Hi,
I wanted to make a follow-up comment after Bahar pointed out that in
fact Turkey is not in the Middle East. While he is absolutely right in
pointing out that Turkey is a part of Europe, unfortunately, due to the
way Wikimedia is forced to track unique users for the purpose of
consistent analysis it makes sense for us to place turkey with Middle
Eastern and North African languages. Wikipedia is reliant on ComScore,
an Internet tracking company with a global survey (see link:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stu/comScore_data_on_Wikimedia) to
provide us with information about the number of unique users of
Wikipedia sites because unfortunately, we do not have the ability to
track that data ourselves. ComScore places Turkey as part of their
Middle East and Africa region. Since they do not break the information
down by country for us we are forced to stick to their regional
classification in order to produce consistent analysis. Sorry that this
is causing Turkey to be incorrectly geographically classified, but
please don't let it keep you from participating in the strategic
planning process. Additionally, I will add a note to the Turkish
language to explain the reason for its misclassification.
Best,
Sarah
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