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From: "Erik Zachte" <e.p.zachte(a)chello.nl>
To: "Wikipedia-L" <wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:47:14 +0100
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Polish Wikipedia relatively most succesful, German second
Of course there are a myriad ways to measure succes of each Wikipedia.
For what it's worth I tried to establish the ratio of active contributors
per million internet users that speak that language.
So per language the figure shows that one of x thousand native speakers with
internet access contributed to Wikipedia in that language
Polish 22
German 31
Dutch 39
Hebrew 40
Danish 44
Swedish 49
Catalan 49
French 49
Finnish 51
English 53
Norwegian 55
Hungarian 94
Romanian 109
Slovenian 117
Italian 166
Japanese 168
Czech 216
Spanish 236
Vietnamese 367
Greek 386
Portugues 431
Russian 638
Chinese 687
Turkish 725
Arabic 870
Malay 967
Korean 2920
For contributors I used wikistats Feb 26 (counts registered users > 10
edits)
For internet users per language I used figures from Global Reach (2003)
http://global-reach.biz/globstats/index.php3
Of course I don't know how exact these figures are,
but I assume they did some homework.
Note : the GR figures list >native< speakers, so actually languages with
international appeal would show lower participation ratios (higher numbers
in the table) if all web users that might be inclined to use that language
were taken into account.
E.g. GR mentions India specifically as a country where the web language is
English and not Hindi.
Erik Zachte
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