I develop the features of MediaWiki that are tightly related to the multilingual nature of Wikimedia projects, I want to develop these features in a way that will benefit as many people and languages as (reasonably) possible, so I want to know whatever can be known about what affects the size of wikis.
And no, I didn't forget about bots, I just didn't want to overload the email with disclaimers :)
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2015-01-25 22:16 GMT-08:00 Rui Correia correia.rui@gmail.com:
Hi Amir
What exactly do you want from this? Is this just some personal curiosity or are you going to do someting with it?
And by the way, you forgot bots - the article counts for some of the WP are driven by bots - the Dutch WP, for example.
Rui
2015-01-26 4:05 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il:
(And yes, I know that Language planning and some of the other items are
not
measurable as numbers. I'm throwing ideas around.)
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2015-01-25 17:57 GMT-08:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il :
Hi,
It is well-known that the size of a Wikipedia in a given language is not proportional to the number of people who speak that language. By "size"
I
mean the article count and the active editor count.
This begs the question: Is it proportional to anything else?
I can think of a bunch of possible things (to most items you can add
"...
in the countries where this language is spoken"):
- Penetration of Internet access
- Quality of education
- Number of people who know other major languages, such as English,
French, Russian, Spanish, etc.
- Number of people who *don't* know other major languages
- Gross domestic product
- Human Development Index
- The level of usage of this language in the education system (in some
countries schools function in foreign languages)
- Amount of published literature in that language
- Level of censorship and press freedom
- [[Language planning]] policies (think Catalonia, Ukraine, Quebec,
Israel)
It is quite possible that the size of a Wikipedia is proportional not to one of these things, but to a combination of them. It is also possible
that
it is not proportional to any of the above, or to anything at all.
Did anybody ever try to research this?
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