[Foundation-l] Promoting non-en Wikipedias (was In defence of Google)

Mon Jan 22 16:29:23 UTC 2007

André,
thanks for the list of all languages.
IMHO the spread of wikipedia in small languages would be better, if all these languages appear in the left menue-bar of the wikipedia for each article. Then users see, if an article is already existent in their or other language and they can translate one from another language,. so the bi-languists can help to get the number of articles bigger, and then other users in the original language can complete or expand the article.
If the article exists, then search engine swill attract more users. To read an edit again.
So please ask the technicians, to add these languages to the side menue bar and as well a the html code under each language, that the article in all languages exist, event there, where the article page is empty or does not exist, then we can translate each article.

So these languages you mention above 20 Mio users should be default on each wikipedia article in each countryor language.

thanks.

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Datum: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:04:24 +0100
Von: "Andre Engels" <andreengels at gmail.com>
An: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Betreff: Re: [Foundation-l] Promoting non-en Wikipedias (was In defence of	Google)

> 2007/1/22, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
> 
> > Users from Greece could visit Estonia to meet some wikipedians
> > there and see how they are dealing with the problems of being a
> > small nation.
> 
> 
> To get a comparison, here are for a large number of languages the number
> of
> native speakers (in millions, according to [[en:List of languages by
> number
> of native speakers]] where possible, from the en: page on the language
> otherwise) and the number of contributors in November 2006, according to
> the
> wikistats. Included are languages with either 20 million or more speakers,
> or 20 or more contributors. Ordering is by "contributors per million
> native
> speakers. Not included are Latin, Nynorsk and Simple English, and for
> Esperanto and Indonesian total speakers instead of first language speakers
> have been used. For each language there is millions of speakers - number
> of
> contributors - contributors per million speakers. The Scandinavian
> languages
> seem to be the ones that attract the most people to Wikipedia, with
> Finnish
> on top with about one in every 6000 Fins apparently being a Wikipedia
> contributor (Asturian scores even higher, but the language is so small
> that
> it must be considered a statistical anomaly). Least Wikipedia
> contributorship is present in languages of India, with Punjabi (100
> million
> speakers, no Wikipedians) at the bottom.
> 
> ast: Asturian 0.1 - 20 - 200
> fi: Finnish 5.4 - 936 - 173.3
> no: Norse 4.7 - 639 - 136.0 (speakers includes nn: Nynorsk as well)
> is: Icelandic 0.3 - 40 - 133.3
> en: English 354 - 44000 - 124.3 (number of contributors estimated)
> eo: Esperanto 1.05 - 118 - 112.4 (second language speakers)
> lb: Luxembourgish 0.3 - 31 - 103.3
> sv: Swedish 9 - 924 - 102.7
> he: Hebrew 7 - 601 - 85.9
> et: Estonian 1.08 - 92 - 85.2
> de: German 101 - 7549 - 74.7
> nl: Dutch 25 - 1652 - 66.1
> eu: Basque 0.7 - 45 - 64.3
> fr: French 67 - 3948 - 58.9
> sl: Slovenian 2.0 - 114 - 57.0
> ga: Irish 0.38 - 21 - 55.3
> da: Danish 5.6 - 276 - 49.3
> br: Breton 0.85 - 38 - 44.7
> cy: Welsh 0.75 - 28 - 37.3
> lt: Lithuanian 3.1 - 113 - 36.5
> cs: Czech 12 - 433 - 36.1
> pl: Polish 46 - 1597 - 34.7
> it: Italian 61 - 2017 - 33.1
> ja: Japanese 128 - 3842 - 29.9
> sk: Slovak 5.0 - 148 - 29.6
> ca: Catalan 6.7 - 195 - 29.1
> mk: Macedonian 1.6 - 44 - 27.5
> lv: Latvian 1.5 - 38 - 25.3
> hu: Hungarian 14 - 354 - 25.3
> bg: Bulgarian 7.6 - 188 - 24.7
> gl: Galician 3.2 - 68 - 21.3
> sh: Serbocratian 17 - 150 - 18.6 (number of contributors gathered by
> adding
> up sr:, hr: and bs:)
> el: Greek 12 - 132 - 11.0
> oc: Occitan 1.94 - 21 - 10.8
> ru: Russian 145 - 1164 - 8.0
> ro: Romanian 24 - 192 - 8.0
> es: Spanish 350 - 2600 - 7.4
> yi: Yiddish 3.2 - 23 - 7.2
> tr: Turkish 60 - 420 - 7.0
> ka: Georgian 4.2 - 26 - 6.2
> th: Thai 31 - 142 - 4.6
> pt: Portuguese 203 - 1323 - 4.4
> af: Afrikaans 6.0 - 25 - 4.2
> sq: Albanian 6.0 - 24 - 4.0
> uk: Ukrainian 39 - 131 - 3.4
> be: Belorussian 9.1 - 30 - 3.3
> ms: Malay 18 - 58 - 3.2
> als: Alemannic 10 - 29 - 2.9
> zh: Chinese 700 - 1527 - 2.2
> ko: Korean 71 - 150 - 2.1
> fa: Farsi 75 - 139 - 1.85
> vi: Vietnamese 70 - 116 - 1.66
> tl: Tagalog 22 - 24 - 1.09
> id: Indonesian 200 - 151 - 0.76 (second language speakers)
> ar: Arabic 270 - 177 - 0.66
> ml: Malayalam 37 - 24 - 0.65
> az: Azeri 30 - 18 - 0.60
> ta: Tamil 62 - 34 - 0.55
> te: Telugu 76 - 39 - 0.51
> uz: Uzbek 20 - 10 - 0.50
> su: Sundanese 27 - 12 - 0.44
> mr: Maratha 68 - 28 - 0.41
> zh-yue: Kantonese 71 - 29 - 0.41
> kn: Kannada 55 - 20 - 0.36
> ur: Urdu 61 - 16 - 0.26
> ps: Pashto 24 - 4 - 0.17
> bn: Bengali 196 - 29 - 0.15
> sd: Sindhi 20 - 2 - 0.10
> jv: Javanese 75 - 7 - 0.09
> hi: Hindi 337 - 26 - 0.08
> or: Oriya 24 - 1 - 0.04
> am: Amharic 27 - 1 - 0.04
> gu: Gujarati 46 - 1 - 0.02
> ha: Hausa 24 - 0 - 0
> om: Omoro 32 - 0 - 0
> my: Burmese 32 - 0 - 0
> pa: Punjabi 104 - 0 - 0
> 
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