On 24 October 2011 21:40, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/10/2011 19:45, David Gerard wrote:
>> Though those told us an interesting thing: ~50% of edits on en:wp are >> from the US, ~25% are from the UK. The populations are 300m and 60m >> respectively. This means that per head of population, British editors >> are 2 1/2 times as active as American ones - English WIkipedia thus >> has disproportionate British participation. (I got to use this on >> someone from the BBC a coupla years ago, gathering background, who'd >> assumed en:wp was basically an American effort. He was quite >> impressed.) > Remind me how the "US" vs. "UK" editor class is defined..... by IP address? Yep. I can't find a copy of the report right now, but I recall he processed a list of actual IP numbers for edits. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
