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
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
2010/1/15 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
Based on Erik's statistics [1] and Nikola's addition of Internet users
[2] and the list of Wikimedia chapters [3], here is the first set of
conclusions.
* United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan:
I have good contacts with
Дана Saturday 16 January 2010 10:40:06 Mark Williamson написа:
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
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Erik Zachte erikzac...@infodisiac.com wrote:
Q: Nikola Smolenski / Milos Rancic
At Wikipedia Page Views By Country - Breakdown [1] and Wikipedia Page Views
By Country - Trends [2] could you include more languages (ideally all
languages)?
Some of the numbers
Дана Friday 15 January 2010 23:39:38 Erik Zachte написа:
R: Nikola Smolenski
It is obvious why Slovene Wikipedia is highly visited in Sierra Leone, and
Serbian in Suriname; URLs do matter :)
Although, I don't understand why so much. I would expect this distribution
by visitors, perhaps, but
I read all kind of confusions about funny correlations between language
versions and countries where visitors are coming from.
As I (privately) communicated with Erik, the following flaws are in the
current analysis:
* The country code AU is often used (by apnic in this case) as a placeholder
Дана Friday 15 January 2010 23:39:38 Erik Zachte написа:
Here is a much more extended version of the breakdown report [1] (for this
discussion only)
It shows per country up to 50 Wikipedia's
An extra column shows the total number of records for this country/language
(for the 6 month period)
