Wikimedia Report Card March 2011

Synopsis

Detailed version     ⇒ Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns
Please keep in mind March counts 3 more days than February, which can explain some of the changes.
Exception: page request counts are always normalized to 30 day months.
 Metric  Now 
03/11
 Yearly change 
03/10 ⇒ 03/11
 Monthly change 
2/11 ⇒ 03/11
 Notes 
Site Rank All5th    +0 +0 1
Reach All29.6    -0.9% +1.3%2
Unique Visitors All400 M +7.9% +5.4%3,4
Page Requests All15.1 B +...% -2.5%4,5,6,7,8
Binary Files Commons 9.9 M+58.0% +5.5%9
Article Count Wp 18.4 M+19.7% +1.3% 
New Articles Per Day Wp 7.9 k +4.7% -4.3% 
Edits Wp 11.8 M -2.1% +7.4% 
New Editors All 17.5 k-13.9% +1.5%10
Active Editors All 89.9 k -3.1% +3.3% 
Very Active Editors All 11.3 k -3.7% +2.8% 
 
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.
Reach
2: Change in reach in 3 years: (avg Jan-Mar 08 -> avg Jan-Mar 11) pp= percentage points:
    Europe +5pp (39%->44%), North-Am +7pp (34%->41%), Asia -5pp (20%->15%),
    India +13pp (19%->32%), other regions +/- 2.5pp
Unique Visitors
3: Average for last 12 months 390M.
4: India, Latin America, Middle East consistenly show fastest growth in last year
Page Requests
4: Yearly growth unknown (data for March 2010 were incomplete)
    (April 2010 -> April 2011: page requests for non-mobile Wikipedia's -8%, but mobile
    almost made up for it, together -2.7%)
    we also have data feeds to other high profile sites, but no view stats for those
5: Page requests to mobile Wikipedia site in 4.1% of total Wikipedia requests (620M/14654M)
    (in April even 5.0%)
6: Total file requests from mobile devices for all Wikimedia projects in March: 6.6%
    See also Plot for both metrics.
7: Page views for Chinese Wikipedia went from 52M in January to 142M in March, (even 163M in April).
    Unique visitors from China stayed low as usual, even dropped 6% from January to March.
    (Chinese community said year ago they had issues with Google ranking, maybe these were fixed?)
8: Page requests have been normalized to 30 days (Jan*30/31, Feb*30/28, Mar*30/31, etc)
Commons Files
9: 20% growth in two months (8.3M -> 9.4M) due to a mass upload of Geograph images (Jan-Mar +1.6 M)
New Editors Per Month
10: English Wikipedia: March 2011 figure 11% less than in March 2010
    yet with 8120 best result in last 10 months (average last 12 months: 7805)
All = All projects, Wp = Wikipedia project   /   B = billion, M = million, k = thousand

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