Archive:Statistics
Statistics on the projects in first trimester 2005
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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 [1]
- Wiktionary (dictionary/thesaurus, since December 2002): 70 languages, 1,000 editors, 170K articles [2]
- Wikiquote (quotation collection, since July 2003): 30 languages, 500 editors, 11K articles [3]
- Wikibooks (textbook/manual collection, since July 2003): 37 languages, 1100 editors, 12K articles [4]
- Wikinews (news portal, since November 2004): 11 languages, 290 editors, 3,200 articles [5]
- Wikisource (primary source repository, since November 2003): 50 language portals, 300 editors, 15K articles/documents [6]
- Meta (Wikimedia coordination, since November 2001): 33 language portals, 800 editors, 3.2K articles [7]
- Wikicommons (Media repository, since September 2004) : 520 editors, 8.4K articles, 60K media files [8]
- Wikispecies (Species directory, since September 2004) 42 editors, 2.8K articles [9]
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.
New features:
- Record counts per namespace: [10]
- Percentage categorised articles (same url as above)
- Hierarchical category trees per Wikipedia (some are huge!): [11]
- Overview for wikibooks: Chapters and counts per book
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...
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.