Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/6 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: >>> 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>: >>>> When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP >>>> issues, I completely agree. >>> It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect >>> UK politicians, which are the subject of the article. >> >> Note that en:wp is more British than might be expected - >> according to a 2007 statistics run (by Greg Maxwell?), 50% of >> edits on en:wp are from the US and 25% are from the UK, even >> though the population ratio is 5:1. So UK residents edit 2.5x as >> much as US residents per capita. (I use this stat to correct UK >> journalists who think of Wikipedia as an American thing.) > > That's interesting. We should try and get some more up-to-date > stats on that - it would be useful for Wikimedia UK to have stats > like that to throw around in negotiations, etc., to show how > important we are.
For that matter, just look at the contributors to this list alone :-) Cary _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
