[Foundation-l] Wikipedias by page views

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 18:44:16 UTC 2008


Very interesting that even with censorship from the mainland, Zh.wp is  
in the top 20. Imagine where it would be if that censorship was gone.
-Dan
On Mar 31, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:

> Thank you for the very interesting list. It is another useful list to
> compare Wikipedias, for my little study about Wikipedias in "weak"
> languages.
> Did you think about putting it on e.g. Meta Wiki?
> Ziko
>
>
> 2008/3/31, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Inspired by the Wikimania thread, I decided to work out  
>> approximately how
>> much traffic each language of Wikipedia gets.  I totaled the top  
>> 1000 page
>> views for February at http://stats.grok.se/ for each of the Wikipedia
>> communities and arrived at the following list:
>>
>>   Language          Page views          % of Total
>>
>> 1  English             929238291           50.32%
>> 2  German              188053798           10.18%
>> 3  Japanese            174055663           9.43%
>> 4  Spanish             112874582           6.11%
>> 5  French              76874066            4.16%
>> 6  Italian             58002665            3.14%
>> 7  Polish              54562647            2.95%
>> 8  Portuguese          38395679            2.08%
>> 9  Russian             26100952            1.41%
>> 10 Dutch               25549308            1.38%
>> 11 Turkish             19850823            1.08%
>> 12 Swedish             15511077            0.84%
>> 13 Finnish             13913585            0.75%
>> 14 Norwegian           8896989             0.48%
>> 15 Chinese             8863799             0.48%
>> 16 Hebrew              8567314             0.46%
>> 17 Czech               7820169             0.42%
>> 18 Arabic              6692037             0.36%
>> 19 Indonesian          5794989             0.31%
>> 20 Hungarian           5619172             0.30%
>> 21 th                  5072842             0.27%
>> 22 da                  4398916             0.24%
>> 23 ro                  4133216             0.22%
>> 24 ko                  3396611             0.18%
>> 25 bg                  3173471             0.17%
>> 26 vi                  3032979             0.16%
>> 27 fa                  2690333             0.15%
>> 28 ca                  2453214             0.13%
>> 29 lt                  2410434             0.13%
>> 30 hr                  2391348             0.13%
>> 31 el                  2286062             0.12%
>> 32 ms                  2119487             0.11%
>> 33 sk                  1873386             0.10%
>> 34 sl                  1753346             0.09%
>> 35 simple              1614145             0.09%
>> 36 et                  1423607             0.08%
>> 37 sr                  1199822             0.06%
>> 38 uk                  1110578             0.06%
>> 39 tl                  1069871             0.06%
>> 40 gl                  923308              0.05%
>> 41 lv                  876243              0.05%
>> 42 bs                  828707              0.04%
>> 43 eo                  731760              0.04%
>> 44 sq                  648370              0.04%
>> 45 eu                  593362              0.03%
>> 46 mk                  572943              0.03%
>> 47 ka                  547997              0.03%
>> 48 nn                  539562              0.03%
>> 49 te                  475333              0.03%
>> 50 la                  447362              0.02%
>> 51 is                  411988              0.02%
>> 52 sh                  393023              0.02%
>> 53 hi                  382151              0.02%
>> 54 ta                  334968              0.02%
>> 55 lb                  316817              0.02%
>> 56 ast                 306507              0.02%
>> 57 az                  305324              0.02%
>> 58 ku                  297680              0.02%
>> 59 cy                  294459              0.02%
>> 60 nds                 283217              0.02%
>> 61 br                  282351              0.02%
>> 62 bn                  268771              0.01%
>> 63 scn                 255165              0.01%
>> 64 io                  240010              0.01%
>> 65 mr                  237498              0.01%
>> 66 oc                  229580              0.01%
>> 67 bpy                 216187              0.01%
>> 68 su                  215629              0.01%
>> 69 jv                  214303              0.01%
>> 70 ceb                 191102              0.01%
>> 71 vo                  184129              0.01%
>> 72 nap                 175261              0.01%
>> 73 ht                  168348              0.01%
>> 74 pms                 138040              0.01%
>> 75 new                 117181              0.01%
>>
>> Assumming that the number of page views for the top 1000 pages is
>> representative of the total count for all pages, it appears that  
>> English
>> accounts for just over half all Wikipedia traffic at present.  It  
>> also
>> suggests that EN Wikipedia probably gets over 1 billion page views  
>> per
>> month.  ;-).  It would be interesting to see pageviews per article if
>> anyone
>> wants to add in the article counts for each community.
>>
>>
>> -Robert Rohde
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