Interesting insights Antoine. How do you think development of NLP applications will influence the "internet languages"? I assume countries whose language is not popular and the national market is small will only rely on language-agnostic apps or will adapt to the dominant market language.
When I look at the editor statistics, I feel that there might a phenomenon like a "first phase" in which a lot of articles you would expect in an encyclopedia are missing and a "second phase" in which every such article already exists and most of the editing is either 1. improving these articles 2. writing articles on specialized topics that would never have been covered in another encyclopedia (like articles on individual movies, towns and so on). In this "second phase" there is therefore less editing activity.
The German peak we see could then be when the German Wikipedia was in this first phase and they achieved it so fast that they reached their "second phase" rapidly, in which there is less editing than in Spanish for instance (maybe only in relative terms but not in absolute terms?), which still has to finish its first phase. It seems that the Japanese have the same pattern as the Germans (probably because they were the biggest economies in 2005 with the US). But French and Spanish seem to have been slow so maybe their first phase is spanned along many years.
Interesting insights Antoine. How do you think development of NLP applications will influence the "internet languages"? I assume countries whose language is not popular and the national market is small will only rely on language-agnostic apps or will adapt to the dominant market language.
When I look at the editor statistics, I feel that there might a phenomenon like a "first phase" in which a lot of articles you would expect in an encyclopedia are missing and a "second phase" in which every such article already exists and most of the editing is either 1. improving these articles 2. writing articles on specialized topics that would never have been covered in another encyclopedia (like articles on individual movies, towns and so on). In this "second phase" there is therefore less editing activity.
The German peak we see could then be when the German Wikipedia was in this first phase and they achieved it so fast that they reached their "second phase" rapidly, in which there is less editing than in Spanish for instance (maybe only in relative terms but not in absolute terms?), which still has to finish its first phase. It seems that the Japanese have the same pattern as the Germans (probably because they were the biggest economies in 2005 with the US). But French and Spanish seem to have been slow so maybe their first phase is spanned along many years.