Wikimedia Report Card January 2012

 Published
March
2012
⇐ December ⇒ Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns     ⇒ Synopsis February ⇒
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 at least quarterly.
Reach
 
482 million Unique Visitors for All Wikimedia Projects
Y 1/11⇒1/12 +16.5%
M 12/11⇒1/12 +5.5%
source: comScore ; UV = Unique Visitors in millions ; PR = Page Requests in billions    
18.1 billion Page Requests for All Wikimedia Projects
Y 1/11⇒1/12 +16.5%
M 12/11⇒1/12 +10.3%





Movers & Shakers in top 25 / December ⇒ January (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 (%)
12/11 ⇒ 1/12   		 Yearly (%)
1/11 ⇒ 1/12   
Wk:French 47 44.7% 90.5%
Wk:English 90 22.2% 32.2%
Wp:Czech 88 21.1% 23.8%
Wp:Spanish 1035 15.1% 18.9%
Wp:German 1192 14.9% 3.2%
Wp:Japanese 1439 14.8% 16.9%
Wp:Italian 536 14.7% 10.8%
Wp:Hungarian 50 12.9% 1.0%
Wp:Dutch 204 11.9% 11.4%
Wp:Indonesian 74 10.7% 30.6%
Wp:Thai 50 10.5% 33.4%
Wp:Norwegian 47 10.4% 5.7%
Wp:French 791 9.4% 13.5%
Wx:Commons 274 9.2% 38.1%
Wp:English 8577 7.9% 8.8%
Wp:Russian 872 7.6% 35.5%
Wp:Polish 485 7.3% 21.4%
Wp:Finnish 68 6.7% -2.4%
Wp:Swedish 113 4.9% 16.6%
Wp:Hebrew 55 4.3% 31.7%
Wp:Korean 67 2.1% 59.2%
Wp:Turkish 115 -0.2% 24.8%
Wp:Portuguese 329 -0.3% 11.8%
Wp:Chinese 214 -1.9% 316.6%
Wp:Arabic 74 -7.0% 47.3%
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 1/11⇒1/12 +0
M 12/11⇒1/12 +0

source: comScore ; UV = Unique Visitors in millions
Content
 
12.2 million Binary Files
Y 1/11⇒1/12 +48.7%
M 12/11⇒1/12 +1.9%
source: Wikistats
21.2 million Wikipedia Articles
Y 1/11⇒1/12 +18.5%
M 12/11⇒1/12 +1.3%
source: Wikistats
Wikinews without Serbian (which is flooded by trivial bot updates)
8,449 New Wikipedia Articles Per Day
Y 1/11⇒1/12 -6.1%
M 12/11⇒1/12 -36.7%
source: Wikistats
12.4 million Wikipedia Edits Per Month
Y 1/11⇒1/12 -2.5%
M 12/11⇒1/12 +6.8%
source: Wikistats
Community
 
16,170 New Editors Per Month for All Wikimedia Projects
Y 1/11⇒1/12 -16.0%
M 12/11⇒1/12 +2.1%
source: Wikistats / Registered users with 10+ edits since their registration
88,548 Active Wikimedia Editors for All Wikimedia Projects (5+ edits per month)
Y 1/11⇒1/12 -3.2%
M 12/11⇒1/12 +6.7%
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).
11,730 Very Active Editors for All Wikimedia Projects (100+ edits per month)
Y 1/11⇒1/12 -0.5%
M 12/11⇒1/12 +6.3%
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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