I just found something quite strange when looking for stats on which Wikipedia language versions people are requesting for southern Africa. Looking at

https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryB... I noticed that Russian Wikipedia accounts for (usually) the second or third most requested Wikipedia language version after English (or Portuguese in the case of Mozambique).

In SA, Russian Wikipedia accounts for the second most requested Wikipedia project. This seems to be new and I'm wondering why... is this just because there are now more Russians in SA and other southern African countries?

Anyone have any ideas?

Best, Heather.

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