Wikimedia Report Card February 2011

Synopsis

Detailed version     ⇒ Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns
Please keep in mind drop in most metrics is always to be expected for February, with only 28 days.
Exception: page request counts are always normalized to 30 day months.
 Metric  Now 
02/11
 Yearly change 
02/10 ⇒ 02/11
 Monthly change 
1/11 ⇒ 02/11
 Notes 
Site Rank All5th    +0 +0 1
Reach All28.3    -1.0% -1.8% 
Unique Visitors All379 M +9.9% -8.3%2,3
Page Requests All15.5 B +...% +1.8%4,5,6,7
Binary Files Commons 9.4 M+54.0%+14.2%8
Article Count Wp 18.1 M+19.9% +1.3% 
New Articles Per Day Wp 8.2 k+12.0% -9.4% 
Edits Wp 11.0 M -2.8%-13.7% 
New Editors All 16.5 k-10.5% -9.8% 
Active Editors All 87.1 k -0.4% -4.8% 
Very Active Editors All 11.0 k -1.2% -7.1% 
 
Repeated observations below are grayed
Site Rank
1: 5th position will be stable for long time: differences with those ranked 4th and 6th are considerable.
Unique Visitors
2: Average for last 12 months 388M.
3: India, Latin America, Miiddle East consistenly show fastest growth
Page Requests
4: Page requests to mobile Wikipedia site in Feb: 4.6% of total Wikipedia requests (690M/14981M)
5: Total file requests from mobile devices for all Wikimedia projects in Feb: 6.8%
    See also Plot for both metrics.
6: Yearly growth can not be established, due to considerable underreporting from Dec 09 till Mar 10
7: Page requests have been normalized to 30 days (Jan*30/31, Feb*30/28, Mar*30/31, etc)
Commons Files
8: 14% growth in one month (8.3M -> 9.4M) due to a mass upload of Geograph images (Feb/Mar 1.8 M)
All = All projects, Wp = Wikipedia project   /   B = billion, M = million, k = thousand

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