From the top of my head, about 23 Million people from Germany use the
Wikimedia sites every months, so a little more than 1/4 of all Germans.
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2012/3/5 Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia-inc.com:
This is a fascinating area and I agree with Theo that making meaningful comparisons is difficult.
Here is an interesting way to look at a comparison between Germany and India. As I understand it, the top 80 million people in India have about the same amount of income/wealth as the Germans (of whom there are about 80 million). It's just that in India there more than a billion more people beyond that who live on a lot less.
While such comparisons are interesting and might be useful in terms of at least some internal motivations, I think there's an emotional risk, since issues around money can be so emotional.
Still, if we're going to do them, because they are fun and interesting, one other factor to include would be per capita readership. I suspect that most of the difference between Germany and the US in terms of donation levels can be explained by the higher per capita readership of Wikipedia in German.
--Jimbo
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