Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-15 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our readers come from? > > > >   http://tinyurl.com/yhdej3j > > > > Cheers, Erik Zachte > > > > ___ > found

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Thursday 14 January 2010 09:24:16 Nikola Smolenski написа: > At Wikipedia Page Views Per Country - Overview, could you in future > include number of Internet users (f.e. from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users > ) and number of views per Internet user?

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Marcus Buck wrote: > > It would make sense. But at the moment  WMDE is not even actively doing > anything for the _native_ languages of Germany except for German. I > think that would be the first step to do. > I had a quick look at the native languages of Italy,

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Marcus Buck
Nikola Smolenski hett schreven: > In Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown I also notice something > that should affect chapter relations: there are some Wikipedias which > are read from foreign countries more than from the country of origin > (probably b/c readers from diaspora is riche

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Andrew Gray
2010/1/14 Nikola Smolenski : > Nikola Smolenski wrote: >> In Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown I also notice something >> that should affect chapter relations: there are some Wikipedias which > > Also, any ideas why is Commons so popular in Spain and Latin America? Some Wikipedias - th

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Nikola Smolenski wrote: > In Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown I also notice something > that should affect chapter relations: there are some Wikipedias which Also, any ideas why is Commons so popular in Spain and Latin America? Commons (commons) (0.010% share of global total) Spain

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Andre Engels wrote: > Going through the countries, another remarkable result in my opinion > is the Ukraine - Ukrainian is not a small language by any means, yet > Wikipedia visitors tend to be drawn to the Russian Wikipedia instead. > > Also, the Q3-Q4 comparison for most countries shows a shift

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our readers come from? And, (sorry) one more question: is the first time that such reports are being released? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Andre Engels
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Ziko van Dijk wrote: >> Thank you for the numbers, Erik! >> I wonder why 40 % of the visitors of ksh.WP (the dialect of Cologne) are >> from Japan. And why 25 % of the visitors of eu.WP (Basque) are from Poland? > > Bots? I think that's a

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Thank you for the numbers, Erik! > I wonder why 40 % of the visitors of ksh.WP (the dialect of Cologne) are > from Japan. And why 25 % of the visitors of eu.WP (Basque) are from Poland? Bots? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, Thank you for the numbers, Erik! I wonder why 40 % of the visitors of ksh.WP (the dialect of Cologne) are from Japan. And why 25 % of the visitors of eu.WP (Basque) are from Poland? Kind regards Ziko 2010/1/14 Mark Williamson > I think there are two main factors influencing this: > > #

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Williamson
I think there are two main factors influencing this: # Fluency of the Internet-using population of a country in English. In a country like Japan, basic English is widespread but real reading comprehension on the level necessary for reading WP articles is not (as far as I know at least). Scandinavi

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Waerth
H what saddens me is that such a low percentage use the Thai wikipedia in Thailand instead of the English one. Having lived in Thailand for over 10 years now my estimation is that only 10% of the populous would speak English good enough to be able to read English wikipedia articles at least

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > > To quantify this, I have taken the 50 largest countries, excluding > languages where English is the main language (United States, United > Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Philippines, Singapore, Ireland, > New Zealand, South Africa). For

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Andre Engels
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our readers come from? > > > >   http://tinyurl.com/yhdej3j Going through the countries, another remarkable result in my opinion is the Ukraine - Ukra

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our readers come from? > > http://tinyurl.com/yhdej3j Except for Australia-Japanese, there is also this: Sierra Leone (0.0007% share of global total) Russian Wp 44.9% Englis

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Williamson
Ethnologue has numbers for all languages although their information is often outdated or not 100% accurate, it is sufficient if you're doing a list with many languages. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Erik Zachte wrote: > > Today I released 4 new reports, which all fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our readers come from? > > http://tinyurl.com/yhdej3j Excellent and extremely useful! A big thank you! :) A few questions: Could we get this for other projects? At Wikipedia Pa

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-13 Thread teun spaans
Hi Erik, thank you. Very nice. One suggestion: for trends, i would expect a bar indicating upward or downward trend, not a percentage bar. live long and prosper teun On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Erik Zachte wrote: > Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on: > > Where do our reader