on a slightly related note, I analyzed the cultural preferences for image,
references, links, word count etc. saturation in good and featured articles
on 8 wikis and found significant cultural variation:
http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/cultures%20of%20wikipedias.pdf
best,
dj
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Peter Meyer <econterms(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting topic! Here is a useful analogy
regarding the distribution
of sizes. There has been study of how big cities are within countries or
worldwide, and there are recurring patterns of the scale of the largest to
the second largest, and the second-largest to the third, and so forth.
Without getting into this too deeply you might at least check if the size
relations among Wikipedias are like those of cities, that is, if they have
a similar-looking distribution. If they do, the underlying forces and
dynamics for city sizes might also apply to wikipediae or other sites.
The math is described by Zipf’s law and/or Gibrat’s distribution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law <https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Zipf's_law>, and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibrat%27s_law <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibrat's_law>law>. The work by Xavier Gabaix,
cited there, was my introduction to it.
Like the choice of what city to move to, the relevant Wikipedias for a
user will usually need to be “close” — geographically for a city, or to the
languages the user knows for a Wikipedia. There are other factors driving
a user’s choice, if we think of the user as choosing. If the user wishes
to study an obscure academic subject, they may have to use a large
wikipedia, and that drives them to also participate there. If the user is
focused on a geographically local subject, that drives the choice. A
larger wikipedia is more useful than a small one, therefore the
distribution of wikipedia sizes would be more unequal than the distribution
of personal languages.
It sounds like, based on Poland and Korea, you can show that Internet
availability is not driving all the difference. Good to know. — peter
meyer
On Jul 24, 2018, at 11:30 AM, James Salsman
<jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Why do you think different language
Wikipedia's have different
sizes, outside of the popularity of a given language?
Piotr, if you model organic editing production with a Poisson
distribution, which is reasonable for a first approximation, 3x+
disparities are just natural for the same population sizes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution
I'm not sure the images in that article capture the wide platykurtosis
of large Poisson distributions.
Best regards,
Jim
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