel eines Landkreises (oder einer Großstadt) sind z.T. zwar systematisch eingestellt worden (z.B. Kommunen, Ortschaften) - jedoch nur mit formalen Angaben - und wurden seitdem höchst unterschiedlich entwickelt. Es entstand ein qualitativer Flickenteppich, den eine koordinierte regionale Gruppe effizient verbessern kann. Wenn dieser Zusammenhang besser entwickelt ist, werden auch die Nutzerfrequenzen steigen. Gruß gs

Introduce regional responsibility (in Germany: counties) - with, for example, three regional authors, who will better organize te articles in each of these areas (districts, cities): Increase standard, optimize linking, fill gaps and integrate new Articles ranges (for example, companies with tradition). Reason: The Articles of a county (or city) have partly been systematically set up (for example, municipalities, towns) - but only with formal details - and have since become highly variable. A qualitative patchwork has been created, that a coordinated regional group can efficiently improve. If this relationship is more developed, the user frequencies will rise. Greetings, gs

Uthrah

Response by Uthrah 10:09, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Here follows are top three approaches according to my knowledge: Approach Three Approach Five Approach Seven : Develop new features such that users should be able to highlight/bookmark/save only a part(cameo/interesting/important/remembrance) of the content(different from adding pages to Watchlist). So that this content is always available in their account for their future references. In addition, this feature can be extended, so that the users are able to share/send any of these saved content to another user. This way, the users can be more interactive and also it improves knowledge sharing among Wikimedia users. Limitations : Of course, sharing content between users has security issues. Probably to solve that, the content receiver can authorize the sender for the first time, hence ensuring that the receiver is receiving from the trusted user/known user. Advantages : This approach doesn't focus on socializing/networking, but focused more on knowledge sharing and encouraging users to use Wikimedia projects more interactively than before.

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Shuroo

Response by Shuroo 10:27, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…

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...write here…Approaches one, two and three

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MENGİŞEVOLU

--MENGİŞEVOLU (talk) 11:06, 2 February 2016 (UTC) Response by MENGİŞEVOLU 11:06, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

MENGİŞEVOLU kullanıcısının kritik soruya yanıtı

...buraya yazınız ...

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... buraya yazınız ...

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Arjunaraoc

Response by Arjunaraoc 11:11, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Arjunaraoc's response to the critical question

Instead of just measuring direct reach, explore measuring indirect reach by partnering with large players like search engines. Explore possibilities of support by such partners for fund raising.

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7. Work with large content reusers to develop partnerships and address their concerns.

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Slashme

Response by Slashme 12:09, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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• Approach one
• Approach two
• Approach seven: I would recommend targeting educational institutions, focusing on getting scholars and students engaged in editing: both content and translation work. If more people really can understand that Wikipedia isn't a read-only project, they will have a greater sense of ownership, and will be more likely to spread the word.

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C. Trifle

Response by C. Trifle 12:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

C. Trifle's response to the critical question

...write here… to make sure that freedom of speech on Wikimedia is only limited when a justified reason for the limitation is given and to support the same principle for external content reuse

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...write here…to examine the effects of, how to best call that, the censorship system adopted on Wikipedia in Polish some eight years ago. When I wrote my first contributions for Wikipedia in 2006 the system did not exist. It has been used for long enough to evaluate its advantages and disadvantages.

I think it is a good idea to show interest in other people's work and, if necessary, write comments and messages on articles' and other users' talk pages to suggest improvements. However, it was not a good idea to create a kind of Caste of people who for unknown reasons can prevent your text from being seen and even remove it while others, considered as some lower Caste can't do anything about it.

Of the Approaches mentioned above, I support Two and Three. My reason for coming and staying on Wikimedia projects is that I always visit this site when I encounter a "problem" to be solved, irrespective of the area. I read what is written here. Then I go to the references. If I see someting is missing or wrong I contribute, usually on Wikipedia, if possible. I've had my work censored and removed several times because I used references to authentic work published elswhere, like scientific articles, product information and articles in journals. I suppose my quotations did not match the image the "hosts" of the wikipages wanted.

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Widiks

Response by Widiks 12:48, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Widiks — ответ на насущные вопросы

нейтральность в статьях, толерантность, а так же ссылки на источники которые можно легко найти
например вопрос религии должен вестись с нейтральной точки зрения, атеистических подход не является нейтральным - это такое же мировоззрение ссылки по это теме очень трудно доступны

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Neutrality in articles, tolerance, as well as links to sources that can be easily found. For example the question of religion should be conducted from a neutral point of view, the atheistic approach is not neutral - it is the world reference on this subject is very difficult to access

Widiks — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Подход седьмой:

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Approach 7

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Majkl Pris

Response by Majkl Pris 13:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Відповідь Majkl Pris на критичне питання

...Редагування є дуже складним за вимогами та у часі. Посилань та користувачів було би значно більше в разі редакційних послуг Вікімедії із зворотнім зв'язком...

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"Editing is very difficult and the requirements of time. Links and users would be much more in the case of editorial services Wikimedia feedback

2-3 найважливіші підходи, на думку Majkl Pris (або запропонуйте власну ідею)

...Підхід перший: Збільшити частоту відвідувань та кількість користувачів шляхом адаптації їхнього користувацького досвіду до їхніх потреб (можливо, через додаткові способи форматування змісту, покращення можливостей пошуку більшої частини інформації, збільшення мовного покриття тощо). Підхід другий: Краще дослідити, яким чином і чому наші користувачі приходять до Вікіпедії і залишаються на наших проектах, щоб краще задовольняти їхні потреби.пишіть тут…

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Approach One: Increase the frequency of visits and the number of users by adapting their user experience to their needs (possibly through additional ways to format content to improve search capabilities of most of the media, increasing language coverage, etc.). Approach Two: It is better to investigate how and why our users have come to Wikipedia and remain on our projects to better meet their needs.

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Maikek

Response by Maikek 13:15, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Maikek auf die Hauptfrage

Darauf achten, dass nicht zu viele Projekte entstehen und diese untereinander besser verbinden, beispielsweise interne Verlinkung von Artikeln der WikiVoyage mit Wikipedia und umgekehrt (vielleicht in der Art von den Commons).

Viele Artikel sind - verständlicherweise - mittlerweile recht umfangreich. Zur externen Weiternutzung könnte man vielleicht einen Kurztext mit integriertem Link auf den Originalartikel anbieten (mir fehlt noch die Idee, wie das zu kommunizieren wäre). Gleichzeitig könnte dieser Kurztext als Einstieg für mobile Apps genutzt werden (nicht überall ist Wlan :-)).

Make sure that not to many projects develop and connect them with each other better, for example, internal linking of articles of Wikivoyage with Wikipedia and vice versa (maybe in the way of Commons).

Many articles are - understandably - now quite extensive. For external reuse one might offer a short text with an integrated link to the original article (I still lack the idea of how it would be possible to communicate this). At the same time this short text could be used as entry for mobile apps (not everywhere is Wifi :-)).

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2 und/and 6

JediLibrarian

Response by JediLibrarian 13:34, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Focus on number 6. Everytime I access Wikipedia on my mobile device, the first thing I do is change it back to desktop view. I prefer the layout of desktop view, even if I have to scroll a lot. In particular, I like the ability to switch from one language to another, since I often use Wikipedia to translate nouns.

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Cosnahang

Response by Cosnahang 13:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Mogeiwang

Response by Mogeiwang 15:05, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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To inspire users' enthusiasm, is it possible to brief users' contributions on the bottom of the item?

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193.50.250.33

Response by 193.50.250.33 15:52, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 1 and 6.

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Approaches 1, 2 and 6.

Wiklol

Response by Wiklol 17:35, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approche 2 Approche 6

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Chibs007

Response by Chibs007 17:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Increase trust. Very few people outside editors know that there is an actual process of revision in important articles, such as the science ones.

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БУДДА

Response by БУДДА 18:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Возможно, стоит обратить внимание на не-широту русской Википедии, когда какой-нибудь любитель "тяжёлого металла" и фэнтези (ничего не имею против ни того, ни другого, я и сам люблю как Урсулу ле Гуин так и М. Пруста, к фэнтези никакого отношения не имеющего) может просто почему-то объявить содержательную статью "спамом"...

