[Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

Marcus Buck me at marcusbuck.org
Thu Jan 14 14:51:05 UTC 2010


Nikola Smolenski hett schreven:
> In Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown I also notice something 
> that should affect chapter relations: there are some Wikipedias which 
> are read from foreign countries more than from the country of origin 
> (probably b/c readers from diaspora is richer and has better Internet 
> access).
>
> For example, Macedonian Wikipedia is read more from Slovenia or Germany 
> than from Macedonia:
>
> Macedonian (mk) (0.02% share of global total)
> Slovenia	30.6%
> Germany	23.7%
> Macedonia	23.3%
>
> It would therefore make sense for WMDE to try to reach Macedonians 
> living in Germany, and for future WMMK to help them in doing so.

It would make sense. But at the moment  WMDE is not even actively doing 
anything for the _native_ languages of Germany except for German. I 
think that would be the first step to do.

Marcus Buck



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