[Foundation-l] Promoting non-en Wikipedias (was In defence of Google)

[teun spaans]

The low representation of Indian citizens surprises me. I met one or two at
the english wikipedia / commons, perhaps they tend to prefer the english
wiki above their local languages?

India, despite having a large population suffering poverty and even hunger
accordint to slashdot today, also has a fairly large programmers community
and other hightec sectors. The low numbers of Hausa volunteers does not
surprise me at all.

Funny: The english, german and french wikis do not seem to have an article
on the omoro language. Yet from this stat I gather they have 32million
native speakers.

teun

On 1/22/07, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2007/1/22, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
>
> > Users from Greece could visit Estonia to meet some wikipedians
> > there and see how they are dealing with the problems of being a
> > small nation.
>
>
> To get a comparison, here are for a large number of languages the number
> of
> native speakers (in millions, according to [[en:List of languages by
> number
> of native speakers]] where possible, from the en: page on the language
> otherwise) and the number of contributors in November 2006, according to
> the
> wikistats. Included are languages with either 20 million or more speakers,
> or 20 or more contributors. Ordering is by "contributors per million
> native
> speakers. Not included are Latin, Nynorsk and Simple English, and for
> Esperanto and Indonesian total speakers instead of first language speakers
> have been used. For each language there is millions of speakers - number
> of
> contributors - contributors per million speakers. The Scandinavian
> languages
> seem to be the ones that attract the most people to Wikipedia, with
> Finnish
> on top with about one in every 6000 Fins apparently being a Wikipedia
> contributor (Asturian scores even higher, but the language is so small
> that
> it must be considered a statistical anomaly). Least Wikipedia
> contributorship is present in languages of India, with Punjabi (100
> million
> speakers, no Wikipedians) at the bottom.
>
> ast: Asturian 0.1 - 20 - 200
> fi: Finnish 5.4 - 936 - 173.3
> no: Norse 4.7 - 639 - 136.0 (speakers includes nn: Nynorsk as well)
> is: Icelandic 0.3 - 40 - 133.3
> en: English 354 - 44000 - 124.3 (number of contributors estimated)
> eo: Esperanto 1.05 - 118 - 112.4 (second language speakers)
> lb: Luxembourgish 0.3 - 31 - 103.3
> sv: Swedish 9 - 924 - 102.7
> he: Hebrew 7 - 601 - 85.9
> et: Estonian 1.08 - 92 - 85.2
> de: German 101 - 7549 - 74.7
> nl: Dutch 25 - 1652 - 66.1
> eu: Basque 0.7 - 45 - 64.3
> fr: French 67 - 3948 - 58.9
> sl: Slovenian 2.0 - 114 - 57.0
> ga: Irish 0.38 - 21 - 55.3
> da: Danish 5.6 - 276 - 49.3
> br: Breton 0.85 - 38 - 44.7
> cy: Welsh 0.75 - 28 - 37.3
> lt: Lithuanian 3.1 - 113 - 36.5
> cs: Czech 12 - 433 - 36.1
> pl: Polish 46 - 1597 - 34.7
> it: Italian 61 - 2017 - 33.1
> ja: Japanese 128 - 3842 - 29.9
> sk: Slovak 5.0 - 148 - 29.6
> ca: Catalan 6.7 - 195 - 29.1
> mk: Macedonian 1.6 - 44 - 27.5
> lv: Latvian 1.5 - 38 - 25.3
> hu: Hungarian 14 - 354 - 25.3
> bg: Bulgarian 7.6 - 188 - 24.7
> gl: Galician 3.2 - 68 - 21.3
> sh: Serbocratian 17 - 150 - 18.6 (number of contributors gathered by
> adding
> up sr:, hr: and bs:)
> el: Greek 12 - 132 - 11.0
> oc: Occitan 1.94 - 21 - 10.8
> ru: Russian 145 - 1164 - 8.0
> ro: Romanian 24 - 192 - 8.0
> es: Spanish 350 - 2600 - 7.4
> yi: Yiddish 3.2 - 23 - 7.2
> tr: Turkish 60 - 420 - 7.0
> ka: Georgian 4.2 - 26 - 6.2
> th: Thai 31 - 142 - 4.6
> pt: Portuguese 203 - 1323 - 4.4
> af: Afrikaans 6.0 - 25 - 4.2
> sq: Albanian 6.0 - 24 - 4.0
> uk: Ukrainian 39 - 131 - 3.4
> be: Belorussian 9.1 - 30 - 3.3
> ms: Malay 18 - 58 - 3.2
> als: Alemannic 10 - 29 - 2.9
> zh: Chinese 700 - 1527 - 2.2
> ko: Korean 71 - 150 - 2.1
> fa: Farsi 75 - 139 - 1.85
> vi: Vietnamese 70 - 116 - 1.66
> tl: Tagalog 22 - 24 - 1.09
> id: Indonesian 200 - 151 - 0.76 (second language speakers)
> ar: Arabic 270 - 177 - 0.66
> ml: Malayalam 37 - 24 - 0.65
> az: Azeri 30 - 18 - 0.60
> ta: Tamil 62 - 34 - 0.55
> te: Telugu 76 - 39 - 0.51
> uz: Uzbek 20 - 10 - 0.50
> su: Sundanese 27 - 12 - 0.44
> mr: Maratha 68 - 28 - 0.41
> zh-yue: Kantonese 71 - 29 - 0.41
> kn: Kannada 55 - 20 - 0.36
> ur: Urdu 61 - 16 - 0.26
> ps: Pashto 24 - 4 - 0.17
> bn: Bengali 196 - 29 - 0.15
> sd: Sindhi 20 - 2 - 0.10
> jv: Javanese 75 - 7 - 0.09
> hi: Hindi 337 - 26 - 0.08
> or: Oriya 24 - 1 - 0.04
> am: Amharic 27 - 1 - 0.04
> gu: Gujarati 46 - 1 - 0.02
> ha: Hausa 24 - 0 - 0
> om: Omoro 32 - 0 - 0
> my: Burmese 32 - 0 - 0
> pa: Punjabi 104 - 0 - 0
>
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