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Perhaps it is worth paying attention to the non-Russian breadth of Wikipedia, when some amateur "heavy metal" and fantasy (I have nothing against either one or the other, I do love how Ursula K. Le Guin and Proust, a fantasy having no relation) could just somehow declare a meaningful article "spam"

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B25es

Response by B25es 19:07, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Creo que lo primero que hay que saber es cómo y por qué vienen los usuarios a utilizar los contenidos de los proyectos, porque si no sabemos esto puede que elaboramos plataformas estupendas y aplicaciones maravillosas pero que nadie use.
En segundo lugar, pero muy en contacto con lo anterior, hay que organizar y simplificar la estructura de los contenidos. Conozco gente a la que le gusta el material que hay en Commons, pero encuentra que es un laberinto moverse por allí. No nosotros, claro, nosotros llevamos años en Commons y los demás proyectos nos movemos con soltura; pero no hablamos de nosotros -los editores- sino de la gente externa que al final es la mayoría.
Aclarados esos dos puntos, ya veremos si es un problema lingüístico, de plataformas, de economía y sociología (llámese Sur Global, aunque hay cosas en ese Sur que son más norte que otras cosas del presunto Norte Global), o de otras clases de problemas que encontraremos. B25es (talk) 19:07, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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I think the first thing to know is how and why users come to use the contents of the projects, because if we do not know this, we can make great platforms and wonderful applications but no one will use them.

Second, but very much in touch with this, we must organize and simplify the structure of the content. I know people who like the material on Commons, but find it a maze to get around. Not us, of course, we spent years in Commons and we move freely in the other projects; but do not talk about us - the editors - but external people are the majority in the end.

Clarify those two points, and we'll see if it's a language problem, platforms, economics and sociology (call Global South, although there are things in the South that are more north than other things in the alleged Global North), or other kinds of problems we will encounter.

Spineas

Response by Spineas 20:49, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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The development of native apps and tighter integration into digital assistants (Siri, Cortana, etc.)

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6, 1, 3

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Sergey Bolshakov

Response by Sergey Bolshakov 21:05, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Второй и пятый

The second and fifth

Imfalcon

Response by Imfalcon 21:11, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach six is the most relevant as more people are accessing their info in mobile devices. Approach 2 is the second most important, if you do not understand your constituency and users you will not be able to address their needs and make Wikimedia content relevant to them

Pietrobon costa

Response by Pietrobon costa 21:42, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Interface Wikipedia contents with social nets like Facebook and Linkedin. I think something like a buttom to check and validate contents of facebook posts(in way to validate truth of news and posts publishing), and also a connection between Linkedin professional breefings and researchers/professors associated to Linkedin profiles.

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They way traced by Approach three and five are the bests ultil now.

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Library Guy

Response by Library Guy 21:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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six

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five and six

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Z1720

Response by Z1720 22:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach one. We need more users to feel empowered to edit and contribute to Wikipedia, instead of chasing them away with heavy guidelines or dense pages of MOS. You also need to update the format of the website to appeal to the current generation of users. Technology is always changing and if we do not update the website then it will look like it is from the 2000s, and therefore uncool for the next generation to use. This is how MySpace went from a great social media platform to a dead website.

You think it's possible to make an online ENCYCLOPEDIA "cool"?? Any attempt at doing that would probably ruin it worse than whatever happened with MySpace. -- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 19:20, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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JBreeschoten

Response by JBreeschoten 23:01, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Ik denk dat de wijze van benaderen van internet pagina's in het algemeen verandert en blijft veranderen. Niet alleen voor wikipedia, maar voor elke vorm van content. Dit door het gebruik van nieuwe technologie en het voortgaand gebruik van nieuwe apps op bestaande apparaten. De beste wijze om daar mee om te gaan is om die mogelijkheden zoveel mogelijk te benutten in plaats van ze te omzeilen.

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I think the way of accessing web pages in general is changing and continues to change. Not only for Wikipedia, but for any kind of content. This is through the use of new technology and the continued use of new apps on existing devices. The best way to deal with it is to exploit these opportunities as much as possible rather to circumvent them.

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benadering 3 en 5

Approaches 3 and 5

Samtron1412

Response by Samtron1412 23:24, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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• Approach one: Increase frequency of use and number of users by adapting user experience to their needs (this may result in additional content formats, making more of Wikimedia content easier to find, increasing language coverage, etc.).

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• Approach six: Improve Wikipedia mobile apps to increase use.

• Approach five: Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces).

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Larry Yuma

Response by Larry Yuma 00:35, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 2, and 6 ! Improve mobile site and **app**!

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Leveretth

Response by Leveretth 02:20, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach One. Specifically, increasing language coverage.

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Ickenham 47

Response by Ickenham 47 02:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Wikimedia's traffic is likely declining because people are increasingly abandoning search platforms like Google and adopting discovery platforms like Pinterest instead. If Wikimedia does want more direct traffic, they should invest in a team that turns all the awesome Wikimedia content into more shareable, probably more bite-sized bits, to share on social media, etc. Also, Wikimedia projects themselves could be optimized for sharing. Basically, you need an in-house content marketing team.

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JohnChrisRiva

Response by JohnChrisRiva 05:12, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Approach 6 first thing, then try to increase past credibility issues.

Hi, @JohnChrisRiva:. Thanks for your feedback! Can I ask what you mean by "increase past credibility issues"? I would be grateful for a bit of expansion there so I'm sure I'm accurately reflecting your thoughts. :) --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 13:23, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Ryuch

Response by Ryuch 06:56, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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I think we have enough content generally. But still it lacks in certain domains. But It's not easy to find what parts are lacked. We should find them by exposing our content to various field. There are a lot more ways to read Wikipedia. I mean besides reading on the website, en.wikipedia.org, it is now exposed to Kindle readers and other apps. We should invade such areas, for example digital textbook, math book, or astronomy magazine. We need make the articles be linked to those content. I do not mean just links. Some excerpts or side boxes from Wikipedia articles as baits would be fine. How can we help the third party content providers to quote us?

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Approach three, two, one in my order.

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Patrug

Response by Patrug 07:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approaches #2 & 3.

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Bagratun

Response by Bagratun 07:04, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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DV8tion2u

Response by DV8tion2u 07:34, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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I hate to bring this up but, this entire approach is pathetic. Stop trying to merely support yourselves and think about actually expanding understanding. Wiki has become a sort of haven for radical minds. They edit the enormous majority of the world away. False military lists... or ANY military list, short of widely know honors, ARE and always will treasonous to expose. These actions put innocent lives at risk. Not merely the serviceman but, their families. I respectfully request you review you handling of people who have put themselves in harms way for your safety and freedom.

  Please,
STOP THE LISTS

False military lists? Without details, @DV8tion2u:, I'm afraid it's difficult to follow or look into your concerns. Can you offer an example? --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 13:29, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Samwilson

Response by Samwilson 08:19, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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I am specifically interested in getting traffic to, and externally reusing, Wikisource content. This is (I think) low-hanging fruit in a way, in that the concept of a digital library is relatively easy to understand, and people already want to share in this sort of thing. Why do people choose Project Gutenberg over Wikisource, for example? I think it is because it's got more!

I don't think there is a problem with people reusing Wikimedia content by sourcing it from elsewhere (i.e. traffic doesn't end up at Wikimedia) so long as the content always maintains a link back to its home in a Wikimedia project. I don't think traffic matters so much as making sure people know that if they want the most up-to-date version of something they should come here, and therefore to make changes they need to come here.

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• Approach three: Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects.
• Approach five: Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces).

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VIGNERON

Response by VIGNERON 08:43, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Please don't focus only on the english Wikipedia there is other Wikimedia projects an other languages just as worthy. Others projects are often forgotten but they need attention and improvement. Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikisources and Wiktionnaries seems the more important to me, there a lot of easy thing that can be done there. For small languages, Wikisource and Wiktionnarie can be good starts in the Wikimedia universe, easier than building their own Wikipedia in theory but the software and the interface is quite old (no VisualEditor for instance...).

Top 2-3 de VIGNERON (ou partagez vos idées)

1. Approach 7 : improving contents (in quantity and quality), it still seems to me the best way to get readers.
2. Approach 2.
3. Approach 6 : but not only for Wikipedia, and for both reader and editors.

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ElieLeLazy

Response by ElieLeLazy 09:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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3, 2 and 4

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.mau.

