[Wikimediaindia-l] New Stats- Global perspective about Wikipedia Page edits

[Gautam John]

Thank you, Salmaan. These are fascinating data points and also, provide a
road-map, of sorts, to the community.

Best,

Gautam
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On 8 September 2010 03:20, theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone
>
> Just wanted to inform everyone that there are some new statistics available
> about global Wikipedia usage for Q3 of this year.
>
>
> http://infodisiac.com/blog/2010/09/wikipedia-page-edits-a-global-perspective/
>
> I just saw some surprising trends if you look at a language and
> country-wise breakdown of page views and edits.
>
> 1.India is No. 15 globally in terms of Wikipedia page views and edits which
> is expected for having only 7% internet usage, one of the lowest in the
> first 50 countries on the list.
>
> 2. India is still the fifth largest viewer of the English Wikipedia.
>
> 3. 94% of Indian Wikimedians view the English Wikipedia, the second largest
> language group for India after English is Hindi with 0.6% of total views.
>
>
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerCountryTrends.htm
>
> 4. 70% of edits from India are on the English Wikipedia (this marks a
> gradual fall in edits from 81% in Q4 2009) followed by 6.6% for Telugu (this
> quarter also marks a large increase in edits in Telugu and Tamil languages,
> while Hindi and Malayalam both registered a drop)
>
>
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportEditsPerCountryTrends.htm
>
> The most surprising information is in the language-wise breakdown of edits
> per country:
>
>
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportVisitsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm#
>
> The first Indian language on the list by 0.03% of global share is Hindi,
> followed by Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi, all at 0.02% of global Usage. the
> most surprising statistics is that the largest Page views to these languages
> is not from India but the US sometimes more than several times the number of
> views from India. Tamil is the only language where this disparity as its
> lowest.
>
> The number of views from India is highest at 94% to the English Wikipedia
> but the number of edits has been steadily dropping at a very sharp rate
> (almost 10% in the last year).
>
>
> Regards
>
> Salmaan
>
>
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