The topic of audiences was discussed at today's WMF Metrics and
Activities meeting.
Looking at
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm, and sorting by
editors (5+ per million speakers), there are some language communities
that appear to have high participation rates on their language's
edition of Wikipedia, but I hear very little from them in meta
discussions. Japanese Wikipedia comes to mind in particular, with its
large number of primary + secondary language speakers. I'd be
interested in learning more about what makes their community's edition
of Wikipedia so successful in terms of a high proportion of Japanese
speakers contributing to the site, that could be applied to other
language editions.
Could WMF direct more resources to studying the successes on Japanese
Wikipedia, and how information about those successes could be applied
to other language editions of Wikipedia?
Pine