Research:Mobile-heavy wikis
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Mobile-heavy wikis is a segment of wikis defined in July 2018 by the Wikimedia Foundation's Audiences department for use in metrics reporting. The intent is to form a list of projects which are serving knowledge-deprived populations, based on the idea that people who have limited access to desktop computers likely have limited access to knowledge generally.
List
[edit]The canonical list is available on GitHub in the wikimedia-research/canonical-data repo. Here's a copy:
- Hindi Wikipedia
- Bangla Wikipedia
- Indonesian Wikipedia
- Arabic Wikipedia
- Marathi Wikipedia
- Persian Wikipedia
- Swahili Wikipedia
- Tagalog Wikipedia
- Chinese Wikiquote
- Thai Wikipedia
- Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
- Malayalam Wikipedia
- Tamil Wikipedia
- Kannada Wikipedia
- Portuguese Wiktionary
- Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- Gujarati Wikipedia
- Kyrgyz Wikipedia
- Albanian Wikipedia
- Malay Wikipedia
Methodology
[edit]- Limit to projects with 10 or more monthly active editors.
- Sort by mobile web pageviews proportion.
- Take the top 20, removing Italian Wikipedia, Italian Wikiquote, Italian Wiktionary, and Japanese Wikipedia because Italian and Japanese speakers are unlikely to be knowledge-deprived (unlike, say, French or English speakers, because those languages have at least some use in the Global South).