Please revise the graph and maybe the text as well.

The graph needs to clearly state what a "current user" is. That would presumably either be a reader, in which case it needs to state how "current reader" is defined (a unique visitor during a week or a month, for example), or an editor, in which case the number for the U.S. is clearly wrong (60 million people are not now currently editing; it's quite unlikely that 60 million people have cumulatively edited the English version of Wikipedia). [In Wikipedia, the term "user" is traditionally used for an editor, not a reader, by the way.]

Related to this, the text above the graph says The following graph shows that there are some key countries with a large online populations where Wikipedia still has significant room to increase the number of users and active participants. The graph could not possible be showing both, since it presents only two figures for each country, a "potential" and an "actual". The "actual" could be either "users" (readers?) or editors ("active participants"), but it can't be both. So unless the graph is significantly changed by adding a third figure for each country, the text also needs to be changed.

Both fair points, John. I'll ping Bridgespan about updating the graph.

Thanks for raising these issues with the graphic and text, John, we will revise to clarify. Our intent was just to focus on readers/visitors - probably confusing to use the term "users" given traditional terminology

Laura231 18:03, 16 December 2009 (UTC)