On 8/17/06, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
I am not sure I understand you correctly, but I seem to read that you are hinting at the fact that the English Wikipedia is predominantely US contributors. If that is the case, and although I am not a contributor there myself, I believe this is forgetting the diversity of our biggest project. My take is there are enough international contributors who contribute to the English Wikipedia to never fall into a US/rest of the world kind of split, which at any rate, would seem to be an ultimate failure of Wikimedia ever pretending to any kind of international scope.
For the record:
Contributors to enwiki: 53% US 15% GB 7% CA 4% AU 2% DE 1% NL, FR, SE, IE, NZ, JP 11% everywhere else.
This is based on geolocated IP addresses from a few months back. Note that these are based on number of EDITS, not on number of EDITORS (which is harder to evaluate). A slim majority of edits to enwiki come from the US.
I hope to talk Greg into running the same numbers for some of the other larger projects.
Kelly