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. 2012 Jan 17;7(1):e30091. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030091

Table 1. Wikipedias Statistics.

WP Language M. Country Speakers Articles Edits Users Active IP% Offset S. D.
Ar Arabic * 255 146 8 368 2433 12 +2 2.5
bg Bulgarian Bulgaria 9 115 4 89 848 14 2 4.4
ca Catalan Andorra 7 337 7 85 1749 6 0 5.2
cs Czech CzechRep. 11 192 6 146 2329 9 1 4.3
da Danish Denmark 5 147 5 128 1364 10 1 4.3
de German Germany 128 1214 91 1205 24519 16 1 5
en English -* 600 3609 455 14340 151549 10 −6+ 2.7
eo Esperanto - 2 143 3 49 466 6 +1 3.5
es Spanish -* 460 748 48 1789 15647 26 +1 4.4
fa Persian Iran 110 124 6 217 1890 5 3.5 2.7
fi Finnish Finland 5 266 10 175 2060 16 2 4.8
fr French France 172 1088 68 1037 16546 14 1 4.5
he Hebrew Israel 5 116 11 140 2020 31 2 4.5
hu Hungarian Hungary 13 187 10 167 2055 6 1 5.3
id Indonesian Indonesia 160 159 5 247 1881 9 8 2.6
it Italian Italy 62 790 43 620 8279 18 1 5.6
ja Japanese Japan 126 743 37 510 10571 37 9 4.8
ko Korean Korea 67 159 7 147 1916 14 9 3.4
lt Lithuanian Lithuania 3 131 3 46 497 7 2 4.6
nl Dutch Netherlands 20 681 25 381 5125 10 1 5.1
no Norwegian Norway 4 297 9 194 2413 8 1 4.7
pl Polish Poland 44 793 27 425 5403 14 1 5.2
pt Portuguese -* 230 680 25 852 5770 20 0§ 4.2
ro Romanian Romania 27 158 5 181 1255 7 2 3.6
ru Russian Russia 277 699 35 652 12841 16 3 4.3
simple sim.English -* - 69 2 176 746 13 −6+ 2.3
sk Slovak Slovakia 5 122 3 58 612 7 1 3.7
sl Slovenian Slovenia 1 109 2 78 579 4 1 3.8
sr Serbian Serbia 11 141 4 81 672 5 1 3.5
sv Swedish Sweden 9 392 14 221 3467 14 1 4.5
tr Turkish Turkey 75 158 9 337 2499 24 2 4.5
uk Ukrainian Ukraine 37 274 6 99 1929 5 2 4
vi Vietnamese Vietnam 86 201 4 223 1156 8 7 2.7
zh Chinese China 1300 351 16 984 5696 13 8 3.7

*For the languages which are widely spoken in the world, the origin country is not well-defined.

Esperanto has never been an official language of any country.

Egypt (the most populated Arab country) time zone.

+

USA Central standard time zone.

Central European time zone.

Spain time zone.

§

Portugal time zone.

Statistics about WPs under investigation. Name of the WP, language, the most populated country, in which the language is spoken, and total number of speakers in the world (millions) are reported in columns 1 to 4, followed by number of articles (thousands) in the WP, number of edits (millions), number of users (thousands), number of active users (users which have edited in the last month), and the percentage of edits by unregistered users (known by their IP-addresses) to the all edits. Two last columns consist of the assigned UTC offset to each WP and the Sleep Depth respectively. The demographic data is taken from Wikipedia and supposed to give an impression to the reader. In the paper, there is not any analysis based on this data.