Wiki advancement ratios

[arpad]

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.

Comments

[dimrub.livejournal.com]

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.

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.

[yms.livejournal.com]

for transfer of a printed encyclopedia into Wiki engine

Do you mean transfer copyrighted material from printed Arabic encyclopedia to public domain costs as little as $50,000?

[ygam.livejournal.com]

Hindi, with 800 million speakers, is number 96.