If the hypothesis on the climate's impact on literacy and thus Wikipedia viewing holds true, then perhaps Manchuria (or Northeast China) and/or Russia, should be the target for Wikipedia viewing.
The love for knowledge/information could be strong in East Asian/Confucius countries where both literacy rates and ICT development index have been high.
By using some comparative methods from comparative politics and social sciences, we may be able to tell a bigger stories about online literacy and the role of Wikipedia in it.
Best, han-teng liao
2015-03-16 22:02 GMT+01:00 Kerry Raymond kerry.raymond@gmail.com:
And very long winter nights? Are there seasonal variations?
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On 16.3.2015, at 11.30, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Awesome work! It's interesting to see Finnish as the outlier here. Do we have any fi-users on the list who can comment on this and might know what's going on? (And, in the absence of Finns: Jan, heard anything from across the border? :p)
To find a certain societal explanation for this, one good have a look of the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic Wikipedias. If they come high, too, I would explain this with the Nordic people's interest in reading (and high level of general education).
Some earlier studies by UNESCO have demonstrated that the people in Nordic countries read more newspapers, books etc. than people in the rest of the world. If I remember right the Finns has beaten the Nordic countries also in these comparisons. So the explanation can be reading habits in generate, which is a cause of high level of basic education, library network, equal society etc.
- Teemu
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