Response by .mau. 10:19, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Our goal is that knowledge becomes free, not that free knowledge belongs to Wikimedia projects. That is a means, not a goal. We therefore need to explain people who reuse Wikimedia content that we are happy that they use it, but that they should consider to add knowledge themselves so that everybody ultimately enjoys it. But the actual challenge is to let them understand that there is knowledge (potentially) useful for other, which should be added to Wikimedia projects, and knowledge useful only for them (AKA spam), which should not be added to Wikimedia projects. This is the real challenge we must face.

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3,7

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Chints247

Response by Chints247 11:40, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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I am sure there are many users like me who would love to contribute to the platform and be a part of this larger team. Like I faced the understanding and technical aspects were my major challenge which took me almost 2 years to get used to it. Below I am listing some options which could help

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K.Nevelsteen

Response by K.Nevelsteen 12:38, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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I think the greatest weakness that Wikipedia has is the lack of standardization of information with other sites. Google takes wikipedia data and displays it on search results, however Wikipedia doesn't hook into, for example, Google Scholar for citations. There has to be many of possibilities to link data like this that would increase traffic, make it easier for editors and provide higher quality of text. This links a bit to Approach two.

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Baruneju

Response by Baruneju 13:13, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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We face two different issues here. First, attracting and retaining new contributors may be limited by either the required knowledge related to copyright and other technical topics, and by the possible problems with "strongly motivated" contributors. Second, content re-use is at the core of the mission, however we should fight the re-use without proper attribution, be it online or offline.

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2,3,7.

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Sannita

Response by Sannita 13:39, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach number 3, definitely.

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2, 3, 5 respectively.

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Lele giannoni

Response by Lele giannoni 13:49, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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I think approach two is the most important, with a particular and preliminary focus: understanding why wikipedia traffic has diminished. Personally, I fear many people today realized that wikipedia content is not always accurate and reliable enough.

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Approach three as second best and approach five as third one.

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BooBear122

Response by BooBear122 15:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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OSeveno

Response by OSeveno 15:02, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Verbeter de reputatie van de kwaliteit van de betrouwbaarheid van Wikipedia door via projecten alle oude artikelen, die nog geen bronnen vermelden, te voorzien van verifieerbare bronnen en ze vervolgens te controleren op basis van die bronnen. Maak daarbij duidelijk aan de lezers welk kwaliteitsniveau wij nastreven. Communicatie naar de lezers over basisprincipes van Wikipedia versterkt openheid, wat waardering kan opleveren. De voorgaande suggesties zullen tegelijkertijd mogelijk het vrij extern hergebruik vergroten.

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Improve the reputation of the quality of the reliability Wikipedia by improving all the old articles on projects that do not disclose sources yet to provide verifiable sources and monitor them then based on those resources. Try to make clear to readers what quality we strive for. Communication with the readers about the basics of Wikipedia's enhanced openness, can yield valuation. The above suggestions will at the same time may increase the free site re-use.

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Als bewerker van artikelen constateer ik tegelijk dat externe websites (delen) van de voorwaarden voor hergebruik niet respecteren, simpelweg omdat hun doel niet ligt op het terrein van informatie, maar op makkelijk winstbejag. Veel eigenaars van dergelijke websites focussen vooral op hun advertentie inkomsten, maar ook op statistische analyse van hun bezoekers ten behoeve van de verkoop van die statistieken aan adverteerders en andere geïnteresseerden. Ik wil erop wijzen dat op basis van het lezen van Wikipedia artikelen een vrij compleet profiel van een individu kan worden opgesteld, simpelweg omdat Wikipedia elk mogelijk aandachtsveld bestrijkt. Wikipedia zou iets moeten doen met dit - privacy - gegeven, vind ik.

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As editor of articles, I sometimes find external websites (parts) not respecting the conditions for re-use, simply because their purpose is not in the field of information, but easy profit. Many owners of such websites focus primarily on their ad revenues, but also on a statistical analysis of their visitors to benefit from the sale of those statistics to advertisers and other interested parties. I would point out that on the basis of reading Wikipedia articles a fairly complete profile of an individual can be prepared, simply because Wikipedia covers every possible area of attention. Wikipedia should do something with it - privacy - given, I think.

Housiemousie

Response by Housiemousie 17:34, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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I favor 3, 5 and 6, however I would add that Wikimedia request that users who link Wikimedia content on their site also include a mini graphic (Wikimedia logo) that is also a live link to the Wikimedia home page - as both acknowledgement and to increase Wikimedia visibility.

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Anrkist

Response by Anrkist 18:00, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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1,2,4

Madame Curieuse

Response by Madame Curieuse 18:40, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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approach schools and universities worldwide

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Approach 1 (and maybe also Approach 6)

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ResearchVerification

Response by ResearchVerification 18:45, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…Hello? I support Approaches #1,2, and #6. Mobile apps are huge and will become even bigger.

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...write here… 1. I've noticed that active posters in local newspaper online forums spend hours "proving their point" and citing sources. Once comments (and links) are posted, they're there for everyone who reads the news article and subsequent comments. Is there a way Wikipedia can "reach" those active posters? "I'll out-Wiki you, here, read THIS!" 2. Classroom applications for middle schools & high schools? Ways to get teachers using Wiki products/projects? If so, how about an annual "National Wiki Championship" - a modern take on the "Spelling Bee" business model. Be sure to send out press releases/media clips etc to local television news stations, they air every "family friendly" story they get, especially on slow news days.

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HГq

Response by HГq 20:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von HГq auf die Hauptfrage

An den Ansätzen eins und zwei sollte weitergearbeitet werden. Auch wenn eine individuelle "Bedürfnisbefriedigung" der Wikipedia-Nutzer sicher schwer umzusetzen ist, könnte man durch häufigere Befragungen bzw. eine eigenständige Review-Funktion Meinungen und Wünsche der Wikipedia-Nutzer einholen und so eine bestimmte Richtung beim Optimierungsvorgang einschlagen.

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On the approaches one and two should be continued. Even if an individual 'needs' of Wikipedia users is certainly difficult to implement, we could obtain by frequent surveys and an independent review function, the opinions and wishes of Wikipedia users and so take a certain direction during the optimization process.

Bobbyshabangu

Response by Bobbyshabangu 21:13, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach two: Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs. Approach three: Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects. Approach four: Increase awareness and use of Wikimedia projects in two Global South countries. Approach five: Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces). Approach six: Improve Wikipedia mobile apps to increase use.

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Improve visual editor to encourage retention of new users.

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Thoni Litsz

Response by Thoni Litsz 22:03, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Acredito que podemos melhorar quando incentivamos as pessoas em suas procuras por temas como artes, arquitetura, personalidades e estilos.

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I believe we can improve when we encourage people in their search for topics such as arts, architecture, personalities and styles.

Matthias Buchmeier

Response by Matthias Buchmeier 22:40, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Improving content quality and quantity, including the non-English editions and sister projects.

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Elizabethlholliday

Response by Elizabethlholliday 23:51, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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approach 1,3 and 4

Magedq

Response by Magedq 03:32, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Continuously small improvements to all projects, with a focus on reducing barrier to entry.

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Approach 6) Improve Wikipedia mobile apps to increase use.

- A consistent app face across projects, consistently offering features like geo-location.

Approach 5) Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces).

Also, a novel approach: to attract and retain new contributors, allow a more interactive view of contributions than the "contributions" list. Make it easier to highlight and share one's work to others. See the user profiles of all recent succesful internet crowdsourcing sites (reddit, stackoverflow, github, etc), for basic "gamificiation" of creating contributions. Could potentially use data such as page view count for edits.

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Powellsantafe

Response by Powellsantafe 03:55, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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What do you think is the best way to encourage traffic to come to our projects while also supporting free, external content reuse? Potential strategic approaches":

Primary conveyance of effective usages expanded by a dual approach of formatting changes. layering of topical descriptiveness by authoring categorization of technicality in articles of singular natures. (did that come out too condensed for understanding?). I'll go on, none-the-less. A conscious authorship of which root meanings and precedents are included. (i.e), "global warming", the readership including bee keeper, politician, economist, etc.

In a participatory variety of authorship, assigned or requested by a strict objective range of approaches and within that, usage of a sub-motivated degree of technical descriptiveness.

You are only resolute in an academic format with, I must add, an excellent use of hyperlinks. Wikipedia has mastered this exponentially. my proposal to populate epistemological standards, to the benefits of; Approaches One and creating the preliminaries for Approach Five. It would be my choices of examining this somewhat spontaneous notion to greatest efficacy and an elaboration automatically supplying refine demographic Big Data for future accelerated advancement (which is in my opinion a tsunami sure to come).

