[Wikipedia-l] Polish Wikipedia relatively most succesful, German second

[Erik Zachte]

Of course there are a myriad ways to measure succes of each Wikipedia.

For what it's worth I tried to establish the ratio of active contributors
per million internet users that speak that language.

So per language the figure shows that one of x thousand native speakers with
internet access contributed to Wikipedia in that language

Polish	22
German	31
Dutch		39
Hebrew	40
Danish	44
Swedish	49
Catalan	49
French	49
Finnish	51
English	53
Norwegian	55
Hungarian	94
Romanian	109
Slovenian	117
Italian	166
Japanese	168
Czech		216
Spanish	236
Vietnamese	367
Greek		386
Portugues	431
Russian	638
Chinese	687
Turkish	725
Arabic	870
Malay		967
Korean	2920

For contributors I used wikistats Feb 26 (counts registered users > 10
edits)

For internet users per language I used figures from Global Reach (2003)

http://global-reach.biz/globstats/index.php3

Of course I don't know how exact these figures are,
but I assume they did some homework.

Note : the GR figures list >native< speakers, so actually languages with
international appeal would show lower participation ratios (higher numbers
in the table) if all web users that might be inclined to use that language
were taken into account.

E.g. GR mentions India specifically as a country where the web language is
English and not Hindi.

Erik Zachte