On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Marcus Buck <[email protected]> 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, and I found out that the percentage of visits from Italy is much smaller for the regional languages: Italian: 90.4% Neapolitan: 45.8% Tarantino: 43.2% Emiliano-Romagnolo: 34.5% Venetian: 33.9% Lombard: 29.5% Sicilian: 27.6% Sardinian: 26.4% Piedmontese: 24.8% Friulian: 17.8% Ligurian: 17.6% I see a couple of reasons for this difference: 1) Bot visits count proportionally much more in smaller wikis 2) We know that, at least in some of these projects, a lot of contributors are migrants (even 2nd or 3rd generation) that try to maintain the regional languages their parents/grandparents used (Italy had a lot of emigration in the 20th century), so it shouldn't be hard to imagine that the same happens for the readers. This also partly explains why Wikimedia Italia has little penetration within this projects. It would be interesting to see if the same happens for other countries, for example Germany Cruccone _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
