Religion of Wikipedians

This made for an interesting study – updating an older graph, here is the breakdown of stated religion for English Wikipedians (from here and here):

Wikipedian religion – “Agnostic-Atheist” includes “Pastafarian”

For comparison, this is the same breakdown for the USA (from here). There are several noticeable differences:

USA religion

However, the differences do not entirely reflect non-USA contributions to the English Wikipedia. Here is the pie chart for the world as a whole (from here):

World religion

If we consider the average of the USA and the world as a whole (roughly the best-fitting linear combination), that differs in interesting ways as well. The Wikipedian data in the top pie chart had a lot more Pagans/Wiccans than this, for example:

Religion for average of USA and World

Update: fixed graph to properly count Wikipedia subcategories