On 8/7/13 4:22 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Yaroslav M. Blanter, 07/08/2013 13:27:
Not commenting on the topic of the thread, is
there any data around to
show that the English Wikipedia is mainly written by North Americans
(aka residents of the US and Canada)? Seems to me that it is likely to
be the case but not 100% obvious.
Nathan said a bias, not "mainly written", but yes:
<http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm>
40 % USA, 17 % UK (to be taken with a grain of salt).
If you adjust by population, somewhat interestingly, the U.S. has the
lowest per-capita editing rate among anglophone countries. But it ends
up at the top in absolute edits because of the large size of its population.
Here are the per-capita editing ratios compared to the U.S., based on
the numbers above:
1. UK: 2.1x times as many edits per capita
2. New Zealand: 1.8x
3. Australia: 1.5x
4. Canada: 1.4x
5. USA: 1.0x [baseline]
-Mark