I've noted Finland (as a country) before when looking at Erik's data - IIRC, there's a vaguely normal-looking distribution of pages-per-internet-user-per-month for the Western European countries, and Finland is at the upper end but not a dramatic outlier, it's in a group with eg Sweden, Austria, etc.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryOv...
This pattern has been around since at least 2012:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120922063053/http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimed...
(not sure why the 2012 per-country numbers are so much higher...)
Andrew.
On 16 March 2015 at 09:30, 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)
The only caution I'd raise is that these numbers don't include spider filtering. Why is this important? Well, a lot of traffic is driven by crawlers and spiders and automata, particularly on smaller projects, and it can lead to weirdness as a result. With the granular pagecount files there's some work that can be done to detect this (for example, using burst detection and a few heuristics around concentration measures to eliminate pages that are clearly driven by automated traffic - see the recent analytics mailing list thread) but only some. I appreciate this is a flaw in the data we are releasing, not in your work, which is an excellent read and highly interesting :). I agree that understanding the lack of development in the PRC and ROK is crucial - we keep talking about the "next billion readers" but only talking :(
On 16 March 2015 at 02:21, h hanteng@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I have some findings to show the page views per Internet usermeasurement may help comparing different language editions of Wikipedia. Criticism and suggestions are welcome.
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2015/03/15/comparing-language-development...
Which language version of Wikipedia enjoys the most page views per language Internet user than expected? It is Finnish. In terms of absolute positive and negative gap, English has the widest positive gap whereas Chinese has the largest negative gap.
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In particular, it is known that Wikipedia (and Google which often favours Wikipedia) faces local competition in the People's Republic of China and South Korea. Therefore it is understandable the page views may be lower in Chinese and Korean Wikipedia language projects simply because some users' need to read user-generated encyclopedias are satisfied by other websites. However, it remains an important question to examine why these particular Latin and Asian languages are under-developed for Wikipedia projects.
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