[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] Edits by project and country of origin

[David Gerard]

On 04/09/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:

> > or perhaps http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edits_by_project_and_country_of_origin

> 90% of australians edit on the enwiki only :( I'm sure there are many
> more than 10% of AUS wiki users who are fluent in a second language of
> which there is a wiki (frankly you'd be hard pressed to find a
> language spoken by Australians that didn't have a wiki).


According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 12.7% of people in
the 2001 Census speak a language other than English at home. Full
stats:

http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310116.NSF/85255e31005a1918852556c2005508d8/c47ad86d67c1466bca256ce0007e8d6b/$FILE/ATTH23CO/Exstatic%202%202005,%20Australia.xl
(Excel spreadsheet ... I shudder to think what they're using for a CMS
to get URLs like that)


> How regularly
> are the stats updated?


Yes, we need dates on the dataset. I want to refer to this page for
press reasons - en:wp editors by country is something they're
interested in for some reason.


- d.