Category Archives: uncategorized

Wikimedia Usage Share By Browser

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

Posted in uncategorized | 1 Comment

Wikipedia is still Wikimedia’s largest project

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

Posted in uncategorized | 3 Comments

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

Posted in uncategorized | Leave a comment

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

Posted in uncategorized | 2 Comments

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

Posted in uncategorized | 25 Comments