Statistics/Archives 2005

Statistics on the projects in first trimester 2005
There are currently nine active Wikimedia projects. "Language count" below refers to the number of languages with at least five articles.
 * Wikipedia (encyclopedia, since January 2001): 134 languages, 50,000 editors, 1.6M articles, 27M internal links [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm]
 * [//en.wikipedia.org English] : 6,000 users, 400K articles, 10% new users/month; German : 2,000 users, 250K articles
 * Wiktionary (dictionary/thesaurus, since December 2002): 70 languages, 1,000 editors, 170K articles [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wiktionary/EN/Sitemap.htm]
 * Wikiquote (quotation collection, since July 2003): 30 languages, 500 editors, 11K articles [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikiquote/EN/Sitemap.htm]
 * Wikibooks (textbook/manual collection, since July 2003): 37 languages, 1100 editors, 12K articles [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikibooks/EN/Sitemap.htm]
 * Wikinews (news portal, since November 2004): 11 languages, 290 editors, 3,200 articles [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikinews/EN/Sitemap.htm]
 * [//wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikisource] (primary source repository, since November 2003): 50 language portals, 300 editors, 15K articles/documents [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaSOURCES.htm]
 * Meta (Wikimedia coordination, since November 2001): 33 language portals, 800 editors, 3.2K articles [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaMETA.htm]
 * Wikicommons (Media repository, since September 2004) : 520 editors, 8.4K articles, 60K media files [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaCOMMONS.htm]
 * Wikispecies (Species directory, since September 2004) 42 editors, 2.8K articles [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaSPECIES.htm]

New statistic features
This quarter, a much awaited new statistics feature has been announced by Erik Zachte. It took a couple of weekends to get the scripts up to date for the new database format. The layout has been improved in some places, with newest statistics showing up on top, and language names in comparison tables.




 * Record counts per namespace: [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#namespaces]
 * Percentage categorised articles (same url as above)
 * Hierarchical category trees per Wikipedia (some are huge!): [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/CategoryOverviewIndex.htm]
 * Overview for wikibooks: [//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikibooks/EN/WikiBookIndex.htm Chapters and counts per book]

[//en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TimeLinesIndex.htm EasyTimeline charts] are collected for each Wikipedia language, and listed together with the script code. This may serve as a source of inspiration to help learn the syntax. This can also help find real gems on other Wikipedias that deserve to be translated. While starting a timeline from scratch is not trivial, expanding, correcting or translating an existing chart is indeed "easy."

Wikipedia is more popular than... update
Wikipedia is more popular than... According to Alexa Internet, as of March 2005, Wikipedia is more popular than Altavista, Excite, Walmart and Amazon UK; it is on its way to overtaking Reference.com and the New York Times.

Stats per countries
Kate wrote: > webalizer statistics and access breakdowns by country are now available for > all Wikimedia projects: > > * http://www2.knams.wikimedia.org/stats/ > * http://www2.knams.wikimedia.org/country-stats/

This is a table of the 31 highest-pageview countries, but sorted on a per-capita basis, using population figures from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population

It's a little hard to read here in plain text, but there are some interesting things to observe. First, as I have personally felt for a long time, Wikipedia is most popular (per capita) in German-speaking countries. In Germany, for example, there were .3749 pageviews per person (for whatever time period Kate studied, a day?), as compared to .2519 in the United States.

--Jimbo (sitting in Germany at the moment)

CH     SWITZERLAND     3257554 1.50%   7,489,370       0.434957012 DE     GERMANY 30918990        14.60%  82,468,000      0.37492106 AT     AUSTRIA 2597402 1.20%   8,184,691       0.317348816 FI     FINLAND 1497528 0.70%   5,223,442       0.286693717 IL     ISRAEL  1736050 0.80%   6,276,883       0.276578359 CA     CANADA  8732647 4.10%   32,805,401      0.266195405 NL     NETHERLANDS     4132982 1.90%   16,407,491      0.251896039 US     UNITED STATES   67764804        31.90%  296,202,709     0.228778475 JP     JAPAN   25753169        12.10%  127,333,002     0.202250545 SE     SWEDEN  1814517 0.90%   9,001,774       0.201573268 SG     SINGAPORE       764117  0.40%   4,425,720       0.172653715 BE     BELGIUM 1762902 0.80%   10,364,388      0.170092243 NO     NORWAY  758707  0.40%   4,593,041       0.165186202 AU     AUSTRALIA       2927652 1.40%   20,090,437      0.145723659 UK     UNITED KINGDOM  7746798 3.70%   60,441,457      0.128170272 FR     FRANCE  7241067 3.40%   60,424,213      0.119837175 DK     DENMARK 630803  0.30%   5,432,335       0.116120048 HK     HONG KONG       779969  0.40%   6,898,686       0.113060516 PL     POLAND  4327531 2.00%   38,635,144      0.112010221 PT     PORTUGAL        966668  0.50%   10,566,212      0.091486713 CL     CHILE   1239153 0.60%   16,136,137      0.076793659 IT     ITALY   4139186 2.00%   58,103,033      0.071238725 ES     SPAIN   2587800 1.20%   43,209,511      0.059889592 PE     PERU    1649896 0.80%   27,925,628      0.059081787 MY     MALAYSIA        880847  0.40%   23,953,136      0.036773765 AR     ARGENTINA       1432035 0.70%   39,537,943      0.036219259 MX     MEXICO  2594245 1.20%   106,202,903     0.024427251 PH     PHILIPPINES     1674005 0.80%   87,857,473      0.019053644 BR     BRAZIL  3353760 1.60%   186,112,794     0.01802004 CN     CHINA   2498070 1.20%   1,306,313,812   0.001912305 IN     INDIA   1400545 0.70%   1,080,264,388   0.001296484