Wikimedia Report Card December 2009

Synopsis

Detailed version     ⇒ Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns     ⇒ Errata
 
 Metric  Now 
12/09
 Yearly change 
12/08 ⇒ 12/09
 Monthly change 
11/09 ⇒ 12/09
 Notes 
Unique Visitors347 M+27.1% +0.4%1,2
Page Requests10.4 B +0.0% -9.2%3
Site Rank5th    +0 +0 4
Commons Files5.7 M+55.1% +2.6%5
Article Count29.0 M+34.3% +2.1%6
New Articles Per Day7.5 k +7.7% +2.6%7
Edits10.8 M +0.6% +0.4%8
New Editors18.6 k -6.3% -2.4%9
Active Editors95.8 k +3.8% -0.4% 
Very Active Editors11.8 k +0.4% -0.5% 
 
Unique Visitors
1: Yearly growth in UV's (27%) exceeds growth of total internet (21%).
2: Conversation with comScore on huge monthly shifts in UV/Reach in 3rd world continues.
Page Requests
3: Same as last year: dip in page requests (but spike in image requests).
Site Rank
4: 5th position will be stable for long time: 4th has 35% more UV's, 6th 23% less.
Commons Files
5: Fastest riser (relatively speaking): ogg vorbis video, djvu (for scanned docs) also booming.
Article Count
6: 60% growth in Commons files in one year. Wiktionaries exploding through bots.
New Articles
7: Russian consistently fast riser, Ukranian growth 40% of previous months
Edits
8: Monthly edits for all Wikipedia's combined remarkably stable between 10 and 12 million
for 3 years now (as is the case for active and very active editors)
New Editors
9: Most mature Wikipedia's see least growth in editors. Largest influx: Russian / Commons
Unique Visitors
1: Yearly growth in UV's (27%) exceeds growth of total internet (21%).
2: Conversation with comScore on huge monthly shifts in UV/Reach in 3rd world continues.
Page Requests
3: Same as last year: dip in page requests (but spike in image requests).
Site Rank
4: 5th position will be stable for long time: 4th has 35% more UV's, 6th 23% less.
Commons Files
5: Fastest riser (relatively speaking): ogg vorbis video, djvu (for scanned docs) also booming.
Article Count
6: 60% growth in Commons files in one year. Wiktionaries exploding through bots.
New Articles
7: Russian consistently fast riser, Ukranian growth 40% of previous months
Edits
8: Monthly edits for all Wikipedia's combined remarkably stable between 10 and 12 million
for 3 years now (as is the case for active and very active editors)
New Editors
9: Most mature Wikipedia's see least growth in editors. Largest influx: Russian / Commons
B = billion, M = million, k = thousand

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