Awesome work! It's interesting to see Finnish as the outlier here. Do we have any fi-users on the list who can comment on this and might know what's going on? (And, in the absence of Finns: Jan, heard anything from across the border? :p) The only caution I'd raise is that these numbers don't include spider filtering. Why is this important? Well, a lot of traffic is driven by crawlers and spiders and automata, particularly on smaller projects, and it can lead to weirdness as a result. With the granular pagecount files there's some work that can be done to detect this (for example, using burst detection and a few heuristics around concentration measures to eliminate pages that are clearly driven by automated traffic - see the recent analytics mailing list thread) but only some. I appreciate this is a flaw in the data we are releasing, not in your work, which is an excellent read and highly interesting :). I agree that understanding the lack of development in the PRC and ROK is crucial - we keep talking about the "next billion readers" but only talking :( On 16 March 2015 at 02:21, h &lt;hanteng(a)gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2015/03/15/comparing-language-developmen… language in websites. -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

To find a certain societal explanation for this, one good have a look of the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic Wikipedias. If they come high, too, I would explain this with the Nordic people’s interest in reading (and high level of general education). Some earlier studies by UNESCO have demonstrated that the people in Nordic countries read more newspapers, books etc. than people in the rest of the world. If I remember right the Finns has beaten the Nordic countries also in these comparisons. So the explanation can be reading habits in generate, which is a cause of high level of basic education, library network, equal society etc. - Teemu -------------------------------------------------- Teemu Leinonen http://teemuleinonen.fi +358 50 351 6796 Media Lab http://mlab.uiah.fi Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture -------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

And very long winter nights? Are there seasonal variations? -----Original Message----- From: wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Leinonen Teemu Sent: Tuesday, 17 March 2015 4:32 AM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] (no subject) To find a certain societal explanation for this, one good have a look of the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic Wikipedias. If they come high, too, I would explain this with the Nordic people's interest in reading (and high level of general education). Some earlier studies by UNESCO have demonstrated that the people in Nordic countries read more newspapers, books etc. than people in the rest of the world. If I remember right the Finns has beaten the Nordic countries also in these comparisons. So the explanation can be reading habits in generate, which is a cause of high level of basic education, library network, equal society etc. - Teemu -------------------------------------------------- Teemu Leinonen http://teemuleinonen.fi +358 50 351 6796 Media Lab http://mlab.uiah.fi Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture -------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l