[Foundation-l] An observation on languages

Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod at mccme.ru
Fri Jan 25 23:45:17 UTC 2008


> All in all, English users outnumbered other-language users by 28 to 11
> (counting the 3 doubles as other-language and the 6 unknowns as 4
> English, 2 not counted). That's slightly over 70% English users,
> whereas they're less than half of our volunteer population (as far as
> I know).
>

Given that this is an English language list, and many WP volunteers do not
speak English, this might be not so much surprising. A good thing to check
would be a percentage of English users among English-speaking volunteers,
but I doubt that such statistics are available.

Cheers,
Yaroslav





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