Just arrived here from a link at the 2021 Wikimania conference programme, and it struck me that there's nowhere there, or here, that gives any examples of the size range of Wikimedia projects which fall within and outside the term 'medium-sized'. I'm sure many people would find that clarification helpful? ~~~~
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Great question! This is something we're currently discussing, because we're not sure where the boundaries are just yet. We want to focus our research on projects which are currently growing in size, where perhaps the active editor community is feeling overwhelmed by the content moderation workload they're now having to contend with. In that sense we're not so interested in the biggest Wikis like English or German, where there is already a myriad of moderation tooling and processes in place (granted, much of it community maintained or a mess of hard-to-find templates). We've also ruled out the smallest projects where Global Sysops and the Small Wiki Monitoring Team are the ones doing most of the moderation.
This leaves us with an as-yet vaguely defined region in the middle. We're digging into some data over the coming weeks to try to put some focus on that, at which point I might be able to provide some more concrete numbers about the kinds of projects we're focusing on.
Regardless of that, we are still interested in hearing from anyone with something to say on the topic :)