Mark Williamson wrote:
It seems a bit -- forgive me -- daft to use the number of Google hits for non-English WPs... how could that possibly be relevant?
That would be right if the number of Google hits were the only metric. If it is only one of several metrics the resulting meta-analysis will be drawn toward the mean. Another possibility is to assign a normalizing factor to each language to account for the relative frequency of that language.
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