Category Archives: Nice Charts

Monthly edits on Wikimedia wikis still on the rise

Posted on Saturday March 9, 2013 by Erik

This chart shows that the overall volume of manual edits by registered users on all Wikimedia wikis combined is still increasing, slowly but steadily. When we substract rookie edits (arbitrarily set to first 100) the rise of highly effective edits … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia page reads, breakdown by region

Posted on Thursday November 15, 2012 by Erik

As we know in some regions of the world people have more easily access to Wikipedia than in others. The majority of reads come from the so called Global North (*). Now is this unbalance between North and South diminishing? Not … Continue reading →

Posted in Nice Charts, Wikimedia View(er)s, Wikistats Reports | 1 Comment

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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