Hello,

I work for a consulting firm called Strategy&. We have been engaged by Facebook on behalf of Internet.org to conduct a study on assessing the state of connectivity globally. One key area of focus is the availability of relevant online content. We are using a the availability of encyclopedic knowledge in one’s primary language as a proxy for relevant content. We define this as 100K+ Wikipedia articles in one’s primary language. We have a few questions related to this analysis prior to publishing it:

· We are currently using the article count by language based on Wikimedia’s foundation public link: Source: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias. Is this a reliable source for article count – does it include stubs?

· Is it possible to get historic data for article count. It would be great to monitor the evolution of the metric we have defined over time?

· What are the biggest drivers you’ve seen for step change in the number of articles (e.g., number of active admins, machine translation, etc.)

· We had to map Wikipedia language codes to ISO 639-3 language codes in Ethnologue (source we are using for primary language data). The 2 language code for a wikipedia language in the “List of Wikipedias” sometimes matches but not always the ISO 639-1 code. Is there an easy way to do the mapping?

Many Thanks,

Rawia

Formerly Booz & Company

Rawia Abdel Samad

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Email: Rawia.AbdelSamad@strategyand.pwc.com