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From early days till 2008 web information company Alexa’s web traffic stats were almost exclusively relied on to rank the Wikimedia projects against other web properties. The rise of Wikipedia in the ranks from a top 100,000 to a top 10 position was closely monitored and documented in several Wikipedia articles, one of them being [...]

Ever heard of Sarah Palin? I bet you know a few things about her. I bet you did not one week ago. When senator John McCain announced she would be his running mate for the presidential election she was unknown to nearly everyone outside Alaska. Washington Post: “While Palin, pronounced PAY-lin, had been mentioned as [...]

Note: the low figures for March 3and 4 are an artifact: no data were collected for several hours on both days.
Since December 2007 all page requests to all Wikimedia projects are counted, and hourly totals per article title written to file, thanks to Domas Mituzas. The amount of data collected this way is huge: over [...]

Today I start my part-time (40%) job at the Wikimedia Foundation. In my capacity of Data Analyst I will, as Brion put it:  “continue to maintain and develop code to provide critical operational metrics about our projects. A key first project, for example, will be the integration of traffic statistics into the WikiStats package. [...]