Northern Sami Wikipedia Explained
The Northern Sami Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Northern Sami language.[1]
It was used as one example of how Wikipedia's categories system works (in the context of social ontologies).[2]
Statistics
It started in 2004 and has articles, ranking of all Wikipedias.[3]
- ReadersIt is 134th of about 290 in number of page requests: half a million page requests per month, but not possible to know how many human readers.
- ContentIt is 137th of about 290 in number of articles (there are); articles are about 500 characters long on average with approximately 400 000 words in total. It's above average in terms of editors/speakers and articles/speakers, there are many articles about towns around the world (mostly automated creations).
- User activityThere were almost no new articles in 2008–2011, new articles usually come in bursts; in 2013 editing activity was lower than in previous years with fewer than 10 active editors per month making fewer than 100 edits per month.[4] There are currently active users and activity is still low.
Notes
- Yle Ođđasat Saamenkieliset tv-uutiset, Digisaame, Yle TV1, . (Section in the Sami news of the main TV channel of Finland.)
- Mehler . Alexander . Pustylnikov . Olga . Diewald. Nils . 2008 . Geography of Social Ontologies: Testing a Variant of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in the Context of Wikipedia . Computer Speech & Language . 25. 3. 716–740. 10.1016/j.csl.2010.05.006 .
- Web site: List of Wikipedias. 19 April 2022.
- All these statistics from Erik Zachte, Wikipedia Statistics Northern Sami, stats.wikimedia.org (accessed 19 March 2014).
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