[Foundation-l] Wikipedias by page views

Mon Mar 31 19:08:26 UTC 2008

I had put together this table, using "active wikipedians" from
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm - though, the enwiki numbers are
outdated, it's still a useful comparison and hopefully we will get updated
stats with the recent enwiki dump.
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Anyway, here is the table, which is active wikipedians in relation to the
number of speakers of the language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_by_speakers (still need to re-run
with these numbers)

So, while Arabic is one of the top five most widely spoken languages, it is
well down on this list in terms of participation on the arwiki.    Spanish
is also further down on the list, than it should be.  Chinese languages are
down on the list, similar to the arwiki.  And notice the various languages
of India.
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*Wikipedia editors compared to number of speakers of languages*
  Language
Region Speakers Active Wikipedians Score  Sept2006 Jan2008  Finnish Scandinavia
6,100,000 742 871 142.7868  Norweigian Scandinavia 5,000,000 519 712
142.4000  English  309,000,000 43,001 43,000 139.1585  Swedish
Scandinavia 9,000,000
761 1,107 123.0000  Estonian Eastern Europe 1,080,000 73 113 104.6296  Dutch
Western Europe 20,000,000 1,497 1,831 91.5500  Danish Scandinavia 5,300,000 251
451 85.0943  French  64,800,000 3,608 5,019 77.4537  German Germany 95,400,000
7,238 7,258 76.0796  Hebrew  9,420,000 572 646 68.5774  Catalan Western
Europe 6,600,000 187 419 63.4848  Hungarian Eastern Europe 14,000,000 283 769
54.9285  Czech Eastern Europe 12,000,000 348 612 51.0000  Italian Western
Europe 61,500,000 1,862 3,097 50.3577  Polish Eastern Europe 42,700,000 1,502
2,059 48.2201  Lithuanian Eastern Europe 4,000,000 112 190 47.5  Japanese Japan
122,000,000 3,632 5,089 41.7131  Bulgarian Eastern Europe 9,000,000 170 315 35
 Slovak Eastern Europe 5,600,000 137 183 32.6785  Russian Russia 145,000,000
1,008 2,185 15.0689  Romanian Eastern Europe 26,300,000 170 390 14.8288  Greek
Europe 15,000,000 176 209 13.9333  Spanish  322,000,000 2,280 4,349
13.5062  Turkish
Middle East 50,600,000 358 666 13.1620  Croatian Eastern Europe 21,100,000 130
199 9.4312  Indonesian Indonesia 23,100,000 140 198 8.5714  Portuguese
 230,000,000
1,267 1,786 7.7652  Ukranian Eastern Europe 39,400,000 100 275 6.9796  Persian
Iran 39,400,000 126 256 6.4974  Korean Korea 67,000,000 131 340 5.0746
 Vietnamese
South Asia 67,400,000 113 215 3.1899  Mandarin Chinese 873,000,000 1,050 1,726
1.9770  Arabic Middle East 206,000,000 147 399 1.9368  Cantonese
Chinese 54,800,000
19 41 0.7481  Tamil Sri Lanka, India 66,000,000 32 43 0.6515  Telugu
India 69,700,000
37 41 0.5882  Urdu Pakistan 60,500,000 14 33 0.5454  Marathi India 68,000,000
25 33 0.4852  Min Chinese 46,200,000 12 17 0.3679  Gujarati India 46,100,000
2 14 0.3036  Bengali South Asia 171,000,000 37 49 0.2865  Hindi India
181,000,000
25 46 0.2541  Javanese Indonesia 75,500,000 7 18 0.2384  Punjabi India
57,000,000
4 8 0.1403  Wu Chinese 77,200,000 6 10 0.1295

-Aude