Wikimedia in figures
Erik ZachteAug 2009 [email protected]://infodisiac.com/blog
Wikistats
Readers
Editors
stats.wikimedia.org Wikistats
stats.wikimedia.org
Totals & TrendsContent WorksArticles, words, links, bytes, images, templates, categories,
aliases ...
Edit(or)sEdits per article, per month? How many editors? How active?
On what? Since when? Bots? Administrators?
ReadersHow many? For what? How often?
From where ? (ip → geo, asap) MaxMind
263 Wikipedias170 Wiktionaries120 Wikibooks 88 Wikiquotes 55 Wikisources 27 Wikinews 10 'Wikispecial' (commons, meta, etc)
11 Wikiversities----+744 Wikimedia wikis
Si nds 2003 stats.wikimedia.org since 2003 Wikistats
26 languages stats.wikimedia.org 26 languages Wikistats
Wikistats portal 1.0
Wikistats
Readers
Editors
Metrics 2003-2004: Webalizer
End 2004: Webalizer burns outMore traffic → More servers → Too much overhead
2004-2007: our daily dose of Alexawikipedia.org britannica.com
2008: comScore donates free access
10 points for comScore!
World wide panel of 2 million users
Similar to TV view stats
2008: Squid logs● User ↔ Squids ↔ Web Server
● Squids handle 80.000 server requests per second
● http://mituzas.lt/wikistats/
50 Gb log per hourwe keep 1/1000th sample100 M log lines per day
wikistics.falsikon.de
by Melancholie
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv => O <= ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sarah Palin 5th ? in August ?!?! Stu West:
Sarah Palin 5th ! in just 3 days !
Michael Jackson
H1N1 Flu
Wikipedia: 96% of total requests
●
=>
Do smaller Wikipedias catch up?
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
Wikipedia traffic follows weekly cycle
+245 others
Arabic Wikipedia
Visits to ar.wikipedia.org as share of total ?
/ X 100%
Arabic Wikipedia
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=79404&d=19&m=3&y=2006
Wikistats
Readers
Editors
New editors 2006-2009 (10+ edits)
Wikipedia
Wikibooks
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Commons
Wikimedia projects got more editors or more page views. We can't have them both?
Measure participation per language
● Editors: current number ↔ potential● Which potential?
(1st + 2nd language speakers) * % web access ● Web access?
– Also internet cafe's , public places, schools!– Explosive growth in web access in 3rd world
● For now we use numbers of speakers only
Animatie
Questions ?http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/question