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| Snesgamer Groupie Afghanistan Joined 6622 days ago 81 posts - 90 votes  Studies: English*, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Scottish Gaelic | Message 25 of 55 26 November 2006 at 4:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, according to that list, everybody would be learning Polish over Spanish which comes in at number 10? That already makes this criteria seem pretty foolish.
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| OCCASVS Tetraglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6654 days ago 134 posts - 140 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Italian*, English, French, Polish | Message 26 of 55 26 November 2006 at 4:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Why is Wikipedia much more popular among Poles than among Spanish speaking people? Edited by OCCASVS on 26 November 2006 at 4:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Topsiderunner Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6929 days ago 215 posts - 218 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Arabic (Written) | Message 27 of 55 26 November 2006 at 7:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Some of it has to do with internet access and speed of connection, Poland
might be a more wired and internet savvy country than places in South America. In the specific case of Spanish, many of the original contributers to the Spanish wikipedia started a fork (enciclopedia.us.es) in 2002 because they mistakenly believed that wikipedia was going to begin placing advertisements on pages. This somewhat stunted the growth of it until new editors arrived. If someone really wanted to base their language learning descisions on internet usage, they should instead look at total figures for the entire world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_on_the_Internet). This would place English in first, Chinese second, and Spanish or Japanese in third. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6779 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 28 of 55 26 November 2006 at 8:08am | IP Logged | ||
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On the other hand, the Spanish are avid bloggers. Spanish-language blogs trail only Japanese, English, and Chinese.
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| nhk9 Senior Member Canada Joined 6815 days ago 290 posts - 319 votes Speaks: English* | Message 29 of 55 27 November 2006 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not as simple as that. For example, had the gov't of PR China lifted most restrictions in its Great Firewall of China, you'd see a huge lift in the Chinese Wikipedia's page numbers.
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| GoodSirJava Diglot Newbie United States down-with-big-brothe Joined 6720 days ago 21 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Japanese, Czech | Message 30 of 55 30 November 2006 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd like to point out that the number of articles on a given Wikipedia is also an indirect indicator of the average length and quality of articles on that Wikipedia.
Where do I find all these Japanese language blogs, btw? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6779 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 31 of 55 01 December 2006 at 2:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Technorati, Google Japan, or Yahoo Japan. :)
According to a thing I saw at Technorati a few months ago, 35% of all blog posts they index are in Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy_Liu Triglot Senior Member Hong Kong leibby.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6797 days ago 255 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Mandarin, Cantonese*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 32 of 55 06 December 2006 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | ||
Not really. The third ban was lifted half a month before for a couple of days. Number of users did increase at a much higher rate, but since many of them are newbies, there was neither a huge increase in page numbers nor better quality of new articles. Many violated copyrights. Also, the problem of neutrality changed since more of the then newcomers had different political ideas... I'd rather "prefer" a looser ban to the recent ban, which even blocks https and prevents more mainland wikipedians from accessing wikipedias. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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