Wiki advancement ratios

Today I checked Wikipedia statistics for different languages. Quite interesting:

by number of articles
by edits per article
by starting time
by traffic

Hebrew is rated fairly mediocre by number of articles (19-th place with ~43,800). On other hand we have a pretty good rates of edits-per-article and articles-per-total-pages-number and our Wiki started relatively late at July 2003. Thus the community seems to be strong and Hebrew Wiki shows a good prospect.

Polish Wiki have an unusually high number of articles and good traffic rate, but other ratings are lower.

Russian and Spanish show less progress than I expected.

And Arabic is just where I expected it to be - at 34-th place. I suppose all these princes with their cars, falcons and rifles don't have time to use computers. No single rich guy to pay pitiful $50,000 or so for transfer of a printed encyclopedia into Wiki engine just to save a face. Bah.

Song for patriotic prejudice

zhenyach представляет песенку комиков Фландерса и Свонна, призванную восполнить недостаток патриотизма в одной отдельно взятой... Начинается она "с типичного английского преуменьшения: The English, the English, the English are best".

And crossing the channel one cannot say much
For the French or the Spanish, the Danish or Dutch
The Germans are German, the Russians are Red
And the Greeks and Italians eat garlic in bed

The English are Moral, The English are Good
And Clever and Modest and Misunderstood

And all the world over each nation's the same
They've simply no notion of playing the game
It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad
It's just that they're foreign that makes them so mad

The English the English the English are best
So up with the English and down with the rest