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Maferlona

Response by Maferlona 04:33, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Maferlona a la pregunta crítica

I think that the best way is to make aware to the community about projects and existing tools, make more simple the use, with the objetive encourage its use to potential new users and more regular users too

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Maferlona (o comparte tu propia idea)

• Approach six
• Approach three
• Approach one

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Clare1000

Response by Clare1000 04:37, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…This is the best way in my mind

Hi Clare1000 - can you clarify which way you are talking about as "the best way" here? Kbrown (WMF) (talk) 15:39, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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SushiGod

Response by SushiGod 05:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Expand Wikimedia to other sources and platforms, and help the general good of the people (it. charity donations).

OlEnglish

Response by OlEnglish 07:14, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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I believe approaches two and three would be the best way to move forward. These folks are already reading Wikipedia content, now we just need to show them why and how reading it at Wikipedia proper is a better experience. -- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 07:22, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approaches 2 and 3. Definitely. -- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 07:22, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Gingersnappy

Response by Gingersnappy 08:43, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Я думаю, что посещаемость проектов снижается по простой причине: людей перестали интересовать материалы, которые вы предлагаете. Или же они стали менее доступны, так как появилось слишком много ненужных (неинтересных) ресурсов. Что станет наилучшим для привлечения в ваши проекты новых читателей и участников? Безусловно, нужно обратить внимание на молодежь, их интересы, увлечения.

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I think that the project has lost traffic for a simple reason: people are no longer interested in the material that you suggest. Or they have become less available, because there was too much unnecessary (uninteresting) resources. What would be best to bring your projects to new readers and participants? Of course, you need to pay attention to young people, their interests and hobbies.

Gingersnappy — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Первый, второй, пятый.

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The first, second, fifth.

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Pomptidom

Response by Pomptidom 10:21, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Pomptidom's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

Communiceer goede ervaringen, geef voorbeelden. Ook buiten de Wikimedia wereld. Vertel in begrijpelijke taal wat andere projecten kunnen betekenen en neem daarbij het standpunt in van de gebruiker. What's in it for me?

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Communicate good experiences, give examples. Outside the Wikimedia world. Tell in plain language what Wikimedia projects can contribute by taking into account the position of the user. What's in it for me?

Pomptidom's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

Benadering een; inclusief een idee: bouw een standaard voorleesfunctie in in Wikipedia. Dyslecten, slechtzienden, laaggeletterden etc hebben hier baat bij. De huidige optie voor voorlezen is zeer beperkt omdat niet elk artikel is ingesproken. Daarnaast zijn de huidige ingesproken teksten snel verouderd, wanneer een artikel wordt aangepast klopt de ingesproken tekst niet meer. De gedeelde kennis wordt zo nog beter toegankelijk, je bereik wordt groter.

Benadering zes: Met oog op toekomst moet hier grote prioriteit liggen.

Translation by Pomptidom

1 including an idea: build a standard for a 'reading out loud' function in Wikipedia. Make it possible to listen to all Wikipedia articles in every language. Dyslexic people, visually impaired, illiterate etc benefit from this. The current option is very limited because not every article has been recorded. In addition, the current recorded texts are quickly outdated, when an article is adapted the spoken text is not adapted. The shared knowledge becomes even more accessible.

6: High Priority, Wikipedia cannot stay behind.

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Gillesvanleeuwen

Response by Gillesvanleeuwen 10:48, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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To be able to encourage traffic and support free reuse of content, Wikipedia should become more accessible through better interaction design and good use of web 2.0 elements.

I believe the web is becoming more and more image and video oriented and this is the most effective way to communicate. Therefore I believe wikimedia projects and primarily wikipedia should become more visual and more visually attractive. I also believe wikipedia should become more accessible. To consume and reuse, but also to edit.

A simple note. I always use the mobile site on desktop, because to me this feels much more communicative. Less distraction and better reading experience. There is a lot to gain here. There are numerous examples on the web of wikipedia interaction design proposals and there are lots of people willing to help out in this area.

I'm not a stupid person. But the learning curve to be able to interacte or to edit wikipedia is way too high, too convoluted and complex.

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Voroninv

Response by Voroninv 16:40, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Voroninv — ответ на насущные вопросы

...пишите здесь… Не понял, что я должен был здесь написать.

I do not understand what I was supposed to write here.

Voroninv — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Мне нравятся 2, 3 и 5 подходы: лучше сначала изучить ситуацию, а уже потом действовать. --Voroninv (talk) 16:40, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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I like approaches 2, 3 and 5: better to study the situation, and only then act.

Jon E. Dalton

Response by Jon E. Dalton 16:52, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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I fully support numbers one and two as being the most likely effective means of expanding Wikipedia's outreach. Although I often consult the site to research other individuals, I am a newly subscribed account holder. I will make every effort to be supportive and innovative regarding the site.

John P. DeMas, PhD, SPHR (Jon E. Dalton)

Daveinrez

Response by Daveinrez 19:51, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here…APPROACH FOUR

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Koroleva Evgenia

Response by Koroleva Evgenia 19:58, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Koroleva Evgenia — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

1, 6 и 3 подходы.

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Antonio Ciezas

Response by Antonio Ciezas 20:07, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Antonio Ciezas a la pregunta crítica

...escriba aquí...

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Antonio Ciezas (o comparte tu propia idea)

...escriba aquí...2 6

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Gamerjnp

Response by Gamerjnp 20:40, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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its good

Tryptofish

Response by Tryptofish 20:57, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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2, 4, 1, in that order

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ThurnerRupert

Response by ThurnerRupert 21:48, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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...wikipedia did not become the most visited site because it encouraged traffic. it encouraged contents, which is loved. why should i waste my time to be longer on an internet site than i need to? if you want to increase traffic you build worse interfaces with more mouse clicks, etcetc. to put it short: wrong goal, wrong motivation.

Hi, the question is intended to be along the lines of: how do we continue to encourage the love for, and growth of, our contents? How do we keep the stream of new contributors coming to our sites whilst also working with other (external) sites and tools that reuse our content?

We (all!) want to spread high-quality knowledge more widely, and to more readers that we are not currently reaching. For example, in last year's strategy consultation, a large percentage of anonymous respondents expressed their desire for more infographics, video, audio, and more interactive educational tools (perhaps like the w:es:Hormiga de Langton widget or the mw:Extension:Graph/Demo#Vega 2.0 Interactive Examples). (I.e. Personally, I spend all my disposable income on books, but when I visit a science museum, I head for the interactive exhibits!) The intent is reader and contributor satisfaction, and also helping more potential contributors to find and take part in our projects. Hope that helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:48, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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...approach five, or six seem to be ok. as long as "improve" means gain efficiency, i.e. less traffic for the same output. approach seven would be to create new content, or content type. where can i put a video on how to make bred from growing the crop, mill, baking. with subtitles in 200 languages, and translated in 50 languages? i do not have the technology to produce it, nor to store it, nor to find it. where and how can i use parts of an article to create a book for a training course? how can i download parts of wikipedia as zim or epub and take it with me? all impossible or too difficult. and you guys worry about reach, forgetting the roots: content, and content techniques. a side question: how do you people make sure this proposal is read by a technical person who understands what it means, and does not sideline it as "too difficult"?

@ThurnerRupert: Hi. In reply to your side question: Many people are reading the responses, and each of us has different areas of familiarity or expertise. In this case, I think I know what you mean. (e.g. more work on things like mw:UploadWizard, c:Commons:Timed Text (translatable subtitles), and mw:Extension:Collection (book generation). Then, I interpret "use parts of an article to create a book for a training course" as a request for a new feature that allows crosswiki excerpt-transclusion from Wikipedia articles into Wikibooks/Wikiversity. Is that roughly correct, and could you elaborate a bit more, or point me to old/related discussions about it?). Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:48, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Metro man 27

Response by Metro man 27 23:53, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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one problem with wikipedia is that if you do not have an account you can still edit which has led to vandalism

=== Metro man 27's top 2-3 (or share your own idea) ===approach one, two, and six seem pretty good

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Rslocked

Response by Rslocked 00:42, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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I believe the best way to get more user traffic while maintaining the integrity of the Wikimedia organizations would have to be either a streamlined advertisement campaign highlighting more than just your Wikipedia project showing that you are much more than Wikipedia. This will showcase all the helpful projects Wikimedia produces like Wikidata and Wikispecies.

