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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago- most data on WMF servers is media files, most of them photos; Wikimedia Commons has at this point nearly 100 million of those; probably still less than many social media sites, though
- this is true, but many people on social media are also only lurkers
- the WMF projects get lots of changes every minute, just look at the recent changes page
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
The “rule” of social media is that users split 1%/9%/90% on creators (prolific posters), participants (comments and reshares content that might be interesting to them) and lurkers (don’t necessarily signup and only visit to read). That means that we have 200 times more “active” (0.05% vs 10%) users on social media relative to wikipedia. The operational costs and the staff required to moderate these sites should follow this proportion as well.