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Wikimedia Usage Share By Browser

Posted on Monday February 20, 2012 by Erik

The following breakdowns of non-mobile and mobile traffic are based on our squid logs. Note how share of mobile usage peaks every year around Christmas. Note how mobile here is to be taken as ‘traffic from mobile devices’ not as … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia is still Wikimedia’s largest project

Posted on Friday February 17, 2012 by Erik

Since early 2008 we publish traffic stats per Wikimedia wiki in detailed reports. In the past 4 years the relative proportion of page requests per project did not change much. All projects received more traffic, more or less in proportion to … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia Readers

Posted on Thursday February 9, 2012 by Erik

Two years ago Wikimedia board member Stu West published the first version of the map above. I was asked to produce an updated version for presentations. Countries are colored by monthly Wikipedia page views per internet user (2011 Q4). Overlayed on … Continue reading →

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Some SOPA blackout stats

Posted on Thursday January 26, 2012 by Erik

Here are a few plots and data I collected for the SOPA blackout from 18 January. Wikimedia Foundation is working on a wider coverage of the event. Note that on the second day hourly hits to Special:CongressLookup page exceeded hits … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia views visualized

Posted on Monday November 21, 2011 by Erik

In May 2011 I presented a new visualization tool which can playback all 400,000 Wikipedia edits for a random day, and show where and when these edits occurred, and for which language wiki. The tool also shows static maps for at-a-glance view … Continue reading →

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