[Wikipedia-l] Largest Wikipedias compared to number of speakers

Wed Mar 31 13:44:38 UTC 2004

I have made a list comparing the number of Wikipedians (according
to the stats) with the number of speakers per language. German has
most according to this statistic: 22 Wikipedians per million
speakers. For number of speakers, I have used the data from
http://www.nicemice.net/amc/tmp/lang-pop.var, using data from
Wikipedia for those languages not available. For number of
Wikipedians, I used the statistics page (which counts everyone
who at one time or other edited 5 or more articles). Here is the
list. After the language code, the number of Wikipedians per
million speakers, the number of Wikipedians and the number of
speakers in millions is given.

Numbers between brackets: counting only first-language speakers
*: number of speakers from Wikipedia
@: number of speakers not available on Wikipedia; from elsewhere
=: given as several separate languages by the source, one on
   Wikipedia
!: given as one language by the source, several on Wikipedia
*s: the number on Wikipedia would, if valid, have led the language
   to be on the top-100 list. Reduced from 8 to 6 million.

de:	22.1 (27.3)	2680	  121
he:	21.5		  110	      5.1
da:	20.0		  100	      5
sv:	18.5		  167	      9
nl:	18.2		  383	    21
gd:	16.6*		      1	      0.06
cy:	15.0*		      9	      0.6
et:	12.7		    14	      1.1
fy:	12.3		      9	      0.7
en:	12.1 (17.7)	5717	  470
no:	11.6		    58	      5
fi:	  8.3		    50	      6
gl:	  7.7@		    24	      3.1
ca:	  7.6*		    38	      5
pl:	  7.4		  327	    44
fr:	  5.3 (9.2)	  666	  124
ja:	  3.7		  472	  125
sl:	  3.1		      7	      2.2
af:	  2.3		    15	      6.4
it:	  1.8 (2.9)	  119	    63
cs:	  1.8		    22	    12
hu:	  1.6		    25	    15
hr/bs/sr:  1.5!		<=33	    21
bg:	  1.3		    12	      9
nah:	  1.3*		      2	      1.5
el:	  1.0		    12	    12
lt:	  1.0		      4	      4
ro:	  0.9		    25	    26
es:	  0.7 (1.0)	  281	  362
ms:	  0.6		    11	    18
sq:	  0.6*s		      4	      6
pt:	  0.2 (0.2)	    49	  182
fa:	  0.2		      6	    27
ka:	  0.2		      1	      3.9
ru:	  0.1 (0.2)	    39	  288
zh:	  0.1=		1064	  194
ar:	  0.1=		    16	  135
tr:	  0.1		    10	    59
vi:	  0.1		      7	    67
sk:	  0.1*		      1	      5.6
als: 	  0.1@		      1	      6
id:	  0.0 (0.5)	      9	  140
sw:	  0.0 (0.4)	      2	    30
hi:	  0.0 (0.0)	      5	  418
ta:	  0.0 (0.0)	      4	    69
ml:	  0.0		      3	    34
ur:	  0.0		      1	    57

Andre Engels
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