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Please remember subsequent months can have a different number of days, which influences
monthly change percentages. Non leap year February has 10% less days than January
Exception: page request counts are always normalized to 30 day months.
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| Metric | Now
01/12 | Yearly change
01/11 ⇒ 01/12 | Monthly change
12/11 ⇒ 01/12 | Notes |
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| Site Rank All | 5th | +0 | +0 | 1 |
| Reach All | 33.2 | +2.1% | +1.5% | 2 |
| Unique Visitors All | 482 M | +16.5% | +5.5% | 3,4 |
| Page Requests All | 18.1 B | +16.5% | +10.3% | 5,6,7,8 |
| Binary Files Commons | 12.2 M | +48.7% | +1.9% | |
| Article Count Wp | 21.2 M | +18.5% | +1.3% | 9 |
| New Articles Per Day Wp | 8.4 k | -6.1% | -36.7% | 10,11 |
| Edits Wp | 12.4 M | -2.5% | +6.8% | |
| New Editors All | 16.2 k | -16.0% | +2.1% | |
| Active Editors All | 88.5 k | -3.2% | +6.7% | |
| Very Active Editors All | 11.7 k | -0.5% | +6.3% | |
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| 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 Nov-Jan 08/09 -> avg Nov-Jan 11/12) pp= percentage points:
Europe +9pp, (38%->47%), North-Am +10pp (35%->45%), Asia +1pp (17%->18%),
Latin-America +6pp (32%->39%), Middle East-Africa +2pp (31%->32%),
India +15pp (20%->36%), World +4.7pp (27.9%->32.6%) | Unique Visitors
3: 13% higher than average for last 12 months (428M).
1.1% higher than previous record month Oct 2011
4: Change in UV's in 3 years: (avg Nov-Jan 11/12 -> avg Nov-Jan 11/12):
Europe +66%, North-Am +47%, Latin-Am: +105%, Asia: +54%, World +68%
India +157%, Middle East-Africa: +173% | Page Requests
5: 58% of page requests to all Wiktionaries combined came from one ip address,
which spammed Special:Random page on most languages.
6: 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%, see details
7: 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%, see details
8: Page requests have been normalized to 30 days (Jan*30/31, Feb*30/28, Mar*30/31, etc)
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9: 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: Sharp drop in overall number of new articles on all Wikipedias combined mostly due to bot inactivity
on Dutch Wikipedia, which in Dec accounted for 33% of all new articles.
11: Still this month the number of wikis with exceptionally large numbers of new articles rose sharply:
New articles per day for Dec->Jan: Slovene 33->312, Bashkir 4->308, Malagasy 3->232,
Latin 45->215, Armenian 31->123, Fiji Hindi 22->83
For comparison, two large Wikipedias with normal article creation rate: Russian 348, Spanish 285 | | All = All projects, Wp = Wikipedia project / B = billion, M = million, k = thousand |
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Author Erik Zachte - mail: ezachte@###.org (nospam: ###=wikimedia)
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