On 24 October 2011 18:08, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Good question, to which I do not presently have the answer. It was used in the CEO advertisement too, but I don't have records that stretch back far enough to cover the process of choosing that number. Perhaps a member of the board can help... I think it might be an extrapolation from the number of views from the UK. I'll look into getting the number updated once there's a quiet moment.
Yeah. The last per-country stats I recall were Greg Maxwell's from 2007. (Though there may have been some since then.)
"How many people write Wikipedia?" is a question that can only be answered with a qualification as to activity level and so forth ...
- d.