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Summary for 2005 Wikipedia

The year 2005, and the month of December, were both record-breaking for Wikipedia.

The English Wikipedia more than doubled its body of articles in 2005, to almost 900,000; just over 50,000 of these were added in December alone - the first time we've grown by 50,000 articles in a single month. The Wikipedia project as a whole added almost 1.8 million new articles in 201 languages, 200,000 of them in December. With the exception of September, when the Italians and Poles went on a bot-rampage, December was the first time that the project gained 200,000 new articles.

See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements

Wikipedia.org is more popular than...

Dec 2005: Large jump facilitated by extra server capacity and helped by a surge of publicity. Jumps are now much more apparent in reach and page views than in ranking, as that only goes up a few places now even if many more people visit. In December 2005 Wikipedia's pageviews per million share gained about 500 to 1,600 (meaning it was getting 0.16% of all pageviews recorded by Alexa), which was as much as its total score at around 31 March 2005, but its 3 month ranking improved just two places during the month.
Server capacity almost certainly remains the most important determinant of the timing of growth spurts. Whenever server capacity becomes a problem growth levels off. A good way to see this is to look at Alexa's "page views per user" measure. When it goes below four, a lot of people are giving up and cutting short their sessions, and little improvement in the ranking is likely until this is resolved. But Wikipedia's ranking is yet to show any signs of a long term levelling off. Reach more than quadrupled in 2005. Merely adding the same amount to reach in 2006 (which would be far slower growth in percentage terms) will probably be enough to take Wikipedia into the top 20 this year. If this happens it is likely to put Wikipedia consistently ahead of CNN and the BBC.

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-===Statistics on the projects in first trimester 2005===
+==Summary for 2005 Wikipedia==
+The year 2005, and the month of December, were both record-breaking for Wikipedia.
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+The English Wikipedia more than doubled its body of articles in 2005, to
-There are currently nine active Wikimedia projects.  "Language count" below refers to the number of languages with at least five articles.
+almost 900,000; just over 50,000 of these were added in December alone -
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+the first time we've grown by 50,000 articles in a single month. The
-* [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] (encyclopedia, since January 2001): 134 languages, 50,000 editors, 1.6M articles, 27M internal links <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm]</sup><br/>
+Wikipedia project as a whole added almost 1.8 million new articles in
-*:<small>[http://en.wikipedia.org English] : 6,000 users, 400K articles, 10% new users/month;<br/>[http://de.wikipedia.org German] : 2,000 users, 250K articles</small>
+languages, 200,000 of them in December. With the exception of
-* [http://www.wiktionary.org Wiktionary] (dictionary/thesaurus, since December 2002): 70 languages, 1,000 editors, 170K articles <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wiktionary/EN/Sitemap.htm]</sup>
+September, when the Italians and Poles went on a bot-rampage, December
-* [http://www.wikiquote.org Wikiquote] (quotation collection, since July 2003): 30 languages, 500 editors, 11K articles <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikiquote/EN/Sitemap.htm]</sup>
+was the first time that the project gained 200,000 new articles.
-* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal Wikibooks] (textbook/manual collection, since July 2003): 37 languages, 1100 editors, 12K articles <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikibooks/EN/Sitemap.htm]</sup>
-* [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikinews] (news portal, since November 2004):  11 languages, 290 editors, 3,200 articles <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikinews/EN/Sitemap.htm]</sup>
-* [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikisource] (primary source repository, since November 2003): 50 language portals, 300 editors, 15K articles/documents <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaSOURCES.htm]</sup>
-* [http://meta.wikimedia.org Meta] (Wikimedia coordination, since November 2001): 33 language portals, 800 editors, 3.2K articles <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaMETA.htm]</sup>
-* [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikicommons] (Media repository, since September 2004) : 520 editors, 8.4K articles, 60K media files <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaCOMMONS.htm]</sup>
-* [http://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikispecies] (Species directory, since September 2004) 42 editors, 2.8K articles <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaSPECIES.htm]</sup>
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+See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements
+==Wikipedia.org is more popular than...==
-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.
+Dec 2005: Large jump facilitated by extra server capacity and helped by a surge of publicity. Jumps are now much more apparent in reach and page views than in ranking, as that only goes up a few places now even if many more people visit. In December 2005 Wikipedia's pageviews per million share gained about 500 to 1,600 (meaning it was getting 0.16% of all pageviews recorded by Alexa), which was as much as its total score at around 31 March 2005, but its 3 month ranking improved just two places during the month.<br>
-'''New features:'''
+Server capacity almost certainly remains the most important determinant of the timing of growth spurts. Whenever server capacity becomes a problem growth levels off. A good way to see this is to look at Alexa's "page views per user" measure. When it goes below four, a lot of people are giving up and cutting short their sessions, and little improvement in the ranking is likely until this is resolved. But Wikipedia's ranking is yet to show any signs of a long term levelling off. Reach more than quadrupled in 2005. Merely adding the same amount to reach in 2006 (which would be far slower growth in percentage terms) will probably be enough to take Wikipedia into the top 20 this year. If this happens it is likely to put Wikipedia consistently ahead of CNN and the BBC.
+See more at [[m:Wikipedia.org is more popular than...]]
-[[Image:Propellors of an ATR-72 in flight.JPG|110px|right|Propellors of an ATR-72]]
+==Other interesting links==
-*Record counts per namespace: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#namespaces]
+*[[w:en:Wikipedia:Size comparisons]]
-*Percentage categorised articles (same url as above)
-*Hierarchical category trees per Wikipedia (some are huge!): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/CategoryOverviewIndex.htm]
+*http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TimeLinesIndex.htm
+* http://www2.knams.wikimedia.org/stats/
-*Overview for wikibooks: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikibooks/EN/WikiBookIndex.htm Chapters and counts per book]
+* http://www2.knams.wikimedia.org/country-stats/
+==Archives==
-[http://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."
+*[[/Archives 2005]]
+*[[/Archives 2004]]
-'''[[m:Wikipedia.org_is_more_popular_than...|Wikipedia is more popular than...]]'''<br/>
-According to Alexa Internet, as of March 2005, Wikipedia is more popular than [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=large&compare_sites=altavista.com&y=t&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top Altavista], [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=6m&size=large&compare_sites=wikipedia.org&y=t&url=excite.com Excite], [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=6m&size=large&compare_sites=walmart.com&y=t&url=wikipedia.org Walmart] and [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=6m&size=large&compare_sites=amazon.co.uk&y=t&url=wikipedia.org  Amazon UK]; it is on its way to overtaking [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=large&compare_sites=reference.com&y=t&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top Reference.com] and the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=nytimes.com&y=t&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F#top New York Times].
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