[Foundation-l] Wikipedias by page views

Mon Mar 31 17:41:24 UTC 2008

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> Inspired by the Wikimania thread, I decided to work out approximately how
>  much traffic each language of Wikipedia gets.  I totaled the top 1000 page
>  views for February at http://stats.grok.se/ for each of the Wikipedia
>  communities and arrived at the following list:

One thing to keep in mind is that languages imply countries far less
than people assume.  There are quite a few languages where US
readership is comparable to or larger than the obvious countries for
that language.

Some old breakdown data:

http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org/wikipedia-viewer-matrix.html

The graph is log scale because otherwise you can pretty much only see
the largest project and country.