[Foundation-l] Edits by project and country of origin

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 19:28:39 UTC 2006


On 9/4/06, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
> What I find especially interesting is not the native Asutralian languages,
> which have a handful of speakers only, but the fact that in India, over 99
> percent of people prefer to edit in English than in their native languages. It
> would be interesting to see the results once native languages are included in
> the sample.

nonononoononon

Read the caveats on the page.

I didn't collect data for the native languages of India.

The data provided suggests that 99% of edits made by people in india
*to the wiki's I collected* were to en.  This is not at all surprising
since I didn't collect the wikis in the native languages.

I didn't bother reporting on smaller language Wikis because greater
care must be taken to avoid revealing personally identifiable
information.. but Kelly's reporting makes that information important
and addresses the privacy issues.

 I will collect this data later.



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