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Approach two in my opinion is paramount. Approach seven would be to revitalize Wikiversity; by removing the open source editing and to seek out a panel of credible editors to make higher education establishments acknowledge Wikiveristy as a viable research tool. This will target university students searching for research information, ultimately restoring proper traffic flow.

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Hayato7777777

Response by Hayato7777777 01:03, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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I think that many people use wikipedia, but most are unaware of the existance of wikimedia. Therefore, I think that wikimedia could be advertised on wikipedia's front pageand sidebars to increase awareness.

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1. Approach two: Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs.
2. Approach three: Understand how Wikimedia content is reused on external platforms and explore how to encourage users of such content to go to Wikimedia projects.
3. Approach five: Enable others to reuse our content and build their own products by improving and documenting our APIs (application programming interfaces).

Almonaster

Response by Almonaster 01:51, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… 2 and 3

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Abrimaal

Response by Abrimaal 03:39, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Odpowiedź użytkownika Abrimaal's na główne pytanie

Being registered for about 8 years and an editor for a year, I haven't created any new article, because I don't know how. It took a long time until I learned how to categorize media that I submit. I suggest a tutorial mode in-API displaying instructions what to do step by step to create, update articles, send media, learn syntax etc.

Główne 2-3 koncepcje wg użytkownila Abrimaal (albo podziel sie swoim pomysłem)

5

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Iopensa

Response by Iopensa 09:25, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Targeting specifically people who might enjoy writing an encyclopedia. Often we target people who do not really enjoy writing encyclopedias, but it does make sense to target specifically and with the right senso of humour that very nerd small percentage of humankind (maybe 1/3000 people). This is our community. it is healthy addressing diversity but maybe we actually need the people who get the work done.

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Bicaykapgel

Response by Bicaykapgel 13:13, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Bicaykapgel kullanıcısının kritik soruya yanıtı

...buraya yazınız ...

Bicaykapgel kullanıcısının seçtiği 2-3 (veya kendi fikinizi yazın)

... buraya yazınız ... 2-3-6

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StupidChangSonla

Response by StupidChangSonla 13:41, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

StupidChangSonla 對關鍵問題的回應

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StupidChangSonla 使用者的前2或前3優先順序（或分享您自己的想法）

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Fantomeoz

Response by Fantomeoz 13:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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1

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3 5

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Koz7291

Response by Koz7291 16:58, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

重要な問いかけに対する Koz7291 の答え

私はウィキペディア以外のウィキメディア・コンテンツについて、一体何のことかさっぱり分からない。私の周囲の人も、ほぼ例外なく同様のようだ。ダウンタウンの松本人志も、2009年M-1グランプリの決勝戦で、笑い飯の「『鳥人(とりじん)』をウィキペディアで調べなあかん」と言ったほどウィキペディアの認知度は高いが、他のウィキメディア・コンテンツの認知度は皆無に等しい。以上のように、ウィキペディアの認知度は驚くほど高い。アカウントを持っていないIPユーザーが圧倒的に多いと思われ、彼らは、共用のPCでウィキペディアを利用していることが多く、寄付の際に個人情報を送信することに抵抗を持っていると思われる。IPユーザーが寄付をしやすくする方策を、知恵を絞って考えることが、最重要だと思う。

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I don't know anything about Wikimedia projects other than Wikipedia. All people around me are also the same with almost no exception. Someone once said "you should look it up on Wikipedia" when a discussion about [2009M-1 some topic here] took place. This shows that the Wikipedia brand recognition is very high, but it's almost non-existent when it comes to other Wikimedia projects. There are many IP users that don't have accounts. They usually use common computers to edit Wikipedia, and they show resistence to giving personal information when they're asked for donations. It's important to find ways to make it easier for IP users to donate.

Pasanqt

Response by Pasanqt 19:19, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs.

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Great

Helveya

Response by Helveya 19:42, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 6 sounds best to me.

Callum radiator

Response by Callum radiator 20:18, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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The actual 'look' of WMF needs to be refined and updated. I think people can easily be put off by the complex look of the pages. More research needs to be done in finding out why there has been a decline. Go to next topic area (Communities)

Meltingwood

Response by Meltingwood 21:36, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Connection is vital for any wiki, so I really admire the attention drawn to reaching the world. Esperanto is excellent for that purpose.

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Approach 7: I propose for an increased effort to improve the Esperanto Wikipedia to better promote an unbiased, international wiki. Being the easiest language in the world to learn, Esperanto allows a person who speaks an obscure indigenous language to access important information. All this can also help further the Esperanto movement (generally good). Wikimedia will be the largest supporter of the Esperanto language since the League of Nations if this proposal is taken seriously. Meltingwood (talk)

@Meltingwood: Hi, I just wanted to link you to Esperanto kaj Libera Scio, in case you hadn't seen it already. Hope that helps. :-) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:25, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

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Dmitry Dzhagarov

Response by Dmitry Dzhagarov 22:33, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Dmitry Dzhagarov — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Подход второй: Подход третий

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The second approach: The third approach

Собственная идея

Разработать на базе программного обеспечения Вики унифицированную персональную электронную карту здоровья. Такая разработка в скором времени может стать нужнее и популярнее Windows во всем мире.

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Own idea

Designed based on Wiki software unified personal electronic health card. Such a development could soon become more necessary and popular than Windows worldwide.

NinjaRobotPirate

Response by NinjaRobotPirate 05:50, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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As long as readers find the information they want, Wikipedia has succeeded in its primary goal. It shouldn't matter whether readers find it on Wikipedia's website, through syndication of content, or whatever. When users don't know that the answer they found comes from Wikipedia, this is a problem, as it limits their choice of whether to contribute back to Wikipedia in some way.

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• Approach 1. This seems kind of vague, but offering additional ways to find content sounds good, as long as we're not talking about sweeping, unilateral changes to Wikipedia's "user experience" that may drive off long-term contributors.
• Approach 2. Listening to the community is a big part of serving its needs, and if the community feels that it is not being listened to, the WMF should find a way to reassure it. Also, finding out why people leave is just as important as finding out why they stay.
• Approach 5. It's not important where the answer comes from, as long as readers find the answer. As a part of this, the WMF may need to publicize that Wikipedia is the source of the content.

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Cwenrich13

Response by Cwenrich13 10:02, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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A possible way forward could be to build a 'shell' or something like a 'desktop portal' that sits atop of the the entire base where users can have a front end they control. So when the front end is in use the GUI they customized remains over all the requested sites with in WikiMedia's core group of implementations.

A rough idea I have would be to 'build' or simply restructure an already functioning lightweight web browser that is readily extensible and in optimum circumstances already using up-to-date or near future coding. In the front end:

• user information
• integrated text editor such that it is always available
  • using this possibly being able to assign a seperate text doc to each page that includes 'meta-data'-'WikiMarkup'-esqu language as both its, the doc's, textual content but also so any added annotations can be saved for later reading
• integrated annotation tools that only interact with the front end, or client-side, and allows possibly for sharing
  • could bring another level of social interactions if you can see what others find interesting and have a conversation on it
  • This idea seams to be used nicely, only used for a few hours, by the exstension Hypothesis (https://hypothes.is)
• simple utilities with or with out being plugins or exstensions
• caches of recently viewed pages
  • with ability to adjust this atribute

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Listed in order: Approach Five Approach Three Approach Six

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Monopoly31121993

Response by Monopoly31121993 10:21, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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4,6,7

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The focus should be on the Global South but limiting their focus two countries creates new hierarchies within the Global South. The emphasis should be to create opportunities for editors from the Global South while not creating more inequality amongst the least advantaged. This is an old problem for development so it would not be justifiable for Wikipedia to fall into the same old trap just because they didn't do their basic homework on development strategies. I suggest public awareness campaigns (advertisements) across the Global South. It's very cheap to buy ads in these places and any expenses are being spent in the local economy. That's an easy way to raise awareness and it doesn't mean you have to fly some editors half way around the world to do anything.Monopoly31121993 (talk) 10:21, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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Arvidex

Response by Arvidex 11:03, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Arvidexs svar på den centrala frågan

1

Arvidexs topp 2–3 (eller dela med dig av din egen lösning)

5, 2

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Xatlass

Response by Xatlass 14:26, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach two and five

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Drahtloser

Response by Drahtloser 15:10, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Drahtloser auf die Hauptfrage

Verweise auf akademische Wörterbücher und akademische Materialsammlungen wären sachdienlich. Sie würden den Anspruch, alles in Wikimedia sammeln zu wollen auf ein besser finanzierbares Maß senken. Das sollte fremsprachige Sammlungen einschließen, soweit diese international und öffetlich zugänglich sind.

