On 4/30/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Second, the participation rate of languages have been very diversed. English participants represented a huge number of voters. German were second and french third. Other languages had basically not participated but for a very few people. Link : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image%3AElection_participation2.png
I don't agree with the conclusion you draw from this graph. The English and German Wikipedias are much larger than those in other languages, so it's only to be expected there will be more votes coming from those. Taking the number of active editors in April 2004 as my measure, I find that French participation is remarkably large, but English and German is not much more than would be expected from a fair division over the languages. In numbers (top 16 Wikipedia languages; numbers are number of editors, number of voters, and the second as a percentage of the first):
French 321 89 28% Finnish 33 5 15% Norse 27 3 11% Italian 69 7 10% German 1613 145 9% English 2746 238 9% Dutch 191 16 8% Chinese 143 11 7% Esperanto 44 3 7% Polish 124 8 6% Swedish 98 6 6% Danish 67 4 6% Japanese 360 18 5% Spanish 123 6 5% Hebrew 69 3 4% Portuguese 67 0 0%
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