Category Archives: Wikimedia Edit(or)s

Monthly edits on Wikimedia wikis still on the rise

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

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

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

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

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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