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References to academic dictionaries and academic collections of material would be useful. They would reduce the claim to want to collect everything in Wikimedia on a better and financially viable measure. This should include foreign language collections, insofar as these are international and publicly accessible.

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Drahtloser

Limit the option of plea to th necessary qualities. It should be possible to limit the objections by purists ("delete") and of compactores ("merge") to uthors that qualified as well informed and capable to segregate. The tolerance of Eglish speaking authors appears better tolerant based on better education.

Beteigeuze Orion Riegel

Response by Beteigeuze Orion Riegel 17:42, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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approach one and two

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Atulkherde

Response by Atulkherde 18:09, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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...What do you think is the best way to encourage traffic to come to our projects while also supporting free, external content reuse?

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...My idea: Wikipedia runs the risk of compromising its authenticity by running after increasing traffic. If the perception of authenticity, neutrality and accuracy is compromised, we run the risk of loosing our core value. This should NOT be an area of priority.

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Lineagegeek

Response by Lineagegeek 20:02, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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Rakyef

Response by Rakyef 20:48, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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two four five

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Osorioroque

Response by Osorioroque 04:12, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Osorioroque a la pregunta crítica

1, 5, 6

Hollth

Response by Hollth 08:51, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… Two, three and six. The first two because the knowledge of why and how will enable better future reach strategies and six because I suspect the shift to mobile is one of the primary reason for the drop. If this last point is not found to be the case then I would support a different method. Hollth (talk) 08:51, 7 February 2016 (UTC) Go to next topic area (Communities)

Hendrikvander

Response by Hendrikvander 10:03, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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Three

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Find a respected public figure/celebrity to endorse Wikimedea. Go to next topic area (Communities)

Glavkos

Response by Glavkos 11:49, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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It's not a matter of the medium, so I reject approach six: Mobiile apps are bringing only tiny contributions and noise, than real content. I think that this approach has been used before and I doubt that we had any substantial results.

Approach four: the rest of the world we call Global South has much more serious problem instead of creating content for us. If the creation of content could be one of the solutions to their everyday problems, that could be a huge

success and a win-win situation.

We should have more targeted goals to specific goups of people who have both the time, the interest and the courage to contribute. They might be elderly people who have plenty of time or polyglots who have the ability to traslate easily. Whatever it is we must focus our attention on that. Nothing is going to change if we are not going to put our efforts and imagination to create new incentives for people to be part of our community.

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Of course I support the approach three & five : if the content is reused more frequently and more and more people use our content that will bring more users in the long run.

Thuthu77

Response by Thuthu77 13:59, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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Taking into account all the approaches, I have to choose strategy one as the most viable solution needed for Wikimedia right now. I say this because it is the opinion of many that Wikimedia content needs to be even more modern and user friendly than it is now. That being said, i also like the overall ideas in approaches two and three as they will also help in making the Wikimedia platform better.

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For my own idea, I was thinking Wikimedia platform and it's contents could benefit a lot if they were engaged with social media. As we all know social media platforms have become the most popular usage of internet today with many other online sites using them to their advantages. I know all Wikimedia content is ad free and only rely on individual donations, but i feel that there has to be some way to connect Wikimedia platforms with social media without changing so much that makes Wikimedia what it is today. I hope my input here has been helpful.

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ArnoldReinhold

Response by ArnoldReinhold 20:44, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

ArnoldReinhold's response to the critical question

I would support Approach 2 first, but with more specific questions. I don't think we can solve the problem without a better understanding of what is going on. I would specifically like to know how much of the reported drop in readership is due to various causes, such as political censorship in certain countries, users going to sites that mirror our content, lack of compatibility with available devices, such as inexpensive smart phones, frustration with using the mobile app, language issues or general lack of access to the Internet.

ArnoldReinhold's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

One possibility would be a low bandwidth edition of Wikipedia, perhaps with thumbnail images, for dumb phones. Another might be language-specific sneaker-net editions that could be distributed on thumb drives or pre-loaded on obsolete second hand smart phones that could serve as hand-held encyclopedias.

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Topperfalkon

Response by Topperfalkon 21:21, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Topperfalkon's response to the critical question

Approach one seems broad, but also covers areas I think WM struggles with. In particular, assistance with editing is hard to find, and browsing Wikipedia (or any Mediawiki app) is difficult because it's not clearly structured

Topperfalkon's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach two, because knowing what the problem is makes solving it a lot easier

Approach five, because better APIs makes it easier for everyone to make the best use of Wikimedia content

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HHill

Response by HHill 22:19, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

HHill's response to the critical question

Anecdotal evidence tells me that many of our good and featured articles on Wikipedia are way to long (some even reaching book length) and detailed for many if not most use cases. It might be well worth researching this and sharing the results with the communities. Perhaps we should strive to be more concise and rather write several articles on related topics instead of creating one long and all-encompassing article.

Another possible approach to make content on the Wikimedia projects more visible is striving for more machine readable metadata. One goal could be making it possible for books and shorter texts transcribed on Wikisource or scanned on Commons to potentially show up in meta catalogues such as the KVK.

We certainly shouldn't strive to become simply yet another addictive app for smartphones.

HHill's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach two
• Approach four
• Approach three

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Kein Einstein

Response by Kein Einstein 09:54, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Kein Einstein auf die Hauptfrage

1

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Kein Einstein

6

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Tar Lócesilion

Response by Tar Lócesilion 03:44, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Tar Lócesilion's response to the critical question

A typical ‘every single human being’, who our content is to be distributed to eventually, doesn't care about the contributors, our communities, or our Movement (neither did we before we became Wikimedians). He/she only uses the tools we provide to him/her (our projects), and if we want him/her to be attracted with the tools, we have to make them look not so last century at the minimum. We should take into account that a typical ‘every single human being’ does not distinguish between the interface defined globally and locally, WMF scope, wikis scope etc. - his/her experience is single. WMF could modernize ‘its’ part of the interface more boldly.

...while also supporting free, external content reuse - remain free, communicate that clearly (and maybe some API stuff, I'm not really into that level of our tech side).

Tar Lócesilion's top 2-3

Strong support for Approach 1. Additionally, 2 and 6.

69.144.93.138

Response by 69.144.93.138 09:16, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

69.144.93.138's response to the critical question

Return to the almost forgotten original strengths and core vision of WP instead of destroying it via evolution away from them. See below.

69.144.93.138's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Priority 1: Approach 7: Stop hemorrhaging competent editors (and readers both) by blind, slavish insistence on process over truth, meaning the current policy of prioritizing pseudo-credible secondary or "official" sources over basic, simple, truth-prioritized process-oriented holistic balance. So for instance say the article on the Roswell crash. Current lead is, military came out fifty years later and said weather balloon crash, end of story. If someone then tries to simply add NPOV by saying, "Military sources say x, other researchers say y," the current WP policies almost exclusively prioritize citing the same outrageous military and political liars, excuse me, "sources" that said we have to invade Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, and Libya because of WMD's and terrorism - over highly competent PhD's who challenge the official story, just because the latter can be giggle-factored away - under WP policy! - as "fringe". So if Wikipedia wants to be a tool of comically manipulable existing sociopolitical power structures instead of a tool in the hands of the people simply trying to reach the truth with honest method, with no dogmatic agenda, go ahead, your "policies" are disgusting and losing us in your base (readers and editors) by the tens or hundreds of thousands. By sacrificing inclusionism to self-consciousness, you totally betray your duty to truth, and that ultimately always bites you in the butt. "WP is not Britannica" is a now almost completely forgotten principle. I and others like me, who used to work hard and passionately at this project, almost don't bother coming back any more. Does anyone really care - or wonder why we've lost almost all enthusiasm for supporting the Foundation than we were years ago? Seen any decline lately? Ever wonder the real reasons why? Be honest with yourselves: you've almost completely lost the vision.

Priority 2: Approach 2. Does it really seem that hard to figure out - like the private sector grasps - that if you have no people base, you have nothing, as in zero?

