Can you name the Languages of Wikipedia Articles (with over 100k articles)? by karate02

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Languages of Wikipedia Articles Quiz

by karate02

Created Nov 21, 2009 in Just For Fun
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	quizzicle:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 04:21 GMT		6 points
	hmm.. number of speakers of a language is not proportional to number of articles on wikipedia. nice quiz!

	Rdub19:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 04:24 GMT		7 points
	Nice quiz. A little surprised Simple English isn't there. Guess we're all dumbed down enough.

	Stewart:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 06:02 GMT		21 points
	According to wikipedia there are "an estimated 20 Volapük speakers in the world today." That means there are 6000 wikipedia entries for each speaker, which has got to be far and away the highest per-capita count!

	fluffy:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 06:15 GMT		9 points
	I tried typing in 'Klingon'...

	MathijsP:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 07:20 GMT		6 points
	No Greek/Hindi? Or Luxembourgish? :P

	swellwrench:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 07:41 GMT		11 points
	The Volapük Wikipedia probably shouldn't be included. Practically all of its articles are bot-generated from census data and such, and for that reason it's usually excluded from Wikipedia's own lists.

	Osprey39:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 09:02 GMT		4 points
	God I hate that second "I" in Ukrainian. By which I actually mean the first one.

	minus_the_bear:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 11:41 GMT		25 points
	FINALLY!!! a quiz where wikipedia is a truly acceptable citation!

	orbit:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 13:21 GMT		6 points
	Probably should accept Mandarin for Chinese.

	johnlk:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 14:51 GMT		6 points
	Polish being ahead of Spanish and Italian is really surprising.

	karate02:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 17:18 GMT		0 points
	@ orbit: It was my understanding that Mandarin is the term for the spoken dialect of Chinese, while Chinese is for the written form, which includes other dialects such as Cantonese. Since Wikipedia is in written form...I choose to not use Mandarin.

	smreidy113:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 18:15 GMT		6 points
	Finally, us polaks are up the lists in something.

	JasonJP:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 20:45 GMT		1 point
	You'd think there would be more Chinese articles. Nice quiz!

	Spl89:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 21:24 GMT		2 points
	I can't believe how many Esperanto articles there are, I really didn't think there were many speakers.

	hifikepunye:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 22:30 GMT		5 points
	What is the world coming to, that Wikipedia has more articles in Esperanto than Korean?

	swellwrench:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 22:43 GMT		18 points
	Keep in mind that the kind of person who would learn Esperanto also tends to be the kind who would edit Wikipedia a lot

	hyyw:	Nov 23rd, 2009 at 03:09 GMT		4 points
	There are more Esperanto speakers than you'd think (at least a hundred thousand).

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	nucleolus101:	Nov 28th, 2009 at 12:35 GMT		1 point
	also, shoudn't this be in language category?

	gowhere:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 21:13 GMT		5 points
	I think you need a better source than Wikipedia. Just kidding! : )

	Robert_Seth:	Mar 30th, 2010 at 16:18 GMT		0 points
	Who the hell spends their time writing in Esperanto

	spelengwisird21:	Apr 1st, 2010 at 21:33 GMT		2 points
	Am I the only one who tried Kyrgyzstanian?

	Bulletchewer6:	Apr 3rd, 2010 at 00:10 GMT		1 point
	RRRRRR! No Pirate?

	gameboyguy13:	Apr 6th, 2010 at 11:48 GMT		2 points
	@karate02 @orbit Looks like the Chinese Wikipedia is mostly written in Mandarin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Wikipedia#Wikipedias_in_other_varieties_of_Chinese

	gameboyguy13:	Apr 6th, 2010 at 12:06 GMT		1 point
	Also, this quiz could use an update. The numbers have changed (understandably so, since it's been 5 months since the quiz was made) and Lithuanian and Hebrew have both passed the 100k mark. Bulgarian's is less than 200 away from 95k, so it'll probably be eligible soon as well.

	gameboyguy13:	Apr 6th, 2010 at 12:07 GMT		1 point
	@spelengwisird21 - Ha, but the Kirghiz Wikipedia only has about a thousand articles.

	WKS:	Apr 14th, 2010 at 00:29 GMT		1 point
	@gameboyguy13 yeah I was amazed at Hebrew not being there. also I'm surprised at Hindi not being over 100k o_o this is quite disproportional. I guess its a show of the people who bother with wikipedia or don't lol

	Delphion:	Apr 22nd, 2010 at 06:29 GMT		1 point
	More Polish than Japanese? More Dutch than Spanish and Portuguese? I'm also surprised there aren't so many articles in Arabic, since Arabic is one of the most spoken languages.

	jefrunner:	May 7th, 2010 at 01:40 GMT		1 point
	@WKS It's also testament to how bilingual certain groups are. I imagine a lot of Indian and Israeli wiki users just go with the English versions. I was surprised not to see Afrikaans, Swahili, Tagalog, Farsi, Thai, and Malay.

	steelwolf:	May 17th, 2010 at 16:29 GMT		1 point
	I typed in Australian at one point...I need more sleep.

	karate02:	Jul 14th, 2010 at 19:15 GMT		1 point
	@gameboyguy13 Thanks, I have updated the quiz.

	mukaltin:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 11:14 GMT		1 point
	Fix something with 'Herbew' please, I've entered it few times but it didn't work.

	professor88:	Jun 2nd, 2011 at 13:10 GMT		-1 points
	That's a good visualization for why Hindu/Urdu aren't counted as a "world language". -They're simply not globalized enough! The number of speakers alone doesn't make a "world language"

	jhsoby:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 10:44 GMT		1 point
	A lot has happened lately. Languages with 100k articles not on this list: Basque, Croatian, Hindi, Lithuanian, Malay, Persian/Farsi, Serbian, Slovene and Waray-Waray.

	PaulLambeth:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 04:20 GMT		3 points
	Please accept Slovene for Slovenian.

	giraki:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 02:58 GMT		1 point
	@Stewart: Funny, Ænglisc has 2.773 articles/0 speakers, I'm pretty sure that breaks Volapük's record. :P

	Fusty:	Mar 21st, 2013 at 22:13 GMT		1 point
	nucleolus101, I agree with you. Never heard of it. Is it a North American language? I'm guessing from Texas or Arizona.