[Foundation-l] New projects opened

[Mark Williamson]

Gregory, I would love to see current data of that type. I - and
probably many others - would be extremely grateful if you were to
publish it.

Mark


On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Lars Aronsson<lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>> Kaare Olsen wrote:
>>
>>> What I think is the primary reason for the Danish Wikipedia
>>> being much smaller than the "neighbouring" languages is that
>>> Danes generally are internationally minded and pride themselves
>>> on being good at English - people may simply prefer to use/edit
>>> Wikipedia in that language (even I did that when first attracted
>>> to Wikipedia).
>>
>> I find it hard to believe that this would be a major difference
>> between Denmark and Sweden. But it would be really interesting if
>> we could somehow trace the use of the English Wikipedia to users
>> of various mother tongues (for Northern Europe, country or IP
>> address range might be a good enough approximation for mother
>> tongue).  Perhaps Swedish users stay on the Swedish Wikipedia to
>> read about sports, but go to the English to read about music.
>>
>> For each IP address range, we could (well, Domas could) analyze
>> which language of Wikipedia those users primarily go to.  If users
>> from 130.236.xxx.yyy mostly visit the English and Swedish
>> Wikipedia, we can assume that it constitutes a Swedish-speaking
>> community.  If no conclusive pattern is shown on the /16 (class B)
>> range, each /24 (class C) net can be analyzed individually.
>
> I published a very simple GEO vs Project readership report a couple of
> years back. I could dig up the data, but it's old now.  It's not
> terribly hard to run, and the old script should still work.
>
>
> It was generally the case that for much of the world English Wikipedia
> was accessed Wikipedia by readers with roughly comparable frequency to
> the 'expected' language, and in some cases far more so… though there
> were some significant exceptions: For example the Italians stuck to
> itwiki and the Japanese stuck to jawiki.  Much of Europe was more
> mixed.
>
>
> There is also this old data:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edits_by_project_and_country_of_origin
>
>
> How many messages need to be translated to make mediawiki basically
> usable?  My own belief was that you only needed a few dozens to make
> the software basically usable, at least enough to bootstrap usage.
>
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