[Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

M. Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Mon May 23 17:50:25 UTC 2011


Clearly, at least at this point, it is probably unreasonable to target
any languages with less than 100,000 native speakers; of course, if
there is community interest I think they should get Wikipedias, but
the 70 million or so human beings who speak languages with less than
100k speakers are likely to be either 1) fluent in a language with
more speakers or 2) live in such isolation that it is unlikely they
would use Wikipedia, at least at this point in time.

2011/5/23 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
> More data. This is about all living languages, just to get a clue about
> what is reasonable to do and what is not.
>
> Number of languages and number of speakers for languages categorized by
> number of speakers (you can get more nice wikitable at [1]):
>
> category: number of languages, total number of speakers
> 100M+: 17, 2514548848
> 10M-99M: 78, 2376900757
> 1M-9M: 303, 950166458
> 100k-999k: 900, 284119716
> 10k-99k: 1837, 61223297
> 1k-9k: 2025, 7823891
> 100-999: 1039, 460911
> 10-99: 343, 12664
> 1-9: 134, 528
> all: 6677, 6195257070
>
> [1]
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias/Languages_and_numbers
>
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