[Foundation-l] Wikipedias by page views

[Ziko van Dijk]

Your table did not come to me as a table, it is quite difficult to read... I
could imagine that colleciting such statistics on a suitable Meta place
would be a good idea, inspiring Wiki-ologists.

In that list article of Wikipedia, I would not say e.g. that German has 60
millions speakers of German as a "second language". A sociolinguist would
say "foreign language". In general, considerations about Wikipedias and
languages need some sociolinguist/interlinguist theoretical framework...

Ziko

2008/3/31, Aude <audevivere at gmail.com>:
>
> I had put together this table, using "active wikipedians" from
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm - though, the enwiki numbers are
> outdated, it's still a useful comparison and hopefully we will get updated
> stats with the recent enwiki dump.
> **
> Anyway, here is the table, which is active wikipedians in relation to the
> number of speakers of the language.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_by_speakers (still need to re-run
> with these numbers)
>
> So, while Arabic is one of the top five most widely spoken languages, it
> is
> well down on this list in terms of participation on the arwiki.    Spanish
> is also further down on the list, than it should be.  Chinese languages
> are
> down on the list, similar to the arwiki.  And notice the various languages
> of India.
> **
> *Wikipedia editors compared to number of speakers of languages*
>   Language
> Region Speakers Active Wikipedians Score  Sept2006 Jan2008  Finnish
> Scandinavia
> 6,100,000 742 871 142.7868  Norweigian Scandinavia 5,000,000 519 712
> 142.4000  English  309,000,000 43,001 43,000 139.1585  Swedish
> Scandinavia 9,000,000
> 761 1,107 123.0000  Estonian Eastern Europe 1,080,000 73 113 104.6296
>   Dutch
> Western Europe 20,000,000 1,497 1,831 91.5500  Danish Scandinavia
> 5,300,000 251
> 451 85.0943  French  64,800,000 3,608 5,019 77.4537  German Germany
> 95,400,000
> 7,238 7,258 76.0796  Hebrew  9,420,000 572 646 68.5774  Catalan Western
> Europe 6,600,000 187 419 63.4848  Hungarian Eastern Europe 14,000,000 283
> 769
> 54.9285  Czech Eastern Europe 12,000,000 348 612 51.0000  Italian Western
> Europe 61,500,000 1,862 3,097 50.3577  Polish Eastern Europe 42,700,000
> 1,502
> 2,059 48.2201  Lithuanian Eastern Europe 4,000,000 112 190 47.5  Japanese
> Japan
> 122,000,000 3,632 5,089 41.7131  Bulgarian Eastern Europe 9,000,000 170
> 315 35
>   Slovak Eastern Europe 5,600,000 137 183 32.6785  Russian Russia
> 145,000,000
> 1,008 2,185 15.0689  Romanian Eastern Europe 26,300,000 170 390 14.8288
>   Greek
> Europe 15,000,000 176 209 13.9333  Spanish  322,000,000 2,280 4,349
> 13.5062  Turkish
> Middle East 50,600,000 358 666 13.1620  Croatian Eastern Europe 21,100,000
> 130
> 199 9.4312  Indonesian Indonesia 23,100,000 140 198 8.5714  Portuguese
>   230,000,000
> 1,267 1,786 7.7652  Ukranian Eastern Europe 39,400,000 100 275 6.9796
>   Persian
> Iran 39,400,000 126 256 6.4974  Korean Korea 67,000,000 131 340 5.0746
>   Vietnamese
> South Asia 67,400,000 113 215 3.1899  Mandarin Chinese 873,000,000 1,050
> 1,726
> 1.9770  Arabic Middle East 206,000,000 147 399 1.9368  Cantonese
> Chinese 54,800,000
> 19 41 0.7481  Tamil Sri Lanka, India 66,000,000 32 43 0.6515  Telugu
> India 69,700,000
> 37 41 0.5882  Urdu Pakistan 60,500,000 14 33 0.5454  Marathi India
> 68,000,000
> 25 33 0.4852  Min Chinese 46,200,000 12 17 0.3679  Gujarati India
> 46,100,000
> 2 14 0.3036  Bengali South Asia 171,000,000 37 49 0.2865  Hindi India
> 181,000,000
> 25 46 0.2541  Javanese Indonesia 75,500,000 7 18 0.2384  Punjabi India
> 57,000,000
> 4 8 0.1403  Wu Chinese 77,200,000 6 10 0.1295
>
>
> -Aude
>
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