I develop the features of MediaWiki that are tightly related to the multilingual nature of Wikimedia projects, I want to develop these features in a way that will benefit as many people and languages as (reasonably) possible, so I want to know whatever can be known about what affects the size of wikis.
And no, I didn't forget about bots, I just didn't want to overload the email with disclaimers :) -- 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 22:16 GMT-08:00 Rui Correia <correia....@gmail.com>: > Hi Amir > > What exactly do you want from this? Is this just some personal > curiosity or are you going to do someting with it? > > And by the way, you forgot bots - the article counts for some of the > WP are driven by bots - the Dutch WP, for example. > > Rui > > 2015-01-26 4:05 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > > (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> > > > > -- > _________________________ > Rui Correia > Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant > Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant > > Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 > Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 > _______________ > > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
