I assume, the answer is "all of this".
Erlend Bjørtvedt Oslo
Den mandag 26. januar 2015 skrev Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> følgende:
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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