Wikimedia in figures Erik Zachte Aug 2009 ezachte@wikimedia.org http://infodisiac.com/blog
Wikistats Readers Editors
Wikistats stats.wikimedia.org
stats.wikimedia.org Totals & Trends Content Works Edit(or)s Readers Articles, words, links, bytes, images, templates, categories, aliases ... Edit(or)s Edits per article, per month? How many editors? How active? On what? Since when? Bots? Administrators? Readers How many? For what? How often? From where ? (ip → geo, asap) MaxMind
Wikistats Si nds 2003 stats.wikimedia.org since 2003 263 Wikipedias 170 Wiktionaries 120 Wikibooks 88 Wikiquotes 55 Wikisources 27 Wikinews 10 'Wikispecial' (commons, meta, etc) 11 Wikiversities ----+ 744 Wikimedia wikis
Wikistats 26 languages stats.wikimedia.org 26 languages
Wikistats portal 1.0
Wikistats Readers Editors
Metrics 2003-2004: Webalizer
End 2004: Webalizer burns out More traffic → More servers → Too much overhead
2004-2007: our daily dose of Alexa
2008: comScore donates free access 10 points for comScore!
2008: Squid logs User ↔ Squids ↔ Web Server Squids handle 80.000 server requests per second http://mituzas.lt/wikistats/ 50 Gb log per hour we keep 1/1000th sample 100 M log lines per day
wikistics.falsikon.de by Melancholie
Stu West: Sarah Palin 5th ? in August ?!?! vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv => O <= ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sarah Palin 5th ! in just 3 days !
Michael Jackson
H1N1 Flu
Wikipedia: 96% of total requests
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Do smaller Wikipedias catch up? http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
Wikipedia traffic follows weekly cycle
Visits to ar.wikipedia.org 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 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