There are 3 phenomena acting simultaneously against the number of visits to small projects: The bilingual effect, the size effect, and the Google effect. For Catalan case we estimate a penalization factor of 8.3 (that means that visits are 8.3 times less that what they should be). It comes from: 1.2 bilingual factor (visits lost because people also understand other languages, even if they have the opportunity to read the article in their mother tongue, they also read it in others). 2.5 size factor (visits to other projects because readers don’t find what they were looking for in their mother tongue). And 2,77 Google factor. (Visits lost because Google directs people to other tongues projects). The only positive factor is the bilingual one. We are working hard to correct the others. For other projects those factors can be very different but the concept can be there.
> > Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:40:06 -0700 > From: Mark Williamson <node...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from? Q&A > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <849f98ed1001160140h20c69f6fxa5a7a22d4b81e...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Sociolinguistic situations around the world are very complex I think. In > especially former European colonies, of which Kenya is but one example, the > language of the former colonial power often has a unique position in > society. > > It is not surprising to me that the English Wikipedia is so popular > compared > to any other in Kenya, but it is quite a bit more surprising that Korean, > Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Iranian, etc. users prefer the English > Wikipedia. > > Mark > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@googlemail.com > >wrote: > > > Dear Erik, > > > > Maybe there is a dirty Polish word looked up by many Polish pupils, > > and when they Google it they come to eu.WP because a Basque word > > accidentally is alike? :-) > > > > I am looking now for the interest in the native / the English > > Wikipedia in specific countries. It might be important how localized > > the software in general is. If you live in, say, Kenya, and your > > computer has Windows in English, the Internet Explorer and everything > > is oriented to English, and you google your home town in an English > > language Google, it is probable that you will get the Wikipedia > > article in English and not in Swahili. > > > > Kind regards > > Ziko > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
