Category Archives: Wikimedia Edit(or)s

Wikistats upgraded to new page view definition

Posted on Thursday December 3, 2015 by Erik

tl;dr New and upgraded Wikistats data files, reports and charts, with cleaner metrics. Recently Wikimedia Foundation has upgraded its data feeds for hourly page view counts, using a new definition which excludes crawler traffic. These new data are now available from … Continue reading →

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2014

Posted on Monday December 1, 2014 by Erik

Here are results of Wiki Loves Monument (WLM) 2014 contest. Some charts are about image uploads. Some about image uploaders, also known as contributors. Countries With 41 participating countries, 11 less than in 2013, that is again an awesome achievement. … Continue reading →

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Total editors on Wikipedia compared with same on all Wikimedia wikis

Posted on Monday December 2, 2013 by Erik
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2010-2012 – Retention / Stats per Country

Posted on Saturday June 22, 2013 by Erik

A few weeks ago, at the Amsterdam Hackaton, Lodewijk Gelauff (aka Effeietsanders) asked me to look into the Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) data and provide a list of images, who uploaded them, when, and for which country. Primary goal: to … Continue reading →

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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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Growth in article count at largest 20 Wikipedias

Posted on Friday August 31, 2012 by Erik

There is a lot of variation in article growth rate among mature Wikipedias. Growth slows down at some, is steady or even accelerates at others. Many have tried to model these trends. I have little to offer in explanation but … Continue reading →

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Summary Reports for all Wikimedia Wikis

Posted on Friday September 23, 2011 by Erik

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 →

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Wikipedia page edits, a global perspective

Posted on Tuesday September 7, 2010 by Erik

In January 2010 I published reports on the global distribution of Wikipedia page views. The reports have different aggregation levels: by country or by language,  yearly average or quarterly trends. A week ago I published a similar set of reports … Continue reading →

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Wikistats reports on article revert trends

Posted on Sunday August 1, 2010 by Erik

At Wikimania Gdansk I talked about the newest addition to Wikistats: article revert trends. This week the new set of tables and charts has been released for almost 800 Wikimedia wikis. For example here is the report for the English … Continue reading →

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Edit Trends per Wikimedia Project

Posted on Saturday April 24, 2010 by Erik

The two charts below show the trend in number of edits per month, first for the German Wikipedia, then for all Wikipedias combined. The blue lines show us that since early 2007 the monthly volume of manual edits by registered … Continue reading →

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