Talk:Internet in Belgium

Focus of the article?
This article only seems to discuss consumer-oriented Internet providers. This is inconsistent with the title, which would suggest content like: History of Internet in Belgium, popularity / penetration, economic relevance, legislation/censorship of Internet, Internet providers, hosting companies, web design industry, education, etc. 217.136.82.136 (talk) 11:02, 10 March 2010 (UTC)


 * It took 3.5 years, but we've started to make some progress on expanding the article. Anyone have a source for the History of the Internet in Belgium? --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 03:48, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Internet in Belgium

 * This conversation started on my talk page, but I thought I'd move it here where more people might see it. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 17:40, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I saw your note with an edit to Internet in Belgium. I had looked at the spreadsheet and didn't see number of users or a way to figure the ranking for number of users. I'm curious how you got the figure. Did you cross reference that table with population data for all the countries to find the number of Internet users in each country? That sounds like a ton of work - there must be a better way. I'm wondering how you came up with the 8.6 million figure. I just ran the question on Wolfram Alpha and it gives a figure of 9.1 million also with 82%, but it doesn't explain the source of their figures so I wouldn't call it a reliable source. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity, SchreiberBike talk 02:59, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * The figures in the "Internet in Belgium" article (and a lot of other "Internet in xxxx" articles) comes from the List of countries by number of Internet users article. They use data from the ITU as a common source. The ITU gives a percentage as you saw. The total population for most countries comes from figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. And the rest is simple math. It is a bit of work, but not too bad since you can get the data into a common spreadsheet using copy and paste and matching the country names from the two sources can be automated too. There are two notes, one for the population column and one for the percentage column in the article that try to explain what was done and some additional information on the talk page. We try to use data from a single source (the ITU) for all countries and to update the figures for all countries at the same time so that the figures will be comparable. This has the side effect of only needing to be updated once a year since the ITU data is updated once a year. And that cuts down on the work a bit.

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 * --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 12:46, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your clear explanation. Seeing that you are using the figures for multiple countries' articles, that sounds like a good approach. SchreiberBike talk 17:32, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Added a lead section as an assignment for my Education Program:Louisiana State University/ENGL 2000: English Composition (Spring 2015). Zuz wiki (talk) 20:03, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

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