Hi Isaac,
looking at the report "page views per country" you get numbers which
wikipedia versions were opened per country.
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountry…
and you can choose "detailed version"
Looking at Nigeria and Madagascar you see for October :
(language version - thousand views - percentage of all wikipedia views
in the country)
****Nigeria
English Wp 32945 97.5%
Igbo Wp 386 1.1%
Simple English Wp 112 0.3%
French Wp 97 0.3%
Arabic Wp 62 0.2%
German Wp 56 0.2%
Russian Wp 35 0.1%
Italian Wp 34 0.1%
Other 49 0.2%
****Madagascar
French Wp 2021 83.5%
English Wp 392 16.2%
German Wp 5 0.2%
Other 1 0.1%
So of course SOME people do read Yoruba from Nigeria or Malegache from
Madagascar but this share was less than 0,1% and thus is hidden amongst
"other". Surprisingly Igbo (a pretty small wikipedia) is visible in
Nigeria. Lets see if that repeats. Malagasy was visible in the last
report from August, having 3000 calls and 0,01 % in Madagascar.
Checking the other way round: language views
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguag…
(language version was viewed from which countries)
**** Yoruba (yo) (0.002% share of global total)
France 44.9%
United States 29.8%
Germany 18.8%
Other 6.5%
**** Malagasy (mg) (0.002% share of global total)
France 44.9%
United States 31.0%
Germany 20.0%
Other 4.1%
Also here the "home country" is hidden amongst "others", i.e. less than
1 percent of views of Yoruba coming from Nigeria (but more than 80% of
igbo views! Did they have some PR recently??)
Cheers Ingo - Kipala
> 1. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 134 Concerning
> African language wikipedias (Olatunde Isaac)
> 2. Re: Wiki Loves Africa: Press releases (Geoffrey Kateregga)
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> From: "Olatunde Isaac" <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8,
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> @Kipala, you wrote "Yoruba is not visible in Nigeria wikipedia lookups, all its readers seem to be abroad, same for Malagasy in Madagascar."
>
> How did you arrived on the above conclusion?
>
> Best,
>
> Isaac
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> Amazing analysis by both Ian and Ingo! This is the best I have seen so far
> of trying to find the real gaps in knowledge. Thanks you both.
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> Excuse the brevity, sent from my iPhone.
>
> > On 30 Nov 2016, at 01:09, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you, Ingo. I found myself agreeing with everything you said in
> the blog comment. It is perhaps worth pasting on this mailing list as
> well, as it would reach more people.
> >
> > A.
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> >> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:54 PM Ingo Koll <ikoll(a)gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Hi Ian, you did a great overview!
> >>
> >> I propose also to look at some quality indicators because just article
> >> numbers cannot say if people will read the contributions. There are
> >> content benchmarks like the "1,000/10,000 topics every wikipedia should
> >> have" lists, and some ideas to look up readership.
> >>
> >> I posted my remarks on the blog here
> >> http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1980&cpage=1#comment-373655
> >>
> >> Cheers Ingo
> >>
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> >> Am 29.11.2016 um 16:54 schrieb
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Hi Ian, you did a great overview!
I propose also to look at some quality indicators because just article
numbers cannot say if people will read the contributions. There are
content benchmarks like the "1,000/10,000 topics every wikipedia should
have" lists, and some ideas to look up readership.
I posted my remarks on the blog here
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1980&cpage=1#comment-373655
Cheers Ingo
Am 29.11.2016 um 16:54 schrieb
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> Hi
>
> Here's another African language Wikipedia update:
> http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1980
>
Concerning African language wikipedias: I follow Asaf's advice and post
my text here:
Hi *Ian, thanks for your continuous look at African language wikipedias.*
I agree with you that Afrikaans is indeed the best quality among these.
But *to look at only article numbers can be very misleading *as many
have learned since Waraywaray passed a million articles. According to
the story I remember, this guy from Sweden wanted to honour the language
of his wife from the Philippines – and knew how to write programs that
translate certain types of easily translatable short entries from
English.No idea if that stuff is readable. A huge wikipedia. Is it a
“success”?
