Wikimedia Report Card February 2010

Synopsis

Detailed version     ⇒ Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns     ⇒ Errata
Please keep in mind February counts 3 days less than January.
The effect of this on monthly changes differs per metric.
 Metric  Now 
02/10
 Yearly change 
02/09 ⇒ 02/10
 Monthly change 
1/10 ⇒ 02/10
 Notes 
Unique Visitors345 M+14.8% -5.3%1
Page Requests11.1 B +5.8% +0.0%2,3
Site Rank5th    +0 +0 5
Commons Files6.2 M+58.3% +2.6%6
Article Count30.3 M+34.0% +1.9%7
New Articles Per Day7.6 k -5.7% -0.4% 
Edits11.5 M +7.1% -3.2%8
New Editors18.4 k-11.5%-10.8% 
Active Editors101.7 k +1.5% -4.6% 
Very Active Editors13.0 k +5.6% -5.4% 
 
Repeated observations are grayed
Unique Visitors
1: comScore reassesses online population in their target segments twice a year (Feb & Aug)
    This time estimate for Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam was lowered by -54%,
    resulting in a worldwide reassesment of online population of -4%
Page Requests
2:Corrected for length of months Jan -> Feb increase was actually +11.0% !
3:Russia maintains its steep growth: +57% in last 12 months, +137% in preceding 12 months
    Indonesia is 2nd, and speeding up: +46% in last 12 months, +34% before that
    German decline (-10%) is still atypical (caused by spike year ago after court decision)
Site Rank
5: 5th position will be stable for long time: differences with those ranked 4th and 6th are considerable.
Commons Files
6: Fastest riser (relatively speaking): ogg vorbis video, djvu (for scanned docs) also booming.
Article Count
7: 60% growth in Commons files in one year, English and French wiktionaries +36% through bots.
Edits
8: 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
B = billion, M = million, k = thousand

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