I have made a list comparing the number of Wikipedians (according to the stats) with the number of speakers per language. German has most according to this statistic: 22 Wikipedians per million speakers. For number of speakers, I have used the data from http://www.nicemice.net/amc/tmp/lang-pop.var, using data from Wikipedia for those languages not available. For number of Wikipedians, I used the statistics page (which counts everyone who at one time or other edited 5 or more articles). Here is the list. After the language code, the number of Wikipedians per million speakers, the number of Wikipedians and the number of speakers in millions is given.

Numbers between brackets: counting only first-language speakers *: number of speakers from Wikipedia @: number of speakers not available on Wikipedia; from elsewhere =: given as several separate languages by the source, one on Wikipedia !: given as one language by the source, several on Wikipedia *s: the number on Wikipedia would, if valid, have led the language to be on the top-100 list. Reduced from 8 to 6 million.

de: 22.1 (27.3) 2680 121 he: 21.5 110 5.1 da: 20.0 100 5 sv: 18.5 167 9 nl: 18.2 383 21 gd: 16.6* 1 0.06 cy: 15.0* 9 0.6 et: 12.7 14 1.1 fy: 12.3 9 0.7 en: 12.1 (17.7) 5717 470 no: 11.6 58 5 fi: 8.3 50 6 gl: 7.7@ 24 3.1 ca: 7.6* 38 5 pl: 7.4 327 44 fr: 5.3 (9.2) 666 124 ja: 3.7 472 125 sl: 3.1 7 2.2 af: 2.3 15 6.4 it: 1.8 (2.9) 119 63 cs: 1.8 22 12 hu: 1.6 25 15 hr/bs/sr: 1.5! <=33 21 bg: 1.3 12 9 nah: 1.3* 2 1.5 el: 1.0 12 12 lt: 1.0 4 4 ro: 0.9 25 26 es: 0.7 (1.0) 281 362 ms: 0.6 11 18 sq: 0.6*s 4 6 pt: 0.2 (0.2) 49 182 fa: 0.2 6 27 ka: 0.2 1 3.9 ru: 0.1 (0.2) 39 288 zh: 0.1= 1064 194 ar: 0.1= 16 135 tr: 0.1 10 59 vi: 0.1 7 67 sk: 0.1* 1 5.6 als: 0.1@ 1 6 id: 0.0 (0.5) 9 140 sw: 0.0 (0.4) 2 30 hi: 0.0 (0.0) 5 418 ta: 0.0 (0.0) 4 69 ml: 0.0 3 34 ur: 0.0 1 57

Andre Engels