Hello, everyone! I present you the state of Lingua for September 2018.

In total this month, we published 542 posts, attracted 272,382 visits and 337,465 page views. Our collective Lingua Facebook pages’ fans reached 263,061 and 260,975 followers on Twitter. 

Here is a rundown of how all sites did in September.

Highlights

• “Flipboard have us 38% of Arabic Lingua traffic, the spike thanks to:
  • ‘Crimes of solidarity’ in Europe multiply as 11 stand trial in Belgium for helping migrants by Bouchra Laghzali
• This post increased our Italian Lingua traffic by 25%:
  • Saudi Arabia, a United Nations Human Rights Council Member, Continues Rights Crackdown by Maira Mohamed
• Claire Ulrich, our veteran Global Voices in French contributor, commemorated our late community member Boukary Konate, who died in September 2017.
• Arpan Rachman from Global Voices in Indonesian wrote about the Book Fair in Jakarta.
• We published a report about our cooperation with Meedan translating #RightsCon tweets.
• We started our GV Community Council process and introduced Issue papers 1 and 2..
• Kristina Edinger, GV Spanish into English translator, wrote a series of translation tips; Pretranslation and Context, Metalanguage and Word Order and Slang and Social Media

Top rankings for this months are:

Posts

Malagasy 172
Spanish 70
Italian 69
Russian 63
French 42

Traffic in page-views

Spanish 105,032
Portuguese 41,411
French 34,487
Japanese 26,919
Arabic 25,163

Facebook

Arabic ar 128,035
Chinese 42,285
Spanish es 19,647
French fr 17,493
Amharic am 8,885

Twitter

Chinese 178,115
Arabic ar 42,913
Bangla bn 7,847
Spanish es 7,529
French fr 5,535

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