Priority 3: Approach 4. This is the closest thing again in this list to putting people and the collective intelligence first over the agenda/idiocy of those who secure position in WP and then feel licensed to dictate "policy" because they axiomatically know better than all the rest of the morons that make up the world, so the ends justify the means, and if the patient dies, well the operation was still a success  :-/ :-/  :-/

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Quark

Response by Quark 01:28, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Quark auf die Hauptfrage

Konstante Verbesserung des Inhalt auf verlässlicher Basis, dabei aber Berücksichtigung des Themengebiets (wissenschaftlicher Artikel anders als Behandlung eines Ereignisses).

Oder ist hier gemeint: Welchen Ansatz präferiere Ich? Dann Ansatz zwei.

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Continuous improvement of the content on a reliable basis, but considering the subject area (scientific articles rather than handling of an event).

Or does this mean: What approach do I prefer? Then approach two.

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Quark

Top 2-3 ist mir gerade nicht klar, warum Tagesordnung? Finde Ich hier nicht. Deshalb eigene Ideen:

Der Umgangston ist unterirdisch. So würde sich niemand in einer mündlichen Diskussion äußern. Wenn man da kein hartes Fell hat sagt man einfach LMAA. Das hilft aber nicht. Es gibt zwar unverbesserliche Trolle, aber Ich sehe oft unbeholfene (dann nicht mehr zukünftige) Mitarbeiter die aus dem Projekt gedrängt werden wegen Unfähigkeit. Dabei ist Willen zur Mitarbeit durchaus auch wichtig. Hier gibt es ja Mentoren die eventuell helfen könnten, das ist aber im Gegensatz zu Belegen informell.

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Top 2-3 is not clear to me, what is the agenda? It doesn't reach me. Therefore, my own ideas:

The tone is underground. So no one would speak in an oral discussion. If there has no hard coat simply says LMAA. But that does not help. While there are incorrigible trolls, but I often (not more then future) look clumsy employees who are pushed out of the project because of incompetence. It will be quite important to cooperate, too. Here there are mentors who could eventually help, but that is unlike informal documents.

Ad Huikeshoven

Response by Ad Huikeshoven 14:23, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Ad Huikeshoven's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

While Wikimedia content has been increasingly reused by others, traffic to Wikimedia projects has been decreasing since 2013. This is a severe challenge, because fewer people will explore related content, have the chance to become contributors, or donate. Declining reach is a significant risk to the movement’s relevance, sustainability and the way we operate, and thus to our shared vision of reaching every human being.

Wikipedia is read by wealthy and well educated people, who have (multiple) devices with broad band access to internet. Reach is inversely related to webpage load time. Engineers of the Wikimedia Foundation can reduce load time, I know from @Krinkle:. Wikipedia and other WMF sites continue to reach hundreds of million readers each month. Don't worry too much about reach. Don't worry too much about donations. In the history of the WMF the banner fundraiser collected always the targeted amount within the specified time frame. I have never heard our American woman in Paris working remotely for the WMF complain about feasibility of fundraiser targets, @MeganHernandez (WMF):. Yes, the WMF has hit a fundraiser ceiling with some 70 million dollar collected last year. I don't doubt the WMF can collect 70 million dollar each year through a banner fundraiser. Our readers expect high quality content, including rich content such as video, graphs, maps and infographics. Our readers really like to read human generated and curated content. The Wikimedia Foundation has a double endowment of a multilingual collection of million articles and a global community of some seventy thousand active unpaid volunteer editors. Be grateful for that double endowment, and thank your volunteers every day. Forget about a monetary endowment: you don't need it, it is a bad idea, and non-profit watchers in the USA don't see developing a monetary endowment as a good idea; they want to see non-profits actually spend the collected donations on impactful programs that support the mission of the non-profit.

Ad Huikeshoven's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

• 2: Improve our understanding of how and why our users come to and stay on our projects so we can better serve their needs.
• 7a: Reduce webpage load time
• 7b: Support chapters in doing outreach in their area; acknowledge their outreach programs as impactful. Learn from community management theory and practice. The education program converts one in a hundred participants into a recurring editor after six months. Review what other online communities accomplish in this respect. Learn to accept such a conversion rate as a massive and huge success. There aren't other programs with a higher conversion rate. Normal conversion rates are ten times lower.

Romaine

Response by Romaine 05:13, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Romaine's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

Adjust the software in such a way that it better fits with the social needs a lot of possible participants need/would like. In the real world people form groups in what they work together. This you see in the company where they work, in the activities they do, in sports, and so on. For centuries! Since the begin of mankind. We need to support this in some way.

It is possible to think about more wikiprojects, but that is very very very primitive and not user friendly in multiple ways. People like to help each other, like to work together on a subject, like to follow what other users in a group do, like to communicate in a group, like to form a group.

This does not mean that the things as they are now need to change, it is just a part that is missing and needs to be added.

It will result in more female participants, in more collaboration, in better articles, and more articles.

Romaine's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

Approaches 2 and 6: we still know too little about what people really need and can be reached + more and more people become mobile, this certainly needs improvement to reach more people easier.

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Popo le Chien

Response by Popo le Chien 08:40, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Popo le Chien's response to the critical question

There are two separate problems: access to knowledge and traffic to Foundation's website. I believe you can strike two birds with one stone by making sure that whoever reuses content gets the attribution right (and prominent). Maybe strike deals or do some aggressive lawyering, or both.

Popo le Chien's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 4 and 6 are the most logical ones and complement each other.

• Approach four: Global South country have high mobile penetration and low internet connectivity. It seems to me in that case that m:Kiwix (offline Wikipedia) is the way to go. You create a reader base that can already access knowledge, thereby creating brand awareness for Wikimedia projects for the day they finally get internet access. Kiwix, in essence, prepares the next generation of users. Question: why two Global South countries in the question?

• Approach six: Mobile editing is not practical (it's improved, but not there yet). Work on it.

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Ghilt

Response by Ghilt 09:14, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Ghilt's response to the critical question

Find out which readers are looking for which type of content, and find out how not to traumatize your content creators (authors). Stick to pro bono (yay!) and stay away from grants by companies (nay! it's in effect a service contract). Wikipedians are quite independent and would like their project to stay that way, due to not being paid and contributing for a greater cause.

Ghilt's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 2, 3, and 6

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Discott

Response by Discott 22:03, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Discott's response to the critical question

This is an important issue that needs addressing. In my view it largely has to do with two things. One is the saturation of people in developed countries who are likely interested in participating in Wikipedia. Most people who might be inclined to edit Wikipedia are already editing Wikipedia. The Second one is that because Wikipedia has a lower profile as a main stay of the internet (its novelty value with the media has worn off) increasingly fewer people are aware that anyone can edit Wikipedia and even fewer are aware that the general public is invited/welcome to do so. The highly bureaucratised nature of en.wikipedia does not help in this regard.

Discott's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. Approach 4 is my primary choice: as it is the most obvious source of 'untapped' potential new editors and there is a great deal of content people from the 'South' (like myself) can write about. In my experiance here in South Africa very few people are aware that they can edit Wikipedia and even fewer are aware that there is a need for new editors. Even fewer are aware that they can edit in languages other than English like in their local language (ie. Xhosa). There seems to be a common belief that Wikipedia editors are paid staff in the same way historical encyclopaedias were written.
2. Approach 3 is my secondary choice: increasing awareness should help for the reasons expanded upon in my other answers.
3. A suggested approach I have is to find partner organisations (such as Library networks, professional organisations/groups representing professions, groups representing cultural/historial/social groups) that have a significant membership that is relevant to the particular projects and work with them to 1) inform their members/networks that they can edit Wikipedia and 2) how they can get involved. Wikimedia ZA has found this approach to be a productive way to introduce large groups of interested and enthusiastic people to Wikipedia and contribute on particular topics.

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Ashaio

Response by Ashaio 20:58, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Ashaio's response to the critical question

The most effective way to increase reach is a high position in search engines' results and we already have that. But that only works on people who already have basic information literacy. So in my opinion promoting information literacy in general (for example in some countries of the Global South) is another great way to increase reach, and that's why I support approach 4.

Ashaio's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach 2 (also its negative version: "how and why our non-users don't stay on our projects") and 4. Also approach 1.

