Hey everyone
Just wanted to inform everyone that there are some new statistics available about global Wikipedia usage for Q3 of this year.
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2010/09/wikipedia-page-edits-a-global-perspective...
I just saw some surprising trends if you look at a language and country-wise breakdown of page views and edits.
1.India is No. 15 globally in terms of Wikipedia page views and edits which is expected for having only 7% internet usage, one of the lowest in the first 50 countries on the list.
2. India is still the fifth largest viewer of the English Wikipedia.
3. 94% of Indian Wikimedians view the English Wikipedia, the second largest language group for India after English is Hindi with 0.6% of total views.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerCountryTrend...
4. 70% of edits from India are on the English Wikipedia (this marks a gradual fall in edits from 81% in Q4 2009) followed by 6.6% for Telugu (this quarter also marks a large increase in edits in Telugu and Tamil languages, while Hindi and Malayalam both registered a drop)
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportEditsPerCountryTrends...
The most surprising information is in the language-wise breakdown of edits per country:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerLanguageBrea...
The first Indian language on the list by 0.03% of global share is Hindi, followed by Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi, all at 0.02% of global Usage. the most surprising statistics is that the largest Page views to these languages is not from India but the US sometimes more than several times the number of views from India. Tamil is the only language where this disparity as its lowest.
The number of views from India is highest at 94% to the English Wikipedia but the number of edits has been steadily dropping at a very sharp rate (almost 10% in the last year).
Regards
Salmaan
Thank you, Salmaan. These are fascinating data points and also, provide a road-map, of sorts, to the community.
Best,
Gautam ________ http://social.prathambooks.org/
On 8 September 2010 03:20, theo10011 de10011@gmail.com wrote:
Hey everyone
Just wanted to inform everyone that there are some new statistics available about global Wikipedia usage for Q3 of this year.
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2010/09/wikipedia-page-edits-a-global-perspective...
I just saw some surprising trends if you look at a language and country-wise breakdown of page views and edits.
1.India is No. 15 globally in terms of Wikipedia page views and edits which is expected for having only 7% internet usage, one of the lowest in the first 50 countries on the list.
India is still the fifth largest viewer of the English Wikipedia.
94% of Indian Wikimedians view the English Wikipedia, the second largest
language group for India after English is Hindi with 0.6% of total views.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerCountryTrend...
- 70% of edits from India are on the English Wikipedia (this marks a
gradual fall in edits from 81% in Q4 2009) followed by 6.6% for Telugu (this quarter also marks a large increase in edits in Telugu and Tamil languages, while Hindi and Malayalam both registered a drop)
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportEditsPerCountryTrends...
The most surprising information is in the language-wise breakdown of edits per country:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerLanguageBrea...
The first Indian language on the list by 0.03% of global share is Hindi, followed by Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi, all at 0.02% of global Usage. the most surprising statistics is that the largest Page views to these languages is not from India but the US sometimes more than several times the number of views from India. Tamil is the only language where this disparity as its lowest.
The number of views from India is highest at 94% to the English Wikipedia but the number of edits has been steadily dropping at a very sharp rate (almost 10% in the last year).
Regards
Salmaan
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On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:20 AM, theo10011 de10011@gmail.com wrote:
Hey everyone
Just wanted to inform everyone that there are some new statistics available about global Wikipedia usage for Q3 of this year. --cut-- The most surprising information is in the language-wise breakdown of edits per country:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerLanguageBrea...
The first Indian language on the list by 0.03% of global share is Hindi, followed by Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi, all at 0.02% of global Usage. the most surprising statistics is that the largest Page views to these languages is not from India but the US sometimes more than several times the number of views from India. Tamil is the only language where this disparity as its lowest.
Interesting update. But I have a doubt your conclusion on one point about
language page view statistic, based on my analysis of localized firefox users.http://tech4society.blogspot.com/2010/03/firefox-indic-language-usage-is-not.html
I feel that if a multinational company headquarted in US has a set of IP addresses, it can use those addresses from India as well. Or the proxy might be US IP. In which case the Indian page views can be treated as US page views. If the number of edits from India have gone up in the respective language, the views also would go up, as the views for the edits are not removed from the total views.
Cheers Arjun
I agree to that one..My company's internet gateway for this office is via Honk Kong. So my views and edits may be seen as from Honk Kong !
But still, this is a good data point to start with...
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:44 AM, arjuna rao chavala < arjunaraoc@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:20 AM, theo10011 de10011@gmail.com wrote:
Hey everyone
Just wanted to inform everyone that there are some new statistics available about global Wikipedia usage for Q3 of this year. --cut-- The most surprising information is in the language-wise breakdown of edits per country:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerLanguageBrea...
The first Indian language on the list by 0.03% of global share is Hindi, followed by Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi, all at 0.02% of global Usage. the most surprising statistics is that the largest Page views to these languages is not from India but the US sometimes more than several times the number of views from India. Tamil is the only language where this disparity as its lowest.
Interesting update. But I have a doubt your conclusion on one point about
language page view statistic, based on my analysis of localized firefox users.http://tech4society.blogspot.com/2010/03/firefox-indic-language-usage-is-not.html
I feel that if a multinational company headquarted in US has a set of IP addresses, it can use those addresses from India as well. Or the proxy might be US IP. In which case the Indian page views can be treated as US page views. If the number of edits from India have gone up in the respective language, the views also would go up, as the views for the edits are not removed from the total views.
Cheers Arjun
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I found this link on how IP addresses are mapped to Geo locations from Eric's blog post. http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-locate
Cheers Arjun
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:11 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.comwrote:
I agree to that one..My company's internet gateway for this office is via Honk Kong. So my views and edits may be seen as from Honk Kong !
But still, this is a good data point to start with...
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:44 AM, arjuna rao chavala < arjunaraoc@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:20 AM, theo10011 de10011@gmail.com wrote:
Hey everyone
Just wanted to inform everyone that there are some new statistics available about global Wikipedia usage for Q3 of this year. --cut-- The most surprising information is in the language-wise breakdown of edits per country:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerLanguageBrea...
The first Indian language on the list by 0.03% of global share is Hindi, followed by Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi, all at 0.02% of global Usage. the most surprising statistics is that the largest Page views to these languages is not from India but the US sometimes more than several times the number of views from India. Tamil is the only language where this disparity as its lowest.
Interesting update. But I have a doubt your conclusion on one point
about language page view statistic, based on my analysis of localized firefox users.http://tech4society.blogspot.com/2010/03/firefox-indic-language-usage-is-not.html
I feel that if a multinational company headquarted in US has a set of IP addresses, it can use those addresses from India as well. Or the proxy might be US IP. In which case the Indian page views can be treated as US page views. If the number of edits from India have gone up in the respective language, the views also would go up, as the views for the edits are not removed from the total views.
Cheers Arjun
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