[Foundation-l] Wikipedias by page views

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:07 PM, remy.le.guen <remy.le.guen at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell a écrit :
>
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >> 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:
>  >>
>  >
>  > One thing to keep in mind is that languages imply countries far less
>  > than people assume.  There are quite a few languages where US
>  > readership is comparable to or larger than the obvious countries for
>  > that language.
>  >
>  > Some old breakdown data:
>  >
>  > http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org/wikipedia-viewer-matrix.html
>  >
>  > The graph is log scale because otherwise you can pretty much only see
>  > the largest project and country.
>  >
>  I agree, butif english language is the first wikipedia because they are
>  more native english speakers than in greek (for exemple). For exemple, I
>  think if China people can have computers the zh wikipedia would be the
>  most visited wiki.
>  Vivelefrat
>
>
Not only that, but also many non-native speakers use the English
Wikipedia. I know that here in certain areas the use of the English
Wikipedia is equal or larger than that of the Dutch one.

Bryan