Wikimedia Report Card February 2012

Synopsis

Detailed version     ⇒ Summary, 1 column     ⇒ Summary, 2 columns
Please remember subsequent months can have a different number of days, which influences
monthly change percentages. Leap year February still has 7% less days than January

Exception: page request counts are always normalized to 30 day months.
 Metric  Now 
02/12
 Yearly change 
02/11 ⇒ 02/12
 Monthly change 
1/12 ⇒ 02/12
 Notes 
Site Rank All5th    +0 +0 1
Reach All32.8    +4.5% -0.4%2
Unique Visitors All476 M+25.4% -1.3%3,4
Page Requests All18.1 B+16.2% +0.4%5,6,7,8
Binary Files Commons 12.4 M+32.1% +1.5% 
Article Count Wp 21.2 M+18.5% +1.3%9
New Articles Per Day Wp 8.4 k -6.1%-36.7%9
Edits Wp 12.4 M -2.5% +6.8%10
New Editors All 15.3 k-14.7% -8.8%10
Active Editors All 85.2 k -1.7% -3.6%10
Very Active Editors All 10.9 k +0.0% -6.8%10
 
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 Dec-Feb 08/09 -> avg Dec-Feb 11/12) pp= percentage points:
    Europe +8.3pp, (38%->47%), North-Am +10.6pp (36%->46%), Asia +1.4pp (16%->18%),
    Latin-America +5.7pp (31%->37%), Middle East-Africa +3.1pp (29%->32%),
    India +15.1pp (20%->35%), World +4.8pp (27.8%->32.6%)
Unique Visitors
3: 9% higher than average for last 12 months (436M), even on the shortest month of the year.
4: Change in UV's in 3 years: (avg Dec-Feb 08/09 -> avg Dec-Feb 11/12):
    Europe +60%, North-Am +48%, Latin-Am: +98%, Asia: +53%, World +64%
    India +165%, Middle East-Africa: +149%
Page Requests
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)
Article Count, New Articles
9: Data for January (February will be added very soon)
Edits, New Editors, (Very)Active Editors
10: Provisionary data, final data will arrive soon (< 1 % change)
All = All projects, Wp = Wikipedia project   /   B = billion, M = million, k = thousand

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