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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by dlubarov on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:33PM (#26039625)
Maybe my wording was a bit strong, but the US is a pretty small minority of Wikipedia's usage. If we look at article counts, about 12% of articles are in English (5.8M of 49.3M): https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm
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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by pwinnski on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:58PM (#26039886)
Right, so more than twice as much as #2 (2.3M), at least in December 18.

And more recently, the US has more than four times as many pageviews as #2 (4B to Japan's 1B)[0].

So no, I don't think the work is done outside the US, and I think maintaining a leading position doesn't happen automatically, so I don't think the work is entirely done inside the US, either.

0. https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/reading/page-view...

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