[Foundation-l] Wikipedias by page views

Mon Mar 31 19:16:24 UTC 2008

The graf of data at the bottom was sort of unreadable for me, but
it doesn't seem unreasonable to guess that while there are of
course many hundreds of millions more native Mandarin speakers
than English... many of these native speakers do not have regular
Internet access. The issue of development level and Internet freedom
impact South America, the Middle East and China among other areas
(to address the mentions of Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin languages).
In order to see if there is a true disparity of some sort, you'd need to
compare Wikipedians in each project as a portion of the native speakers
with free Internet access, not just a portion of the native speakers.

Nathan