2009/3/6 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>: > >>> When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I >>> completely agree. > >> It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK >> politicians, which are the subject of the article. > > > Note that en:wp is more British than might be expected - according to > a 2007 statistics run (by Greg Maxwell?), 50% of edits on en:wp are > from the US and 25% are from the UK, even though the population ratio > is 5:1. So UK residents edit 2.5x as much as US residents per capita. > (I use this stat to correct UK journalists who think of Wikipedia as > an American thing.)
That's interesting. We should try and get some more up-to-date stats on that - it would be useful for Wikimedia UK to have stats like that to throw around in negotiations, etc., to show how important we are. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
