And very long winter nights? Are there seasonal variations?
-----Original Message----- From: wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Leinonen Teemu Sent: Tuesday, 17 March 2015 4:32 AM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] (no subject)
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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