Wikistats: Wikimedia Statistics

Monthly Report Card

A compact overview over recent trends.
All charts cover exactly one year.

Statistics per Wikimedia project

Detailed trends for each project.
Tables and charts cover the entire history.

Wikipedia

Wikibooks

Wikinews

Wikiquote

Wikisource

Wikiversity

Wiktionary

Wikispecial

Author:Erik Zachte (Web site)
Mail:ezachte@### (no spam: ### = wikimedia.org)
For documentation see meta. Scripts: scripts.zip
⇐ See also Blog on Wikimedia Statistics

Growth - Page Views - Server Requests - Edits - Traffic Surges - Bot Activity - Mailing Lists

Creation History - Recent Months - Current Status - Dumps - Categories - Wikibooks

Growth per Language Edition (animation)

These animations are pure javascript (html 5, canvas object) and require a modern browser
For other browsers there is a Flash recording

Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecial, Wiktionary

Page Views per Project

Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecial, Wiktionary
Also Summary for all projects

Wikipedia Page Views / Page Edits per Country / Language

Wikipedia Page Views / Page Edits per Country - Overview
Wikipedia Page Views / Page Edits per Country - Breakdown
Wikipedia Page Views / Page Edits per Country - Trends
Wikipedia Page Views / Page Edits per Language - Breakdown

Breakdown of Page Views for all Wikimedia Projects

Read more at my blog post Wikimedia Page Views

Server Requests

This analysis is based on a 1:1000 sampled server log (squids) ⇒ all counts x 1000.
How many files are requested each day? Breakdown by file type and target (sub)project
Where do those requests originate? Breakdown by file category and origin
Which HTTP requests are issued? Breakdown by type and results
Which scripts are invoked? Breakdown by type (css, javascript, php), name and parameters
Which skin files are downloaded and how often?
Which crawlers access our servers? Breakdown by host, file types requested, agent string
Which operating systems do our clients use? Breakdown by platform, mobile or not, release
Which browsers are how popular? Breakdown by brand, revision level, mobile or not
Breakdown of all traffic that Google send us: directly (crawlers) and indirectly (search results)

Page Edits & Reverts

Tables show edits and revert counts for registered and anonymous users, and bots

Charts show edit trends per language project, for same three classes of editors
plus revert trend for all classes combined

Tables and charts listed here link to more detailed pages, with extensive edit and
revert stats per language project, like this one for the English Wikipedia

Wikipedia Table & Charts / Wikibooks Table & Charts / Wikinews Table & Charts
Wikiquote Table & Charts / Wikisource Table & Charts / Wikiversity Table & Charts
Wiktionary Table & Charts / Other projects Table & Charts

Bot activity

Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecial, Wiktionary

Mailing Lists

Which Wikimedia mailing lists are frequently updated?
Which Wikimedia editors are most active and where ?

Creation History

Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecial, Wiktionary

Dumps

See also: Data gathering progress

Concise report

Original report

Wikibooks

Rankings (by size, edits, authors and chapter counts), Tables of Content, Chapter Sizes

Current Status

Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecial, Wiktionary

Overview Recent Months

Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecial, Wiktionary

Traffic surge I

More at my blog post Sarah Palin
See also blog post US presidential election 2008

Traffic surge II

More at my blog post H1N1 Flu or New Flu or …

Author:Erik Zachte (Web site)
Mail:ezachte@### (no spam: ### = wikimedia.org)
For documentation see meta. Scripts: scripts.zip
⇐ See also Blog on Wikimedia Statistics

See also popular statistics pages by other authors

S23 - Statistics about Mediawiki wikis

Screenshot edited for compact display

Basic set stats on lots of Mediawiki wikis, very up to date

Author User:Mutante

Author Henrik

Page Views - Wikirank

Comparing article views for the last 30, 60 or 90 days, based on dammit.lt files

Author Small Batch Inc

Log Analysis Oct 2007 - Dragons flight

Many charts: Edit rate - Edits per article - Revert rate - New articles,
new users, new administrators - Uploads and admin actions

Author Dragons flight

Editing Frequency on English Wikipedia

Author Dragons flight

Unique Visitors - @comScore Data on Wikimedia

Author Stu

Basic stats for all Wikipedias

Author Many wikipedians

Server Requests

Requests
hourly - daily - weekly - monthly - yearly
combi (new layout)

Traffic
hourly - daily - weekly - monthly - yearly

Author Mark Bergsma & Leon Weber

Wikipedia Categories Treemap

Interactive treemap visualizes breakdown of German Wikipedia by category.
Colors are based on number of articles or page views per category.

Author Björn Höhrmann

Biography Births and Deaths

How are Wikipedia biography articles distributed in the 20th century?

Author Carcharoth

AmalGLAMate

For donated images archives:

Total images in group on Commons
Distinct files used in projects (% of total images in group)
Total uses of files in projects (average uses per image)

Author Magnus Manske (see also other toys'n'tools by Magnus)

Wikisource ProofreadPage Statistics

This table shows the number of pages that have been proofread using the ProofreadPage
extension, at various Wikisource subdomains. It is updated daily.

