[Wikimedia-l] Communication plans for community engagement

[Mark]

On 8/7/13 4:22 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Yaroslav M. Blanter, 07/08/2013 13:27:
>> Not commenting on the topic of the thread, is there any data around to
>> show that the English Wikipedia is mainly written by North Americans
>> (aka residents of the US and Canada)? Seems to me that it is likely to
>> be the case but not 100% obvious.
>
> Nathan said a bias, not "mainly written", but yes: 
> <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm>
> 40 % USA, 17 % UK (to be taken with a grain of salt).

If you adjust by population, somewhat interestingly, the U.S. has the 
lowest per-capita editing rate among anglophone countries. But it ends 
up at the top in absolute edits because of the large size of its population.

Here are the per-capita editing ratios compared to the U.S., based on 
the numbers above:

1. UK: 2.1x times as many edits per capita
2. New Zealand: 1.8x
3. Australia: 1.5x
4. Canada: 1.4x
5. USA: 1.0x [baseline]

-Mark