(And yes, I know that Language planning and some of the other items are not measurable as numbers. I'm throwing ideas around.)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2015-01-25 17:57 GMT-08:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > Hi, > > It is well-known that the size of a Wikipedia in a given language is not > proportional to the number of people who speak that language. By "size" I > mean the article count and the active editor count. > > This begs the question: Is it proportional to anything else? > > I can think of a bunch of possible things (to most items you can add "... > in the countries where this language is spoken"): > > * Penetration of Internet access > * Quality of education > * Number of people who know other major languages, such as English, > French, Russian, Spanish, etc. > * Number of people who *don't* know other major languages > * Gross domestic product > * Human Development Index > * The level of usage of this language in the education system (in some > countries schools function in foreign languages) > * Amount of published literature in that language > * Level of censorship and press freedom > * [[Language planning]] policies (think Catalonia, Ukraine, Quebec, Israel) > > It is quite possible that the size of a Wikipedia is proportional not to > one of these things, but to a combination of them. It is also possible that > it is not proportional to any of the above, or to anything at all. > > Did anybody ever try to research this? > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
