Interesting stat of the day: The second most visited Wikipedia in the UK is Polish. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdownHuge.htm
The non-English 'local' languages don't even register in that breakdown, being less than 0.1% of pageviews. Of course this could be taken two ways: * We shouldn't spend too much time on them if they're of such minority interest * We need to spend time promoting them better, and making them viable projects Pete / the wub On 30 September 2011 18:05, Richard Farmbrough <[email protected]> wrote: > It is certainly the case that there is (European) money around these > languages, indeed I have been trying to get the content of the European > funded dictionaries released CC-By-... > > It is important to remember, though, as Thomas pointed out (and was > pointed out by members of both Lang Com and WMF staff at Wikimania) > that the aims of language revitalisers (or saviours), while closely > allied with ours, are not identical. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
