Wikimedia Report Card April 2010

Synopsis

Detailed version     ⇒ Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns     ⇒ Errata
 Metric  Now 
04/10
 Yearly change 
04/09 ⇒ 04/10
 Monthly change 
3/10 ⇒ 04/10
 Notes 
Unique Visitors375 M+17.1% +1.1%1,2
Page Requests11.7 B +7.4% -0.1%3,4
Site Rank5th    +0 +0 5
Commons Files 6.6 M+52.2% +3.3%6
Article Count 32.4 M+31.9% +2.3%7,8
New Articles Per Day 8.6 k+11.2%+12.9%9,10
Edits 12.1 M+11.6% +0.0%11,12
New Editors 18.8 k -8.2% -8.1% 
Active Editors 102.7 k +1.7% -1.8% 
Very Active Editors 13.1 k +3.4% -1.9%13
 
Repeated observations are grayed
Unique Visitors
1: 375M UV's beats last month's record with 4M or 1.1 % (matches overall internet growth).
2: Wikimedia projects reach 30.4 % of internet population, which is best reach for last year
    (avg 28.3%, low 25.7% in July 09). Reach in Asia lags behind other regions (15.9%)
Page Requests
3: Page requests are now normalized to 30 days (Jan*30/31, Feb*30/28, Mar*30/31, etc)
4: Traffic to mobile site not included. Expect this next month.
Site Rank
5: 5th position will be stable for long time: differences with those ranked 4th and 6th are considerable.
Commons Files
6: Fastest relative growth: tiff images (723%), ogg vorbis video (446%).
Article Count
7: Serbian Wikinews: 5k->36k in a year, compare English Wikinews: 15k->17k
8: Seven Wiktionaries in top 25 Wikimedia projects
New Articles Per Day
9: All wikinews project combined +240% (39->133 p/d), see below Serbian Wikinews
10:Waray-Waray Wikipedia 2nd fastest grower with +610 mostly geo stubs p/day by JinJian
Edits
11: 3 of 4 Wikinews monthly edits on Serbian Wikinews: 36k, English 5k, German/French 2k each
All Serbian Wikinews edits by weather bot that updates temp/wind speed every few seconds.
30 June 2010: report filed for runaway bot
12: Average monthly manual edits by registered users for all Wikipedia's combined, in millions
    2006 ⇒ 2010:   7.7 ⇒ 9.9 ⇒ 11.5 ⇒ 12.4 ⇒ 12.7
Very Active Editors
13: Ukrain +84% (61->112), Indonesian +180% (22->62) (during contest), Swedish -13% (141->122).
B = billion, M = million, k = thousand

Author Erik Zachte - mail: ezachte@###.org (nospam: ###=wikimedia)