"Peter Gervai" grin@tolna.net schrieb:
As a sidenote: Hungary have a population of 10,000,000 people (with speakers approximated around 15,000,000) and we have around 5 permanent active editors. (Though I expect that raise soon since there going to be some press activity.)
I always wondered what can a wikipedia do supporting a language of, say, 100,000 people. Half an editor?
I haven't checked what's about wikipedias with small speaker base after 3-6 months, what activity they possess. I wonder.
It varies, but then, it also varies for some much larger languages (Marathi with 65 million speakers has only 4 pages, for example). There's four Wikipedia languages with less than 100.000 speakers, none of them getting anywhere serious, however the fifth smallest language (Icelandic, 250.000 speakers) managed to get to a number of 9 Wikipedians (with 10 or more logged-in edits), and is seriously trying to make something.
Wikipedia languages with less than 1 million speakers:
speakers Wikipedians pages Manx 250 0 1 Nauruan 7.000 2 16 Maori 50.000 0 8 Scottish 60.000 1 14 Icelandic 250.000 9 209 Irish 260.000 3 62 Corsican 340.000 0 14 Occitan 350.000 7 493 Welsh 600.000 9 954 Basque 600.000 5 2319 Frisian 700.000 9 881
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