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.
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.
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I don't think it's as simple as that. Not many encyclopaedia articles are up to Wiki standards, so it's more work than there seems to be at first glance.
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Do you mean transfer copyrighted material from printed Arabic encyclopedia to public domain costs as little as $50,000?
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Or one can just take some old edition not covered by copyright. Therefore all you need is scaner and several non-employed students.
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