Wikimedia Report Card October 2011

Synopsis

Detailed version     ⇒ Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns
Please keep in mind September has one day less than August, which effects some of the metrics.
Exception: page request counts are always normalized to 30 day months.
 Metric  Now 
10/11
 Yearly change 
10/10 ⇒ 10/11
 Monthly change 
9/11 ⇒ 10/11
 Notes 
Site Rank All5th    +0 +0 1
Reach All33.3    +2.0% +1.3%2
Unique Visitors All477 M+16.7% +4.9%3,4
Page Requests All16.8 B+15.6% +6.1%5
Binary Files Commons 11.6 M+52.0% +2.3% 
Article Count Wp 20.6 M+18.5% +1.8% 
New Articles Per Day Wp 11.5 k+45.3%+56.2%6
Edits Wp 11.4 M -1.1% +3.9% 
New Editors All 15.3 k -8.8% +0.4% 
Active Editors All 84.4 k +0.8% +1.4%7
Very Active Editors All 11.0 k -1.1% +1.9%7
 
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 Aug-Oct 08 -> avg Aug-Oct 11) pp= percentage points:
    Europe +9pp (35%->44%), North-Am +10pp (34%->44%), Asia +0pp (17%),
    Latin-America +6pp (39%->45%), Middle East-Africa +2pp (27%->29%),
    India +20pp (20%->35%), World +4.4pp (27.4%->31.8%)
Unique Visitors
3: 16% higher than average for last 12 months (412M).
    4.9% higher than previous month (which was also an all time high)
4: Change in UV's in 3 years: (avg Aug-Oct 08 -> avg Aug-Oct 11):
    Europe +74%, North-Am +46%, Latin-Am: +99%, Asia: +52%, World +70%
    India +167%, Middle East-Africa: +197%
Page Requests
5: Registration of mobile traffic for October has been incomplete due to technical problems.
    Reassesment may follow later.
New Articles Per Day
6: Strong growth in several wikis probably caused by bots
    (confirmed for Dutch Wikipedia, which created 90,000 taxonomy stubs).
(Very) Active Editors
7: Recent spike in (very) active editors on Commons probably caused by Wiki Loves Monuments project (temporary), but also by improved upload facilities (permanent).
All = All projects, Wp = Wikipedia project   /   B = billion, M = million, k = thousand

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