Erik Zachte

My Wikipedia Projects

Infodisiac blog - Wikimedia in numbers

Animated growth figures per Wikimedia project

Wikipedia Encyclopedia on your handheld or notebook

Browse almost a million articles and 320,000 images on your handheld?
For several years now I produce this take-away full edition of Wikipedia.

Statistics for all Wikipedias

Enough tables, bar charts and plots to keep you busy for a while, available in:

A selection of scientific publications that elaborate on my statistics:

: From printed to "wikified" encyclopedias site / pdf
Sociological Aspects of an Incipient Cultural Revolution
Institute of Sociology at the University of Zurich
Prof. Hans Geser - Release 2.0, Feb 2007
: Informetrische Untersuchungen an der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia pdf
Magisterarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades
Magister Artium (M.A.) im Fach Bibliothekswissenschaft
Jakob Voß - 2005
: Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage
of Wikipedia and Its Authors pdf
Todd Holloway, et al - 2005

EasyTimeline for Historical Charts

Generate graphical timelines from a simple script.
You can then easily correct, extend or translate it.

Browse the huge repository at Wikipedia, or read the introduction first.

Integral part of Mediawiki, Wikipedia's code base, but it can be used stand-alone.

Category trees

These have now been integrated into the Wikimedia statistics pages.
Index pages: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikibooks and Wikispecial

Activity per Wikimedia mailing list

Which Wikimedia mailing lists are frequently updated?
Which Wikimedia editors are most active and where ?

Concise version of the Mediawiki dump progress report

My Presentations

Wikimania 2005:

The Grand Unified Timeline of Human History sheets and speaker notes (PDF).

Analysing and Visualising Wikipedia: annotated sheets (PDF)

Dutch Wikimedia Conference 2008:

Wikimedia becijferd (Wikimedia in figures): sheets (PDF)

Gallery of Wikipedia Main Pages

Screenshots of 230 Wikipedia 'Main Pages', reduced to 40% size (here 24%).
Most recently collected in August 2007 with url2bmp.exe (Windows freeware)
For the largest Wikipedias there are main pages from several years.
Warning: very large page (22 Mb)

Wikipedia says ...

Uncountable love (mp3, 72 secs)

more samples

August 2004 - ARD berichtet über Wikipedia

Windows Media Player / MPEG file (18 Mb)

August 2005 - 3SAT berichtet über Wikimania

Windows Media Player

Erik Zachte, Leiden, The Netherlands
Email: erikzachte@+++.com
(nospam: +++=infodisiac)

Unrelated:
My work at Rietveld Art Academy
Impressions of Saint Petersburg - June 2006
Remote Control Device Codes