For evaluation I propose to go for a *mix of indicators*. Article number
is for very small wikipedias a good indicator.
Beyond say 10,000 we should *also look for some quality indicators.*
An easy one is the ranking in the *1000-article-index*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_sample_of_articles
Here Afrikaans is at 22/100, Swahili at 17/100 and all others down at
7/100 and less.
Similar the *10,000 article list*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_expanded_sample_of_ar…:
Afrikaans at 27%, Swahili at 17%, Malagasy here better at 14%, the rest
down below 10% of reachable points.
*Pageview numbers *are important (who reads the stuff??) but difficult
to compare because of the numbers of speakers vary so much between
languages. I propose to *look for the market share in the “home
country”* (Like Afrikaans/South Africa, Swahiili/Tanzania-Kenya, Amharic
– Ethiopia), using
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReport*PageViewsPerCountr….
These figures are statistically perhaps not sooo strong for some
countries (because of relatively small view numbers over all). It is
also possible to look at the readership of a language by checking
“Pageviews per language”
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReport*PageViewsPerLangua…
showing the countries where requests come from. Many smaller African
language versions have their readers abroad, in USA or Europe (the
homesick African student? Exception; Igbo!).
Interestingly but not surprisingly *no African language wikipedia has
more than 10% share of overall wikipedia views in the “home country” (so
far!).* Top are Somali in Somalia (very small database) and Swahili for
Tanzania with 8-9 %, the large majority reads English wikipedia.
Afrikaans reaches less than 2% in South Africa wikipedia lookups,
Amharic gets 4% in Ethiopia. Yoruba is not visible in Nigeria wikipedia
lookups, all its readers seem to be abroad, same for Malagasy in
Madagascar..
I try to balance that with a check using the *langviews analysis tool
*at https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org
I go for some locations which will probably not be searched a lot from
outside the country. (Not for Cape Town, not for Dar es Salaam, as these
are sought from all over the world. I assume that small places will be
looked up rather by people inside the country). I get a comparison of
language searchs for the entry if it is connected to wikidata. My random
check shows a surprisingly strong position of Swahili in the
interlanguage search compared to English.
*
**Places in Tanzania*
Pos. Lang. Name lookup/day
1 en Mbozi District 6 / day
2 sw Mbozi 3 / day
1 en Mbeya Rural District 3 / day
2 sw Mbeya Vijijini 1 / day
1 en Mpwapwa District 4 / day
2 sw Wilaya ya Mpwapwa 4 / day
1 en Kigoma Region 34 / day
2 sw Mkoa wa Kigoma 28 / day
1 en Sumbawanga 15 / day
4 sw Sumbawanga (mji) 1 / day
1 en Tabora 39 / day
4 sw Tabora (mji) 6 / day
1 en Tabora Region 20 / day
2 sw Mkoa wa Tabora 17 / day
This very tentative comparison puts Swahili in a stronger position even
compared to Afrikaans!
*Places in South Africa*
Pos. Lang. Name lookup/day
1 en Dordrecht, Eastern Cape 11 / day
5 af Dordrecht, Oos-Kaap 1 / day
1 en Noordhoek, Cape Town 26 / day
4 af Noordhoek 0 / day
1 en Melkbosstrand 28 / day
2 af Melkbosstrand 1 / day
1 en Langebaanweg 5 / day
3 af Langebaanweg 0 / day
1 en Velddrif 15 / day
3 af Velddrif 2 / day
Ok, this just as some indicators for ways to look for quality. Because
just quantity should not be the decisive factor when looking where to
invest energy and time.
Cheers
Kipala – Ingo
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> Thank you, Ingo. I found myself agreeing with everything you said in the
> blog comment. It is perhaps worth pasting on this mailing list as well, as
> it would reach more people.
>
> A.
>
FYI,
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