Author ThomasV

Wikistats - Process - Data and Scripts - Florence N.

Enough tables, bar charts and plots to keep you busy for a while, available in:

Wikistats Process

Dumps

All Wikimedia wikis are exported on a regular basis to so called 'dumps'.
The 'full archive' version of the dumps for over 700 wikis is processed by Wikistats scripts.
Resulting counts are used to create reports in many languages (and are available for download).

Note: due to technical problems there has been no full archive dump for the English Wikipedia since
September 2006. Until this has been fixed wikistats data for this wiki will be incomplete.

Log files

All requests to Wikimedia servers are logged.
Mid 2009: 4,000 article requests per second, 70,000 file requests per second all in all.
From these logs page view counts are distilled.

Raw Data and Scripts

Raw data in csv format (can be imported in spreadsheet):
Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecial, Wiktionary

Perl scripts

Florence Nightingale

My first edit on the English Wikipedia (October 2002) was on statistics, namely the importance
of Florence Nightingale for the development of epidemiological statistics, and particularly her
usage of the polar diagram.

Author:Erik Zachte (Web site)
Mail:ezachte@### (no spam: ### = wikimedia.org)
For documentation see meta. Scripts: scripts.zip
⇐ See also Blog on Wikimedia Statistics

Site Maps - Overview of Regular Reports - Navigation Bars - Core Concepts

First time users please see core concepts below.

Report Card

The monthly Report Card offers a compact overview over recent trends.
All charts cover exactly one year. The Report Card comes in three layouts:

A detailed report with different views on the data behind tabs.
Most charts come in three variations:
- Absolute numbers on a linear scale
- Absolute numbers on a logarithmic scale
  This allows widely diverging values to appear in one chart, but makes growth curves less intuitive to interpret
- An indexed version, with allows comparison of relative growth trends: each line start at 100% for first month
A summary in one column for online browsing
A summary in two columns for printing on one large sheet (there is a link for print instructions)

Site Maps

For each Wikimedia project a site map lists all reports, tables and charts.

Site maps exists for these Wikimedia projects:

Wikipedia

Wikibooks

Wikinews

Wikiquote

Wikisource

Wikiversity

Wiktionary

Wikispecial

Overview of Regular Reports

The links below are examples only, and lead you to the German Wikipedia.

Tip 1: Choose site map above for full list of all languages
Tip 2: Switch between tables and charts, between languages or comparison reports with navigation bar, see below

Tables for each language project plus summary for all projects:

Language projects are sorted by popularity (views per hour)

Monthly counts & Quarterly rankings
Distribution of article edits
Most prolific active and inactive registered contributors, anonymous contributors and bots
Articles per size range
Records per namespace + Binaries
Most edited articles
Zeitgeist (per month top 25 articles with most editors)

Charts for each language project plus summary for all projects:

Wikimedians
Contributors - New Wikimedians - Active Wikimedians - Very Active Wikimedians
Articles
Count (official and alternate) - New articles per day - Edits per article - Bytes per article - Articles over 0.5 or 2 Kb
Database
Edits per month - Database size - Word count
Links
Internal - Interwiki - Binaries - External - Redirects

Tables plus Charts for comparisons between language projects:

Wikimedians / Editors
Contributors - New Wikimedians - Active and Very Active Wikimedians
Articles
Official Count - New Articles Per Day - Percentage Articles Over 0.5 Kb or 2 Kb Size
Edits
Mean Edits Per Article - Edits Per Period (table:month, chart:day)
Basic Counts
Data Base Size - Word Counts - Mean Bytes Per Article
Links
Internal - External - Inter Project - Redirects (aliasses) and
Referenced Binaries (images, sounds, movies)

See section Special Reports for other tables and charts listed on site maps

Navigation Bars

% ... Hide/show percentages
C ... Hide/show colors
Zoom - + ... Shrink or enlarge the table
Home ... Return to site map
Charts ... Switch to line chart (.png or .svg) and back
Table ... Switch to table and back
SVG ... Switch to scalable vector grahics
PNG ... Switch to bitmap
Active wikipedians ... Choose another comparison from list
German ... Choose another language from list
< > ... Move to previous or next language or comparison

Core Concepts

Contributors

Also called here wikipedians, wikireporters, wiktionarians, etc depending on the project)

Defined as registered users who edited 10 or more times since they arrived,
and thus showed at least a modicum of involvement at one point in time.

This number can only grow. The number is very inclusive. Compare (very) active users below.

(Very) Active Users

Contributors that edited at least 5 or 100 times in any given month
Note: charts show weekly data. Very active is then 25 edits or more per week

Bots

Mass edit tools, employed (semi-) automatically by registered users, for routine corrections and housekeeping.
Their contribution increased considerably over the years. Distinguishing between human editors and bots
has therefore become more and more urgent, and is now a work in progress. For example edit activity is now differentiated.

Author:Erik Zachte (Web site)
Mail:ezachte@### (no spam: ### = wikimedia.org)
For documentation see meta. Scripts: scripts.zip
⇐ See also Blog on Wikimedia Statistics