NickK

Response by NickK 01:12, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

NickK's response to the critical question

The problem of Wikimedia content has been increasingly reused by others, traffic to Wikimedia projects has been decreasing can be decomposed into two parts:

1. People getting same content as on Wikipedia but on a different website. We have a lot of mirrors of Wikipedia and we should really look into them: are any of them successful (i.e. a non-negligible amount of people seriously prefers a mirror to Wikipedia) and if yes, what are their advantages compared to Wikipedia? I suppose some people might prefer a different interface (e.g. Wikiw**d) or cheaper access (e.g. better mobile interface or local traffic instead of international one), so it would make sence to make a research on this.
2. People getting a summary of Wikipedia content but do not need any further information. This is typically what happens with Google search results where people do not click on the link to Wikipedia. We have very powerful Wikidata but we do not use it well enough (and one can hardly find it in Google results), so we should find a way to promote it and make Wikidata-based tools more user-friendly.

Then we have a lot of cases that have nothing to do with our content being reused by others:

• people who voluntarily do not use Wikipedia. Many people, particularly in academia, do not use Wikipedia because they do not find it reliable enough. We should find the key concerns and help communities address them (e.g. involving experts, obtaining permissions for high-quality sources, developing Wikimedia Library-like services etc.) in order to improve the image of Wikipedia
• people who do not know that Wikipedia exists (or they don't know they can edit it). This is typically the case of people who have limited experience using Internet, including all our key concerns like people from Global South or rural areas in Global North, elderly people, minorities, people without higher education etc. We should look into efficient ways to promote our projects to these groups, with some approaches that can work worldwide (e.g. workshops for senior citizens), while others should be done by people with good knowledge of local context (typically promotion in East Asia, Latin America and Subsaharan Africa would require very different strategies). Ideally joint efforts with local affiliates would be much more successful than WMF efforts only.
• people who know Wikipedia but don't edit it. Well, here it's quite simple: they already know what it is, we should motivate them to edit it. And it is complicated as we have a quite difficult community, but that should be discussed in another section.
• people who know about Wikipedia but not about sister projects. Our sister projects (Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews) etc. all have a serious problem: they are much less known to an average user. For instance, Wikivoyage is very far from being a reference website: other user-generated websites like Tripadvisor are much more popular, so what we can do to make people choose Wikivoyage? Or Wiktionaries and Wikisources in some languages have quite good content: can we promote their usage in schools for Language and Literature classes? Or perhaps show to a casual user that they can look for a word in some 100 languages on Wiktionary or download a free book on their tablet on Wikisource? We should find a way to make these project better known and improve their usage — NickK (talk) 01:12, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

NickK's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. Approach 2, and in addition try to find new ways to make people stay on our projects.
2. Approach 3
3. Approach 6 (in particular making editing more friendly on mobile)

Note: I have left a comment above Approach 4 (see #What is behind "two Global South countries"?). I would have supported a more general approach covering entire Global South or all minorities, but I strongly oppose any project targeting only two countries as I do not see any evidence that lessons were learned from the previous two countries (Brazil and India). WMF should encourage local affiliates to do outreach work in Global South instead by supporting community development and sharing best practices — NickK (talk) 01:12, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Papischou

Response by Papischou 08:29, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Papischou's response to the critical question

...write here…

Papischou's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. Approach 4 : The foundation should increase the numbers of the countries.
2. Approach 6 & 2

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Mizardellorsa

Response by Mizardellorsa 10:57, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Mizardellorsa's response to the critical question

Fruibilità dei testi anche da parte degli ipovedenti

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Usability of the texts also by visually impaired

Mizardellorsa's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I dati delle varie organizzazioni segnalano che il numero delle persone con seri problemi visivi è estremamente alto. Per quello che riguarda gli E-book in italia per i testi sotto copyright il progetto L.I.A. ha perfezionato il modo di produrre libri digitali usufruibili pienamente dagli ipovedenti. Per quello che riguarda i testi Creative Commons manca ancora una esperienza simile che potrebbe essere realizzata nell'ambito di Wikisource. E' ovvio che, imparate le regole per realizzare testi accessibili, si potrebbe esportare il concetto anche agli altri progetti Wikimedia.

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The data from different organizations report that the number of people with serious visual problems is extremely high. As for e-books in Italian for copyrighted texts the L.I.A. project has perfected a way to produce digital books fully usable by the visually impaired. As for the lyrics Creative Commons still lacks such an experience that could be conducted as part of Wikisource. It obvious that you learn the rules to make accessible texts, you could export the concept to other Wikimedia projects.

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Pakeha

Response by Pakeha 11:01, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Pakeha's response to the critical question

Increase usage of Offline Wikipedia because it's available also in remote places of the Global South and not restricted by local censorship.

Pakeha's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach 2, 3, 4 and 6.

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Charles Matthews

Response by Charles Matthews 19:29, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Charles Matthews's response to the critical question

Approach Five makes sense to me. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:29, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Charles Matthews's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

In the big picture, connect curiosity with linked structured data via "questions as data". Challenge our "consumers" more actively, in other words. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:29, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

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Alexmar983

Response by Alexmar983 23:09, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Alexmar983's response to the critical question

If you want to improve Wikipedia mobile apps, start with tablets. I have done something with tablets with newbies, it is still manageble. Well, it is not actually but it could be. "adapting user experience to their needs" is not bad, but it is too vague to be effective. In case, "making more of Wikimedia content easier to find" is the key, whilst "increasing language coverage" is a content strategy, you just can't play with content too much. Also I don't know if it's politically correct but I don't expect a lot from the "Global South" approach, and what do you want to do exactely? If you want to create a new chapter just scroll some wikimetrics and choose a target from Africa, South-East Asia or South America, possibly with a stable political situation. We should focus on the success, we can't waste money for prestige, we need results.

Alexmar983's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

The best options are strategic approaches 5, 3, 2.

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AVrana (WMF)

Response by AVrana (WMF) 23:38, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

AVrana (WMF)'s response to the critical question

Approach 1 and 2 seem to be part of the same question/goal. We need to understand people's needs within and outside the Wikimedia projects, especially Wikipedia in order to improve our user experience. These 2 approaches should be addressed together. We can't create, deliver and improve product if we don't know what people's needs are. That said, we have a lot to learn and understand about the new Global South users coming online and to Wikipedia. For example, we need to know how and where people are looking for knowledge and information; what they value, how they can access it, and so on. Approach 3 is also important to us but we won't be successful without doing a good job on 1 and 2. We need to make sure people will find what they are looking in the our sites if we want to invest on strategies to drive traffic back to us. New users won't stay if their needs are not being met.

AVrana (WMF)'s top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach 4 poorly introduces a critical issue to improve our reach. Awareness is key to usage, to retention, to growth and we have seen a significant lack of awareness in the Global South countries. If new users don't know we exist and what we are good for they won't come to us to read, to edit, to use mobile web or apps. IMO, we should have a clearer goal to improve awareness in the GS. I don't think we should limit this to 2 countries. We can run pilots in a selected number of countries but this effort should be coordinated and resourced accordingly to guarantee results across the board. Partnerships, communications and product should play a major role here along with our Global South communities.

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Aegis Maelstrom

Response by Aegis Maelstrom 23:59, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Aegis Maelstrom's response to the critical question

It is funny you are asking about increasing viewership and reuse but not about the contribution which is IMHO more and more lacking - but O.K., let's assume it is taken with the Knowledge question.

Issue no. 4: I find it a bit patronizing. In 2016, I don't think there is an overly big difference in terms of a brand recognition etc. among geographical areas; I think that many people everywhere are not conscious how to contribute or how to reuse (or that they can contribute or reuse) wikicontent. In other important metrics like the personal income and personal time they can use for wikiprojects, Internet access or cultural issues (how much they are willing to share) there is very little we can do with the resources we have. Ofc we should educate about FLOSS principles and make it a priority in places where this knowledge is obscure - but I don't think it is an only a "Global South" problem.

Other thing is, some wikiprojects make it hard to reuse: especially Wikimedia Commons, where a proper content is hard to find and the UX is very old-fashioned and non-obvious for many people.

Aegis Maelstrom's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach numer 2: the research should be always the starting point and I think we have a very limited understanding of non-hardcore-Wikimedians ad 2016, especially young mobile users or other underrepresented demographics (like age gap).

Approach seven: revamp Commons: transfer it to Wikidata, replace categories with tags, internationalize it, give it a modern UI and make it easy to find needed materials.

Approach 1 & 6: they are pretty similar and needed (where 6 is a subset of one - and we can do a lot with other usage scenarios than "mobile" - be it automotives or even traditional desktops where we can toy with content presentation distant from a traditional linear encyclopedic text.

Approach five is strategically controversial: it can be both an opportunity and a self-made threat if some external vendor takes our resources (both content and server time) and isolate us and our values from the users.