On 18/08/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
The corrolary to this, incidentally, is that 50% (give or take) of all
actively contributing Wikimedia accounts just now are on en.wp. I know
there'll be overlap, so a more reliable (ha!) method, edit count...
A shade under half of the edits to all Wikimedia projects made in May
(since the figures were handy) are on en.wp. Allowing for some US
participation on other projects, that's ~ 1/4 to 1/3 of all
"involvement" across all Wikimedia projects being from the US. Which
seems a fair enough, if arbitrary, figure.
(It'd be interesting to see the statistics for US involvement on
es.wp, the other major language wikipedia I would expect them to
contribute to, if they're available.)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk