I've noted Finland (as a country) before when looking at Erik's data - IIRC, there's a vaguely normal-looking distribution of pages-per-internet-user-per-month for the Western European countries, and Finland is at the upper end but not a dramatic outlier, it's in a group with eg Sweden, Austria, etc.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryOverview.htm This pattern has been around since at least 2012: http://web.archive.org/web/20120922063053/http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryOverview.htm (not sure why the 2012 per-country numbers are so much higher...) Andrew. On 16 March 2015 at 09:30, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Awesome work! It's interesting to see Finnish as the outlier here. Do > we have any fi-users on the list who can comment on this and might > know what's going on? (And, in the absence of Finns: Jan, heard > anything from across the border? :p) > > The only caution I'd raise is that these numbers don't include spider > filtering. Why is this important? Well, a lot of traffic is driven by > crawlers and spiders and automata, particularly on smaller projects, > and it can lead to weirdness as a result. With the granular pagecount > files there's some work that can be done to detect this (for example, > using burst detection and a few heuristics around concentration > measures to eliminate pages that are clearly driven by automated > traffic - see the recent analytics mailing list thread) but only some. > I appreciate this is a flaw in the data we are releasing, not in your > work, which is an excellent read and highly interesting :). I agree > that understanding the lack of development in the PRC and ROK is > crucial - we keep talking about the "next billion readers" but only > talking :( > > On 16 March 2015 at 02:21, h <hant...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I have some findings to show the page views per Internet user >> measurement may help comparing different language editions of Wikipedia. >> Criticism and suggestions are welcome. >> >> >> ----- >> http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2015/03/15/comparing-language-development-in-wikipedia-in-terms-of-page-views-per-internet-users/ >> >> Which language version of Wikipedia enjoys the most page views per language >> Internet user than expected? It is Finnish. In terms of absolute positive >> and negative gap, English has the widest positive gap whereas Chinese has >> the largest negative gap. >> >> ...... >> >> In particular, it is known that Wikipedia (and Google which often favours >> Wikipedia) faces local competition in the People's Republic of China and >> South Korea. Therefore it is understandable the page views may be lower in >> Chinese and Korean Wikipedia language projects simply because some users' >> need to read user-generated encyclopedias are satisfied by other websites. >> However, it remains an important question to examine why these particular >> Latin and Asian languages are under-developed for Wikipedia projects. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
