Wikimedia Report Card March 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  03/10  Yearly change  03/09 ⇒ 03/10  Monthly change  2/10 ⇒ 03/10  Notes  Unique Visitors 371 M +13.3% +7.4% 1,2 Page Requests 11.7 B +0.3% +0.0% 3 Site Rank 5th    +0 +0 4 Commons Files data February! 6.2 M +58.3% +2.6% 5 Article Count data February! 30.3 M +34.0% +1.9% 6 New Articles Per Day data February! 7.6 k -5.7% -0.4%   Edits data February! 11.5 M +7.1% -3.2% 7 New Editors data February! 18.4 k -11.5% -10.8%   Active Editors data February! 101.7 k +1.5% -4.6%   Very Active Editors data February! 13.0 k +5.6% -5.4%     Repeated observations are grayed Unique Visitors 1: March has 3 more (11%) more days than February     This will explain much of apparently large monthly growth in visitors 2: All regions same of more unique visitors than year ago. North Am. +25%, Latin Am. + 27% Page Requests 3: Page requests are now normalized to 30 days (Jan*30/31, Feb*30/28, Mar*30/31, etc)     This way monthly changes are more meaningful     Difference with not normalized data is mainly visible in Jan⇒Feb and Feb⇒Mar Site Rank 4: 5th position will be stable for long time: differences with those ranked 4th and 6th are considerable. 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, English and French wiktionaries +36% through bots. Edits 7: 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)