What Were Global Voices’ Readers up to Last Week? · Global Voices
L. Finch

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At Global Voices, our community researches, writes, edits, and translates stories with a mission to support human rights and build bridges of understanding across countries, cultures, and languages.
We don't publish just to grab clicks or follow a news trend. We do, however, like to keep track of the ways in which our hard work has impact around the world.
To that end, one useful metric is how readers respond to our stories and translations. So let's take a look at who our readers were and what caught their attention during the week of March 12-18, 2018.
Last week, our stories and translations attracted readers from 208 countries! The top 20 countries represented across all of Global Voices’ sites were:
1. United States
2. Brazil
3. France
4. Mexico
5. Japan
6. Spain
7. Peru
8. Colombia
9. United Kingdom
10. Italy
11. Germany
12. Taiwan
13. Philippines
14. Russia
15. India
16. Bangladesh
17. Canada
18. Argentina
19. Indonesia
20. Madagascar
But that's only a small slice of the diversity of our readership. Let's use the True Random Number Generator from Random.org and take a look at a few other countries on the list:
187. Sierra Leone
207. Turks & Caicos Islands
180. Monaco
99. Ghana
176. Belize
The English-language site is where the majority of original content is first published at Global Voices. The top five most-read stories of last week were:
1. Trinidadian Man Transforms Pothole Into a Hot Tub in Humorously Effective Protest
2. City Councillor and Leading Rights Activist Shot Dead in Downtown Rio de Janeiro
3. Citizenship, Surveillance and Taxes: A Dystopian Tale
4. From Graffiti to Politics, Anti-Semitic and Neo-Nazi Speech Is Becoming More Visible in Eastern Europe
5. Is Censorship Coming Back to Tunisia? Court Order Bans ‘Blue Whale’ Online Game
Lingua is a project that translates Global Voices stories into languages other than English. There are about 30 active Lingua sites. Below is last week's most-read story or translation on each active language site.