Wikimedia Report Card December 2011

Synopsis

Detailed version     ⇒ Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns
Please keep in mind December has one day more than November, which influences some of the metrics.
Exception: page request counts are always normalized to 30 day months.
 Metric  Now 
12/11
 Yearly change 
12/10 ⇒ 12/11
 Monthly change 
11/11 ⇒ 12/11
 Notes 
Site Rank All5th    +0 +0 1
Reach All31.7    +1.8% -1.3%2
Unique Visitors All457 M+15.6% -3.7%3,4
Page Requests All16.4 B+17.3% -6.1%5,6,7,8,9
Binary Files Commons 12.0 M+50.1% +1.8% 
Article Count Wp 20.8 M+18.6% +1.9%10
New Articles Per Day Wp 12.8 k+50.0%+67.2%10
Edits Wp 11.6 M +1.0% +4.7% 
New Editors All 15.2 k -9.1% -6.4% 
Active Editors All 83.3 k +1.6% +0.1% 
Very Active Editors All 11.0 k +2.7% +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 Oct-Dec 08 -> avg Oct-Dec 11) pp= percentage points:
    Europe +9pp, (38%->47%), North-Am +10pp (35%->45%), Asia +1pp (16%->18%),
    Latin-America +6pp (35%->41%), Middle East-Africa +2pp (30%->32%),
    India +16pp (20%->35%), World +4.8pp (27.8%->32.7%)
Unique Visitors
3: 8% higher than average for last 12 months (422M).
4: Change in UV's in 3 years: (avg Oct-Dec 08 -> avg Oct-Dec 11):
    Europe +68%, North-Am +46%, Latin-Am: +103%, Asia: +58%, World +69%
    India +164%, Middle East-Africa: +180%
Page Requests
5: Fastest and slowest growth in page requests in top 25 Wikipedias in 2011:
    Fast: Chinese +323%, Persian +114%, Ukranian +69%, Korean +65%, Arabic +43%,
               Indonesian +40%, Hebrew +40%, Russian +38%, Thai +35%, Commons +33%.
    Slow: Finnish +2%, Hungarian +5%.
6: Projects ranked by growth in page requests in 2011:
    Wikiquote: +127%, Wiktionary: +57%, Commons: +33%, Wikibooks: +26%, Wikisource: +23%,
    Wikipedia: +16%, Wikinews: +12%, Wikiversity: +5%
7: Numbers have been corrected for 88 hours of missing traffic data.
8: Wiktionary traffic back to normal after massive botnet spam in Oct/Nov.
9: Page requests have been normalized to 30 days (Jan*30/31, Feb*30/28, Mar*30/31, etc)
Article Count
10: Some Wikipedias contain massive amounts of bot created stubs,
    (e.g. Dutch Wikipedia 42% of total, Volapük 92% of total)
    which makes article count a questionable metric of community effort.
    see also new report on bot induced article creation activity per wiki.
New Articles Per Day
10: On Dutch Wikipedia Joopwikibot created roughly 164k of trivial taxonomy stubs in last 3 months.
All = All projects, Wp = Wikipedia project   /   B = billion, M = million, k = thousand

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