Kelly Martin wrote:
* NL and BE are language sluts.
This does not seem very likely. I just don't see 26.7% Dutch
contributors on the Danish Wikipedia. Who are they?
Even if you did include some interwiki link robot in the
statistics, 26.7% of all contributions (or contributors?) seems
far too much.
That users in Belgium are split between French and Dutch is the
nature of this country. Belgium originates 1.8% of all
contributions, which is also reasonable.
It's the number of users from the Netherlands that are far too
many, 6.1% of all contributors, ranking as the 4th contributor
country. They should rank lower then contributors from France
(5.6%) and closer to Belgium. Perhaps they should be half their
present number (3.1%).
I guess the odd statistics could be explained by some major ISP
(UPC/Chello?) reporting their entire European network to be
located in the Netherlands. Did you check this?
Assuming that half of the reported number are real Dutchmen, that
would put their contributions 66% in the Dutch Wikipedia, 25% in
the English Wikipedia, and 9% in other places. The other half of
the alleged Dutchmen could be equally distributed among other
European countries. The reported Dutch contributions to other
languages could be moved to each native country, thus the Danish
Wikipedia would have 54.8 + 26.7 = 81.5% contributions from
Denmark. That makes more sense.
You need to fix the error in the geolocation database, or to
exclude the IP addresses that you fail to locate correctly.
Alternatively, you could count the problematic ISP as a virtual
country of its own. Just don't count them as Dutch people.
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