{"id":445,"date":"2010-12-20T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitedexplanations.org\/?p=445"},"modified":"2013-04-09T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T13:11:01","slug":"1-billion-internet-users-are-english-or-chinese-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/2010\/12\/20\/1-billion-internet-users-are-english-or-chinese-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"1 billion internet users are English or Chinese speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedexplanations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/unexp_graphshot5_llt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-446\" title=\"Top 10 languages in the internet\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unitedexplanations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/unexp_graphshot5_llt.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/unexp_graphshot5_llt.jpg 550w, https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/unexp_graphshot5_llt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/unexp_graphshot5_llt-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>The chinese (and arabigan and russian) rise<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 30 June 2010 there were almost 2 billion internet users in the world. Half of them were\u00a0English\u00a0and\u00a0Chinese\u00a0speakers. China, as it happened in other fields such as economy, has been rapidly increasing its internet penetration in the country. As a result of that, the growth of\u00a0Chinese\u00a0language internet users has been exponential since year 2000, with an increase of 1,277%. It is also following this trend the Arabian (+2,500% increase) and\u00a0Russian\u00a0community(+1,825%). This means that\u00a0English\u00a0is &#8220;loosing terrain&#8221; in language presence in the internet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a missing 17,8% of users (350,5 million) who currently are surfing on the net and who speak a different language, not reflected in the graph.<\/p>\n<h4>Wikipedia (en) vs Hudong (cn)<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As an example of the evolution of the\u00a0Chinese\u00a0presence on the internet we can have a look on Wikipedia. Currently, Wikipedia has over 3,5 million articles written in\u00a0English.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hudong<\/a>, which means &#8220;interaction&#8221; in Chinese, the largest wiki-based encyclopedia in the language since its founding in 2005, is currently hosting over 4,7 million articles written in\u00a0Chinese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 June 2010 there where in the world almost 2 billion internet users. Half of them were english and chinese speakers. The rise of China in the internet has been exponential, with an increase of 1,277% between 2000 and 2010. Today chinese community is the second in importance on the net.<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/2010\/12\/20\/1-billion-internet-users-are-english-or-chinese-speakers\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,111],"tags":[103,31,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,112],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graphshot","category-society","tag-arabigan","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-english-2","tag-hudong","tag-internet","tag-internet-user","tag-language","tag-russian","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/4275577335_fe7db548cd_z.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7664,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/7664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}