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The reason of so many entries being made up of "Indian interests", is because the cheap internet provided by Reliance Jio.

Purely speculation on my part, but I have seen more internet presence of Indian public after Reliance Jio.

That and affordable or cheap even Android phones being easily available.

As there's 1.4 billion of us, it was bound to happen at some point, but I think Reliance Jio's cheap internet and easily available smartphones are the catalyst.

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Although Jio was the one to trigger a step change in pricing, other telecom players eventually had to offer data plans at competitive rates. I wouldn't attribute these numbers to Jio alone, instead to generally cheap internet in India

Yup, very much agreed, as I said Jio was the catalyst.

I wonder what the results would look like without the Great Firewall of China.

Not much different if you are still counting the English Wikipedia.

There are billion of people in China. If you grant only 0.1% of 1.4118 billion can speak and read English, that's 1,411,800 individuals.

However, if we take Wikipedia's claim at face value, it's actually ten million.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

'can speak and read a second language' doesn't mean they'd cause significant traffic to Wikipedia in that second language, that number would be some small fraction of that again.

Of course. It's the same reason why Global Worldwide top posts on Reddit overlap a lot with the Top posts for USA users.

Yeah

Jio only gained prominence in the early 2010s. While yes it did definitely help in getting more Indians access to cheap data plans, the country by and large has had a large English speaking population connected to the internet – enough to prominently show up on graphs – since well before that.

I would highly contest that. It's certainly not "The" reason, unless this is an advertisement. Jio is not even the cheapest option anymore in many places. I think your assessment is outdated. Indian people are at par with their Inrernet usage as the most of the world, it's just that there are a LOT of us in the world. That's "the" reason - Population.

The cost of my internet connection has little bearing on how much I browse Wikipedia.

Even YouTube I watch with little regard to internet cost, since on 144p it's only 100 MB for an hour of video. Obviously I do pay attention to the quality setting, because the bill can get huge fast if on HD!

Um, I think you need to rethink this comment bearing in mind that a large proportion of people in the world don't have the money for a monthly internet bill at all.

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