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Author Archives: Erik
Variations on the English Wikipedia Main Page
The WMF servers receive a lot of unserviceable page requests. To illustrate this, with what most likely is an extreme example, here is a list of page requests received in July 2011, which target any article with a title starting with ‘Main_Page’. … Continue reading
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Saving lifetimes
One days Jobs came into the cubicle of Larry Kenyon, an engineer who was working on the Macintosh operating system, and complained that it was taking too long to boot up. Kenyon started to explain, but Job cut him off. … Continue reading
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Summary Reports for all Wikimedia Wikis
These weeks I am performing long overdue maintenance on Wikistats. This includes fixing bugs (e.g. Wikibooks en Wikiversity reports were broken for many months). This also includes automation, removing manual steps from the production process. I am also making good … Continue reading
Wikipedia Mobile Traffic II
Three months ago I blogged about mobile traffic to Wikipedia. I explained how we track two different metrics: on one hand traffic to our mobile site, on the other hand traffic from mobile devices (as detected from the so called … Continue reading
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Wikipedia edits visualized
Today I present a new animated visualization of Wikipedia edits. >> Animation << >> Screenshots << It shows all edit events for all Wikipedia’s on one random day. Currently this is 14 February 10 May 2011. On that particular … Continue reading
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