Research talk:Newsletter/2013/August

Comparing the usage of global and local Wikipedias with focus on Swedish Wikipedia

I admit I've not yet read the paper, but I suppose it is obvious that you cannot extend the results about Swedish Wikipedia to weaker communities/languages such as the Indian languages, right? Moreover, the study can measure only what happens when an article exists in sv.wiki first, which excludes the less lucky occasions when an article of interest for Swedish speakers exists only in English: do articles existing in English affect the likelihood for an equivalent to be created in another language? Another question (for which I should read the paper) is whether they compared apple and oranges or only articles of comparable quality: if the English article is just a stub (rather than a full translation) and/or very recent (hence not linked, not well indexed etc.) it's no surprise that it doesn't attract much traffic. --Nemo 08:00, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

RAW

For a French-language summary of some items from this issue, see the "Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia" from September 6. Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 06:58, 27 September 2013 (UTC)