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Monday, November 17, 2008

International Catalan speakers the world's 15th-most productive Wikipedists, English speakers the 28th. Also: Korfball.

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:03 PM

This informal study, posted last year, divides the number of Wikipedia articles in a given language by the total language-speaker population, and voilà—a chart showing which languages are, per head, the most prolific Wikipedia writers:

(The first column is productivity ranking, the second is gross number of articles, the third is the name of the language. See the whole chart, with all 50 languages here.)

Prod | Article | Language

1 | 48 | Icelandic
2 | 15 | Esperanto
3 | 41 | Basque
4 | 31 | Estonian
5 | 9 | Swedish
6 | 14 | Norwegian
7 | 27 | Slovenian
8 | 13 | Finnish
9 | 6 | Dutch
10 | 16 | Slovak
11 | 28 | Lithuanian
12 | 18 | Danish
13 | 19 | Hebrew
14 | 4 | Polish
15 | 20 | Catalan
16 | 42 | Ido*
17 | 35 | Galician
18 | 3 | French
19 | 2 | German
20 | 17 | Czech
21 | 32 | Croatian
22 | 36 | Norwegian (Nynorsk)
23 | 29 | Bulgarian
24 | 7 | Italian
25 | 26 | Serbian
26 | 22 | Hungarian
27 | 44 | Georgian
28 | 1 | English
29 | 50 | Bosnian
30 | 5 | Japanese

Other ways Catalonia is whupping the United States: they've got less breast cancer and just beat England to take the number five slot in the International Korfball Federation!

And 10 out of 10 Americans don't even know what the fuck korfball is!

We're doomed!

(*What is Ido, you ask? Nü-Esperanto! DOOOOOOM!)

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That's cause only the Dutch and Belgians play Korfbal!

Posted by Mike on November 17, 2008 at 2:05 PM

Serbs beat English speakers?! No way. Here I thought they would rather have a coffee than type some info.

Posted by WonderingWilla on November 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM

Go Estonia!

Posted by Abby on November 17, 2008 at 2:26 PM

Well, that pretty much explains why the Icelandic economy collapsed. Estonian and Swedish economists would be sweating bullets right now, if they weren't too busy writing Wikipedia articles.

Posted by eclexia on November 17, 2008 at 2:36 PM

If you want to call contributing to Wikipedia "productive".

Posted by Mahtli69 on November 17, 2008 at 2:39 PM

Polish 4th in total entries? Dutch 5th, ahead of Spanish? That’s way more impressive.

Thanks for the Catalan propaganda though. Yes, we know Spain would never have won the 2008 European soccer championships nor made it to the finals of men’s Olympic basketball tournament without the genius of their Catalan players, and Picasso never would’ve become a great artist if he hadn’t lived in Barcelona, blah blah blah.

In the per head count, Catalans are behind the Basques—2nd best in northern Spain. Must take some doing.

Posted by Biff on November 17, 2008 at 2:53 PM

Catalans are undoubtedly in the top three (along with Basques and Galicians) in *not ever returning with your order* if you are native Spanish with Madrilian accent.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale on November 17, 2008 at 2:58 PM

@7: does any area that isn't Madrid return with said order?

Posted by Abby on November 17, 2008 at 3:04 PM

For crazy Northern European sports Pesäpallo is the way to go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pes%C3%A4pa…

Posted by Postureduck on November 17, 2008 at 3:16 PM

Abby -- I believe so. Those three places were the places where the guy with the gringo madrilian accent had to roll the r's for the team.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale on November 17, 2008 at 3:29 PM

I am shocked that the Japanese are less wiki than us.

Posted by Will in Seattle on November 17, 2008 at 3:38 PM

Bitch, please. 1 guy --> 48 articles? All I need is a weekend and a couple of books, and I could make Sindarin the most productive language on Wikipedia.

Posted by Greg on November 17, 2008 at 5:51 PM

Also, Will, that's because 2chan sucks up all their productivity.

Posted by Greg on November 17, 2008 at 5:52 PM

Plus, Catalans have delicious pa amb tomaquet!

Posted by ejamadoodle on November 17, 2008 at 6:02 PM

Visca Catalunya!

Posted by Claude Souvenir on November 17, 2008 at 6:36 PM

"They say Yankee you'd better watch what you say, unless you're sayin' it in Basque or in Catalan."

-Ted Leo

Posted by Asa on November 18, 2008 at 7:17 AM

Do not forget that catalan Wikipedia was the only non english wikipedia with articles for over two months, and that was in March 2001!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Wik…

Here is a message from Jimmy Walles showing interest in creating wikipedias in other languages, with special mention to Catalan:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wik…

Here you can see the evolution of the different wikipedias at the very beginning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:M…)

Posted by Pau on November 24, 2008 at 7:35 AM