Wikipedia statistics by Wikiregion

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Until now, most Wikipedia statistics have dealt either with the growth of the project as a whole or with individual language Wikipedias in relation to each other. This page seeks to group together Wikipedias into "Wikiregions", which are mostly based on geographical borders. The Wikipedias can be divided into the following "Wikiregions":

• English Wikiregion - a separate Wikiregion due to the size of the English Wikipedia and also because English is such a global language that it doesn't have any geographical boundaries anymore. Wikipedias included: English, Simple English

• Western European Wikiregion - includes French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Luxembourgian, Welsh, Walloon, Frisian, Asturian, Low Saxon, Irish, Alemannic, Basque, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Sicilian, Aragonese, Occitan, Breton, Limburgish, Corsican, Rhaeto-Romance, Sardinian, Maltese and Manx Gaelic. French is included here because many of the contributors on the French Wikipedia are from France, although the language is also spoken in Africa and Canada in large proportions.

• Northern European Wikiregion - includes Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Estonian, Nynorsk, Lithuanian, Icelandic, Latvian, Faeroese, Northern Sami and Greenlandic.

• Central and Eastern European Wikiregion - includes German, Polish, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Serbian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovak, Kashubian, Greek, Belarusian, Albanian, Macedonian and Aromanian.

• East Asian Wikiregion - includes Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Chinese. It doesn't mean each of those languages are linguistically related to another.

• South Asian Wikiregion -

• Southeast Asian Wikiregion -

• Middle Eastern, North African and Central Asian Wikiregion -

• Central and Southern African Wikiregion -

• American Wikiregion - English and French are included in the English and Western European wikiregions respectively. South American languages Spanish and Portugese are also included in the Western European Wikiregion. Indigenous languages are not included in the Indigenous American Wikiregion.

• Indigenous American Wikiregion -

• Constructed and non-contemporary languages Wikiregion - includes Esperanto, Interlingua, Intelingue, Ido, Volapük, Toki Pona, Lojban, Klingon, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Gothic,

Articles

As of December 31, 2004, the Wikiregions have the following amount of articles:

English	447,452
Western European	254,692
Northern European	120,522
Central & Eastern European	320,937 (without German = 134,003)