2009/9/23 Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]>: > The reason "how we have not reached large parts of the world yet" is > because access to Wikipedia is significantly influenced by things > outside of Wikimedia's control and scope.
A dramatic demonstration of this: if someone in Beijing flips a switch tomorrow, and zh.wp becomes blocked, our potential audience changes by three hundred million (internet users) or a billion (speakers) overnight (depending if you count population or internet users) and our nominal penetration among Chinese-speakers would presumably collapse as a result. > Surely someone must have a respectable count of internet users by > language that we could use for comparison? That would be a much better > metric for our success today; while raw literate speaker numbers would > be a useful comparison for what we could start reaching with > non-internet mechanisms. There's a couple of estimates on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage though they look a little dated. Alternatively, users by country is reasonably well estimated, I think, and you could try estimating based on languages from that. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
