The state of the Wikimedia movement
Phoebe AyersWikimedia Foundation Board of
TrusteesMay 31, 2014
Wikiconference USA
I use Wikipedia to live my life.
-- donor comment, 2013 fundraiser
495M Unique Visitors / March 2014
Half from Europe and North America, half from the rest of the world
mobile
Oliver Keyes and Toby Negrin, May 1 2014 WMF Metrics Meeting
desktop
31M articles in Wikipedia (globally)
21M files on Commons
On the English Wikipedia:
Top 5,000 articles = 19% of all traffic
From Andrew West: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:5000 andhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-02-04/Special_report
32K active editors/month in English WP
wikidata
WLM
English Wikipedia active editors. From Halfaker et al, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline
6K new editors per month in en:wp: but they’re not staying
And some other languages…
• Spanish Wikipedia: 4,086 • Chinese Wikipedia: 2,188• Hindi Wikipedia: 44• Swahili Wikipedia: 9• Javanese Wikipedia: 7(Active editors/month in March 2014, from stats.wikimedia.org)
Getting together
• 40 chapters• 1 thematic organization• 11 usergroups • (at least) 38 meetups globally in June
2014• 1 big annual conference• (and lots of smaller ones)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Courses75 current classes (spring 2014 term)
What’s the community focusing on?
●Articles, data, books, travel guides…
●Quality ●Outreach ●Partnerships and GLAM●Tools
What’s the WMF focusing on?
• Technical platform• Supporting editors
Mobile & Wikipedia Zero
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
What’s next?
Our big questions
How to… • Maintain a vibrant community• Provide access for all • Turn readers into editors• Maintain and improve quality • Ensure the future of the free and
open knowledge ecosystem
How we’ll get there
• Iterative strategy• Many experiments• Community project support • Stable platforms• Advocacy• Better data
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely
share in the sum of all knowledge. - Wikimedia’s vision
statement
Thank you
I extend my heartfelt thanks to the men and women who
tirelessly work on keeping Wikipedia the wonderful website it is.
-- Donor comment, 2013 fundraiser
Discussion?Phoebe Ayers
Top Related