Wikimedia Report Card October 2011

Published
December
2011
⇐ September Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns     ⇒ Synopsis November ⇒

Oct 2011: The WMF Report Card will be transformed into a more fully featured Dashboard, see this prototype.
Until then this legacy report will still appear quarterly. Next issue scheduled for Feb 2012, will cover 4th quarter of 2011.

Reach
 
477 million Unique Visitors for All Wikimedia Projects
Y 10/10⇒10/11 +16.7%
M 9/11⇒10/11 +4.9%
source: comScore ; UV = Unique Visitors in millions ; PR = Page Requests in billions    

16.8 billion Page Requests for All Wikimedia Projects
Y 10/10⇒10/11 +15.6%
M 9/11⇒10/11 +6.1%





Movers & Shakers in top 25 / September ⇒ October (click any table header to sort by that column)
Please keep in mind monthly changes are not normalized for length of month.
The effect of this shows particlarly in Jan ⇒ Feb and Feb ⇒ Mar.
Language +
Project
Page Views
(millions)   
Monthly (%)
9/11 ⇒ 10/11   
Yearly (%)
10/10 ⇒ 10/11   
Wk:Portuguese 387 374.5% 8212.7%
Wp:Arabic 80 36.6% 45.9%
Wp:Czech 75 24.1% 33.1%
Wp:Turkish 108 23.6% 36.9%
Wp:Vietnamese 48 22.9% 56.8%
Wk:English 100 21.6% 75.4%
Wp:Polish 437 21.5% 26.2%
Wp:Indonesian 71 15.2% 28.3%
Wp:Hungarian 50 13.7% 11.4%
Wp:Hebrew 51 13.5% 34.8%
Wp:Russian 726 13.2% 36.9%
Wp:Korean 55 12.6% 52.6%
Wp:French 733 11.9% 21.7%
Wp:Swedish 103 11.9% 16.5%
Wp:Dutch 192 11.1% 14.4%
Wx:Commons 266 8.6% 34.0%
Wp:Chinese 200 7.6% 310.3%
Wp:English 7434 7.3% -0.3%
Wp:Norwegian 48 7.1% 20.4%
Wp:German 1012 6.3% 2.5%
Wp:Spanish 1223 6.1% 17.3%
Wp:Finnish 69 5.3% 7.3%
Wp:Italian 487 3.4% 18.9%
Wp:Portuguese 394 3.4% 17.5%
Wp:Japanese 1219 1.6% 2.2%
source: Squid logs ; figures in millions ; / see also wikistats report

Wb:Wikibooks, Wk:Wiktionary, Wn:Wikinews, Wp:Wikipedia, Wq:Wikiquote, Ws: Wikisource, Wv:Wikiversity, Wx:special wiki

Jan 2011: Page request count does now also include traffic to mobile Wikipedia site
Due to server problems page view counts from squid logs for December 2009 - March 2010 are too low, estimated underreporting 10%-25%
source: Squid logs ; see also wikistats report
view counts for all months have been normalized to 30 days (Jan*30/31, Feb*30/28, Mar*30/31, etc), this mainly shows in Jan⇒Feb and Feb⇒Mar
5th in rank Web Properties - Unique Visitors
Y 10/10⇒10/11 +0
M 9/11⇒10/11 +0

source: comScore ; UV = Unique Visitors in millions
Content
 
11.6 million Binary Files
Y 10/10⇒10/11 +52.0%
M 9/11⇒10/11 +2.3%
source: Wikistats
20.6 million Wikipedia Articles
Y 10/10⇒10/11 +18.5%
M 9/11⇒10/11 +1.8%
source: Wikistats
Wikinews without Serbian (which is flooded by trivial bot updates)
11,519 New Wikipedia Articles Per Day
Y 10/10⇒10/11 +45.3%
M 9/11⇒10/11 +56.2%
source: Wikistats
11.4 million Wikipedia Edits Per Month
Y 10/10⇒10/11 -1.1%
M 9/11⇒10/11 +3.9%
source: Wikistats
Community
 
15,349 New Editors Per Month for All Wikimedia Projects
Y 10/10⇒10/11 -8.8%
M 9/11⇒10/11 +0.4%
source: Wikistats / Registered users with 10+ edits since their registration
84,426 Active Wikimedia Editors for All Wikimedia Projects (5+ edits per month)
Y 10/10⇒10/11 +0.8%
M 9/11⇒10/11 +1.4%
source: Wikistats / Bots and anonymous (or logged out) editing excluded
 Aug 2010: Editors on Commons are no longer included in overall total, on the assumption that most also edit on one or more other projects.
 More precise detection of double counts between any projects and languages is planned for late 2010 (using Single User Login registration).
11,008 Very Active Editors for All Wikimedia Projects (100+ edits per month)
Y 10/10⇒10/11 -1.1%
M 9/11⇒10/11 +1.9%
source: Wikistats / Bots and anonymous (or logged out) editing excluded
 Aug 2010: Editors on Commons are no longer included in overall total, on the assumption that most also edit on one or more other projects.
 More precise detection of double counts between any projects and languages is planned for late 2010 (using Single User Login registration).

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

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