On 24 October 2011 18:08, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds(a)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.